The witch, in an unusual nostrils-up pose, pointing at an offscreen Edmund as if to say “And what, pray, are you?” as the dwarf pulls back the reins in surprise. A lot of action and attitude packed into one pic. Note the artist’s good use of black, white and red which differs from the usual …
Category: Fantasy
New Narnia Book Covers by Owen Richardson
Late to the party here, but I thought I’d post these new Harper Collins Narnia book covers by artist Owen Richardson. They came out in April 2025 for the 75th Anniversary of the publication of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, considered the birth of the series. They are for the hardback versions of …
Jadis and Her Sleigh, Part 2
Let’s look at some more depictions of the White Witch — Jadis — riding in her sleigh. This one, by Laura B. Hallett, is a doozy of bizarreness. The runners seem to be made of mammoth tusks, which seems appropriate for Narnia in its frozen state, and there’s two bald dwarves, a wolf in a …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 6/25/25: Narnia Big Cat Names (Narnia LIX)
Though C. S. Lewis apparently had a hatred for small cats (look at Ginger’s fate in The Last Battle) he admired the larger species. Aslan was a lion, after all, and his attendants were leopards, panthers, and other (unnamed) species of big cats; a cat-a-mount is mentioned as being one of the statues in the …
Narnia French Editions, 1973
Last year I posted these two interesting French editions of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian from the early 1950s. Back then foreign publishers, once they acquired the rights, usually had their own artists create the covers, likely because it was too much bother to ship over the original artwork and …