2020 is an interesting year for a lot of reasons.
And one of them is that
it's exactly 70 years since my stepfather, 
C.S. Lewis - better known as "Jack"
and J.R.R. Tolkien - otherwise known as "Tollars"
sat down and had a discussion about children's 
literature that was being produced in those days.
They found that they both agreed that children's 
literature of that time was not good enough for children.
It didn't say the things that children needed to hear.
And it didn't say the things that children would like to hear and enjoy.
So they both decided they would sit down
and have a go at writing a children's story.
The end result from Tolkien was Bilbo Baggins of course.
And that led onto The Lord of the Rings and all that stuff.
Jack, on the other hand, wrote something very different.
He mixed all sorts of wild and
interesting fictional characters.
People like fauns and dragons and people like that.
Mixed them all together with animals and so forth
and produced Narnia.
'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'
is 70 years old in this year.
To celebrate this amazing year...
NarniaWeb.com is producing a short video
to celebrate and to let people know a bit more - 
I think - about Narnia and how it came to be.
So, I'll tell you what I'd like to do.
I'd like to ask you to send in a clip of yourself reading from 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.'
To participate in this amusing and interesting idea,
All you have to do is go to NarniaWeb.com
and follow the instructions. It's as simple as that.
