By C.S. Lewis
All seven Narnia books in one slipcased box, a whole world to step into, from its first morning to its very last day.
Four children step through the back of a wardrobe into Narnia, a land held under a Witch's endless winter, where a great lion named Aslan is on the move. That is only the first book. This box holds all seven, following Narnia from the morning it was sung into being to the day it ends. There is a boy and a talking flying horse, a voyage to the edge of the world aboard the Dawn Treader, a mouse braver than anyone, a lost prince trapped deep underground, and battles for the throne. Pauline Baynes drew Narnia when Lewis first wrote it, and this set carries her pictures in full color.
Seven stories a child can live inside for a year of bedtimes and then keep and re-read for years after. Lewis tells them with a storyteller's warmth, talking straight to your child, and Pauline Baynes' pictures are the ones the stories were born with. It suits a child ready for a real fantasy world who does not want it to end after a single book. One thing worth knowing going in: these are Christian stories under the adventure, and Aslan's death and return echoes Easter on purpose, something some families love it for and others simply like to know.