Elf Sternberg

Maybe they're right. I didn't get as much out of the movie as I expected, but my going-on-8 niece thinks it's the bomb. I got her the "real" book for Christmas. I couldn't believe her parents bought her one of those dumbed-down picture books. We should have a bedtime reading.

On the other hand, children need such things, too. I remember being a baby-geek (and didn't even know I was, therefore, nearly complete alienation from my peer group) and how those books excited my imagination, and made me wonder about motivations, and understand consequences, and that sort of thing.

Lewis himself says in the introduction that they're written for children. And, as for the movie, I'm waiting for the sequels.