title: Lucy Steps Through the Wardrobe
author: C. S. Lewis
description: Kindergarten-Grade 4. The main question one must ask is why these picture-book renditions of C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe are needed. The stories are adapted, simplified, and boxed on each page, with full-color, double-page spreads done in a painterly, realistic technique. These illustrations are given more importance than the texts, which provide just the bare bones of the plot. However, the pictures, as well executed as they are, nevertheless constrain the imagination. And the narratives pale as introductions to Lewis's exquisite prose and his much greater ability to tell a story with subtlety, symbolism, and nuance. Audio versions of Lewis's originals are far better choices, especially for those unable to take on Lewis's prose so early in their reading careers.?Ruth K. MacDonald, Bay Path College, Longmeadow, MA<br />Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  EDMUND AND THE WARDROBE:
  
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  ## CHAPTER THREE
  
  Lucy ran out of the empty room into the passage and found the other three.  
    
  "It's all right," she repeated, "I've comeback."  
    
  "What on earth are you talking about, Lucy?" asked Susan.  
    
  "Why? said Lucy in amazement, "haven't you all been wondering where I was?"  
    
  "So you've been hiding, have you?" said Peter. "Poor old Lu, hiding and nobody
  noticed! You'll have to hide longer than that if you want people to start
  looking for you."  
    
  "But I've been away for hours and hours," said Lucy.  
    
  The others all stared at one another.  
    
  "Batty!" said Edmund, tapping his head. "Quite batty."  
    
  "What do you mean, Lu?" asked Peter.  
    
  "What I said," answered Lucy. "It was just after breakfast when I went into
  the wardrobe, and I've been away for hours and h