A lyrical nonfiction picture book about the inspired life of C. S. Lewis, the beloved author of the Chronicles of Narnia-from Free as a Bird author-illustrator Lina Maslo. Perfect for fans of The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown and Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White. As a child, Clive Staples Lewis imagined many things . . . heroic animals and knights in armor and a faraway land called Boxen. He even thought of a new name for himself-at four years old, he decided he was more of a Jack. As he grew up, though, Jack found that the real world was not as just as the one in his imagination. No magic could heal the sick or stop a war, and a bully's words could pierce as sharply as a sword. So Jack withdrew into books and eventually became a well-known author for adults. But he never forgot the epic tales of his boyhood, and one day a young girl's question about an old family wardrobe inspired him to write a children's story about a world hidden beyond its fur coats . . . a world of fauns and queens and a lion named Aslan. A world of battles between good and evil, where people learned courage and love and forgiveness. A magical realm called Narnia. And the books he would write about this kingdom would change his life and that of children the world over. Share this magical nonfiction picture book at home or in the classroom.
Portrait of author/educator C.S. Lewis
"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." Created on Day Seventeen of the Design Across America Zerflin tour. Quote submitted by Bill Jancewicz. Font by RAW inc at www.hearusraw.com/ My father originally submitted the quote “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”, and attributed to C.S. Lewis. However, once the drawing was done and I began researching the origins of the quote, I came upon an article that went into fine detail explaining that, in fact, C.S. Lewis had never said it, but that George Macdonald (minister and author of At The Back of the North Wind), who Lewis admired, said it. Fortunately, my father is a great lover of C.S. Lewis' writings, and submitted the above quote as well. The earliest version of that one is attributed to Lewis as "Recalled on his death 22 Nov 63" in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (1988), compiled by James B. Simpson. You can find out more about the tour here: zerflin.com/2012/05/31/2-festivals-20-cities-20-days-desi...
Kevin DeYoung has a good post today on what made C.S. Lewis’s writing style so effective and memorable. I thought it might be helpful to repost a couple of comments containing Lewis’s counsel on writing well. C.S. Lewis’s last interview was on May 7, 1963—six months before he died. One of Sherwood Wirt’s questions was on writing: “How would you suggest a young Christian writer go about developing a style?” Lewis responded: The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly...
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” —C. S. Lewis [tweetbutton] [facebook_ilike]
The author CS Lewis loved reading his translation of Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid to fellow Oxford-based writers, including JRR Tolkien, at the Inklings, the famous informal literary discussion group they both frequented.
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly called C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was a novelist, poet,...
Title: Chronicles of Wonder: The Story-Formed Life of C. S. Lewis - Tales of Boldness and Faith - Book 2 By: Leah Boden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Vendor: Moody Publishers Publication Date: 2025 Dimensions: 8.00 X 5.25 X 0.40 (inches) Weight: 2 pounds ISBN: 080243360X ISBN-13: 9780802433602 Stock No: WW433604
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It's a Thursday evening in 1936. Clive Staples Lewis (known to all his friends as "Jack") is hosting a gathering of that well-known literary group, The Inklings. Among the regulars are his brother Warnie, J. R. R. Tolkien, Neville Coghill, Hugo Dyson and Adam Fox. Two visitors are also attending - Jack's old pupil Tom Morris and an undergraduate named Auberon Willesden. The following morning Willesden is found murdered in his room in Magdalen, though both the door and the windows were locked from the inside. And not only has he been murdered: he has been beheaded - and the head is missing! Who killed the student? And why? And, more baffling still - how was it done? It's a puzzle that will tax the brilliant ingenuity of Jack and his fellow Inklings to the limit. Praise for The Corpse in the Cellar: 'A satisfying, many-faceted piece of holiday reading.' Methodist Recorder 'Charming.' The Tablet
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