A wardrobe transports the children into Narnia in C.S. Lewis’s first-published Narnia book.
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lucy Pevensie discovers that an ordinary wardrobe opens into the snowy woodland of Narnia. Her siblings initially doubt her account, but the wardrobe becomes the doorway through which all four Pevensie children enter the other world.
The wardrobe is one of the most recognizable portals in children’s fantasy. It is not a magical object explained through a detailed mechanical system; its mystery is part of the fairy-tale design. The story’s setting also connects with the children’s wartime evacuation from London, placing an extraordinary passage into an otherwise familiar household world.