Which C.S. Lewis book was adapted into the 1956 film The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?

The 1956 film The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was adapted from C.S. Lewis’s book of the same title. The novel was first published in 1950 and introduced readers to the fictional land of Narnia through the wardrobe in the country house.

The story follows the four Pevensie children—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy—after Lucy discovers Narnia. Its plot includes the White Witch, the lion Aslan, the stone table, and the children’s role in Narnia’s conflict. The book became the most widely known entry point into Lewis’s Narnia fiction.

The 1956 production was a television adaptation rather than the later large-scale cinema film series. The BBC produced several television adaptations of Narnia stories in later decades, while a major film version of this novel appeared in 2005.

Readers sometimes confuse the book’s publication order with the internal chronological order of the Narnia series. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was the first Narnia book published, although later editions often number The Magician’s Nephew first chronologically.