The evening before we left on a roadtrip to Montana, I downloaded the whole series. Surely it will come in handy! It did, as we finished reading Swallows and Amazons on the way there, and this one provided a story for the way home. The buddies and Evy were quite young when we last read this, so the fantastical tale of the children and the rings and the creation of Narnia was practically new to them. (Gabe and his sharp memory had. held on to much of the story.) I always love Cabby Frank rising to the occasion as King!
(Note: We have read the whole series to the kids - and then some - in the original publication order. That is my preferred order, especially as a first reading. But I think we might pick these ones up on roadtrips and such at random, or maybe even go in chronological order this time around, since all of us are very familiar with the world of Narnia already, thanks to our previous reads and the three wonderful movies.)
