The Magician's Nephew

Its place in The Chronicles of Narnia

The Magician's Nephew is book 6 in the The Chronicles of Narnia series. It follows The Horse and His Boy. It is followed by The Last Battle. See the full The Chronicles of Narnia reading order.

Four English siblings step through the back of an old wardrobe into Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter under the White Witch's rule -- and find themselves swept into a war for the country's soul alongside Aslan, the great lion who is Narnia's true king. That's just the opening novel; across seven books, C.S. Lewis sends different children (and, once, two unlucky adults) into Narnia across its history, from the world's magical creation to its final ending, encountering talking animals, ancient prophecies…