Kathryn, even by the straitjacket standards of the Huffington Post that made strange reading. The suggestion that a contest involving reading The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is an attempt to “push Christian dogma on Florida schoolchildren” is simply nuts. Yes, it’s true that the book, like the others in the Narnia series, has elements of Christian allegory, but so what? They make for a rattling good yarn (here I could go all Joseph Campbell, but won’t) and, in any event, their specifically Christian nature will pass over the heads of many of its young readers. I can remember reading – and loving – those books myself when I was around ten, as fantasy and myth, nothing more. As for those readers that doget the message, they can then choose to accept it, reject it or ignore it. That’s a process that’s called ‘learning’, something that may be difficult for the Narnia critics to understand. The notion that these young readers might somehow be sneakily indoctrinated by Aslan makes not much more sense than the idea that D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths (a recommended selection, I note, for Florida’s Middle School children) will turn those kids into followers of Jupiter, Apollo and Hera.