The Artist Behind Narnia: Pauline Baynes

From winter classrooms to magical worlds, rediscovering the artist who opened the wardrobe to Narnia and A Giant under the Snow

Illustration by Pauline Baynes of Lucy and the Faun, from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. Illustration copyright © 1950, 1998 by C.S. Lewis Pte. Ltd.

Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again C.S.Lewis

When I was a child, Mrs Green would read to us in class at the end of lessons each Friday afternoon. She began …