![]() ![]() Listen: Rosamund Barraclough braves the fearsome heffalumps to step into the world of AA Milne for The Essay. This was the tree that inspired every child who read about it to yearn for their very own slippery-slip – a marvellous slide that takes the user all the way to ground level via a trapdoor in Moonface’s circular treehouse room. Is there anything more nostalgic than the whispering of Enid Blyton’s Enchanted Wood? This beloved series, dating back to the 1940s, follows the adventures of three children, Jo, Bessie and Fanny, who venture into the woods near their home and discover The Magic Faraway Tree. – Enid Blyton, The Magic Faraway Tree (1943) The Enchanted Wood loomed up big and dark. ![]() The series prequel, The Magician’s Nephew, sees Digory and Polly stumble into the magical Wood between the World, an eerie place that enables travel between our world and countless others including Narnia and the desolate, forbidding Charn. Those frozen trees aren't the only woods to feature in the Narnia universe. We discover that the White Witch has cast a spell to make it “always winter, but never Christmas”, preventing the growth of a magical tree that would topple her cruel reign. But here, when Lucy first enters Narnian forest through the back of the wardrobe in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, she finds its branches blanketed in snow and ice. In later books, CS Lewis’ Narnia is a lushly forested idyll. ![]()
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