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# On C S Lewis
- URL: https://goodoil.news/on-c-s-lewis/
- Published: 2025-09-24T00:30:45.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-24T00:30:44.000Z
- Description: If all NZ children could – and would – read the seven books of the Chronicles of Narnia... it would be hard to say we have a literacy crisis.
- Author: Reproduced with permission
- Tags: Books, Education, History

[**Alwyn Poole**](https://alwynpoole.substack.com/p/on-cs-lewis)  
*Began teaching in 1991\. TBC, HBHS, St Cuths. Founded/led Mt Hobson MS–18 years. Co-founded SAMS and MSWA. Econs degree, Masters in Edn, tchg dip, post grad dip – sport.*

C S Lewis is truly one of the most remarkable and influential intellects of the 20th century – as was George MacDonald in the century before him.

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Lewis regarded MacDonald as his ‘master’ – high praise indeed when he got to sit across the table and share a beer with Tolkien weekly.

This piece is interesting and inspiring – and I assume Greta Gerwig’s Narnia Films: [https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/20-09-2025/an-ode-to-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe](https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/20-09-2025/an-ode-to-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe?ref=goodoil.news)

Anyone who can read the series and finish *The Last Battle* without tears has a cold heart indeed.

If all NZ children could – and would – read the seven books of the Chronicles of Narnia... it would be hard to say we have a LITERACY CRISIS.

This article was originally published by [Education – the Absolute Best Ways](https://alwynpoole.substack.com/p/on-cs-lewis).