The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Spendless

Does anyone know if I can either get a larger print or an abridged version of this book?My 5 year old is pestering me to buy it, but since he's only just coming to grips with his key words, it's going to be a long time before he can read this.I have pointed this out and told him it's a reading age of 9-12 years but he wants me to read him a little bit each night. I don't want to discourage him as it's the first time he has ever shown an interest in a book, and it's the book he's asking for, not asking to go and see the Disney film. I just think I might struggle reading aloud each night from a paper back in standard print and I'm bothered about him being put off.

wigginsmum

How about an audiobook version? You can sit and listen together.

Jules

Spendless

wigginsmum wrote:

How about an audiobook version? You can sit and listen together.

Jules

Can I just buy that seperately? We saw the Chronicles of Narnia in a bookshop this week. It was £55 eek!!

wigginsmum

Have a look here at Amazon

Jules

stressedoutmum

The Chronicles of Narnia book set (about 7 books I think) is either £6.99 or £7.99 in World Books - one of the cheapie book shops in town. The same one is selling for almost £30 in some of the major bookshops!

black-saturn

Theres a nice selection of Narnia books and picture books in WHSmiths at the moment.

Pooky

I've just pm'd you about this spendless

Louiseuk25

I have the Audio CD that came free with the Daily Telegraph the other week (abridged version read by jim broadbent-40 mins long). PM your details and I will happily post it to you at no cost.

Lou

crutches

there are free books (film spinoffs not the narnia real ones just short tales ) in cereal packets(shreddies?).that would be a cheap alternative?

Miss_Behaving

Hi, I began reading this book to my son when he was about 5 - my husband and I must have read it to him at least 9 times as it was his favourite book for ages! Every night we read a little of the book, explaining any of the words he didn't know, and he never got tired of listening to it. It remains one of his favourites (he's 12 now) and he still remembers us reading it to him. My advice would be to give it a go - if he's that keen the story will hold his attention.
HTH
Sharon

jellyhead

saw a few versions in WHSmiths at the weekend. my boy is 9 so he had a peek at the abridged versions but chose the full version. there were a few that some year 1 children would be okay with, or would at least enjoy having read to them.

i'm a big fan of audiobooks, they really help with attention span and listening skills. no substitute for reading to your child, but they can have both :-)

spud regularly giggles his head off to lemony snicket audiobooks, i can't really compete with stephen fry or tim curry when it comes to reading aloud. we buy the audiobooks mainly for car journeys. couldn't read to him, i'd be sick. the horrible history freebies have been great.