When he was six years old, C. S. Lewis moved to Little Lea, an expansive house that his father had built on the outskirts of Belfast. In that same year, his only brother Warnie left for boarding school in England. “Jack” Lewis lived as if he were an only child in Little Lea, often cabined hiding from the Ulster rain. It was this that drove him to read deeply in his father’s books and illustrate stories about a place he called Animal-Land, where mice were knights who rode out to fight cats. This house had a large oaken wardrobe, made by his grandfather, and which is now preserved at Wheaton College — as a kind of evangelical literary relic.
Many readers will have already noticed (or already known) that the also begin with siblings exploring a rambling house on a rainy day that left them bored. The beloved children’s book series has been adapted to film several times and will receive yet another adaptation, with an improbably progressive rock soundtrack, directed by .
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