Could you conduct a survey to find out your friends favourite animals and show the results in different types of table / graph? It was finding the right balance of the big cinema "no-no", which is that screens on screens is not good. Or my brothers and I would go down to the river below the dam wall, a long walk away, beyond the edge of town. My par­ents didn’t want to push me to talk about it until I was ready, and apparently I didn’t show many signs that I gave it much thought. When Lucy gets back and tells her three siblings about her adventure in Narnia, none of them believes her – although Edmund, intrigued, follows her into the wardrobe when she goes back there and finds himself in Narnia, where he meets the White Witch.

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Actress Natalie Cassidy reads extracts from 'The Butterfly Lion' by Michael Morpurgo, and illustrated by Christian Birmingham. Since publication his books continue to be bestsellers and have been published in multiple overseas territories. Through the window, as well as some gaps in the familiar crumbling brick wall, I can see into the tiny room my family shared, the ceiling only a little higher than my head. When I got home my mother was happy I had brought some toma­toes to eat, but furious I had lost my blanket in the process. Like a lot of kids in the neighbourhood, my brothers and I got creative about finding things to eat.S. Lewis didn’t regard them as allegory: ‘In reality,’ he wrote, Aslan ‘is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, “What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia, and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours? I can still feel the icy chill of panic that hit me when I real­ised I was trapped – a feeling of being weak, hyperactive and incredulous, all in one. An incredible story of how one boy survived and prevailed through extreme circumstances to change his fortunes. Soon after arriving there, she (quite literally) bumps into a faun (half-man, half-goat) named Mr Tumnus, who takes her to his house and gives her tea while he tells her about the land she has wandered into.

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I don’t know if Guddu was having second thoughts about letting me come, but I was starting to feel a bit guilty, because my mother usually needed me to babysit Shekila while she was at work, and I didn’t know when I’d be back. Long before I could read them, I knew that the immense V of the Indian subcontinent was a place teeming with cities and towns, with deserts and mountains, rivers and for­ests – the Ganges, the Himalayas, tigers, gods! The relationship with the technology was instigated by a purely and deeply emotional drive and desire to make it to the end of the myth – to find wholeness with the reunification with the lost mother and to find out who you are. She had to teach me what the map represented – I was completely unedu­cated and don’t think I even knew what a map was, let alone the shape of India. But the watermelons were very large and I was still small, and, struggling with the first one, I wasn’t able to keep track of the heavy traffic.

Beeing blind after accedent, the descriptions in Wilbur’s books create the most wonderful pictures and images in my head. She suggested that together we draw a map of the place I was from, and as she drew I pointed out where my fam­ily’s home was on our street, which way you went to walk to the river where all the kids played, and where the bridge was under which you walked to get to the train station. The four Pevensie children have grown into young adults, and have been Kings and Queens of Narnia (reigning jointly) for many years. The picture book finishes with 'Yes, that day they BOTH learned that, no matter your size, We all have a mouse AND a lion inside'. As well as my mother and my baby sister, there were also my older brothers, Guddu and Kallu, whom I loved and looked up to.