At our household we are nearing the completion of reading The Hobbit (just two chapters left!). Last year we read some of C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis described reading George MacDonald’s fantasies as a baptism of his imagination, and I hope the same proves true for our kids. N.D. Wilson and Andrew Peterson are two young, contemporary writers deeply influenced by Tolkien and Lewis. If you’re looking for books to read aloud, or to have your kids read—or simply to “awaken your…
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