If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself. - Lloyd Alexander

Like his fellow genius, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis has redefined the nature of fantasy, adding richness beauty, and dimension... In our times, every fantasy realm must be measured in comparison with Narnia.

The thing that is maybe the real difference, the fundamental difference, is that in adult literature you can have a literature of despair and end the work without any hope; you can have a literature of the absurd in which life is pointless, meaningless...In children's literature you can have a tragic ending...nevertheless, maybe what happens makes some kind of sense; maybe there is hope. We have got to pull out of ourselves some kind of hope. This is the key difference between writing for adults and children.

I know it isn't nice to vex people on purpose — it's like handing them a toad — but this is much too good to miss and I may never have another chance at it.