We’ve been reading the The Chronicles of Narnia at bedtime, which inspired me to take this picture as a play suggestion with Ostheimer figures. It turns out that I’m not the only one with this idea: a customer told me the other day that her kids always refer to the Ostheimer lion as “Aslan”. It is a wonderful thing about these toys, that they really can reflect what children are reading or thinking, while inspiring them to create their own scenes and stories.

So far we have read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and we are pages away from finishing Prince Caspian. I prefer to read them in what I remember as the old order, and I think that these two, along with The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, are the most gripping for younger children. Will we see the new movie when it is released? I’m not sure–one of us will vet it first, and see whether the story transferred to screen is too much. But if we do go, I am happy that they have already formed their own ideas of Narnia and its inhabitants, and will not encounter it first as someone else’s vision.

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