Reading...and then watching

A few months back we read The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe.

I wasn't too sure at the time whether Nathan was that interested in listening to me read it. I didn't receive many questions nor much feedback about it. I thought perhaps it was a bit too old for him with some of the concepts (and the fact that we are not Christian meant that I wasn't able to relate the story back the bible since he doesn't know a lot about that at the moment - except for the "old book" that's on our bookshelf). The language was a little more advanced that usual, but he didn't question me.

However, we decided to get the movie version "Narnia" out last weekend and did a homemade-pizza-in-front-of-a-movie-night. I was interested to note that he was able to recall what was coming up next and looked forward to the story unfolding (as well as what special items Peter, Susan and Lucy received). So while he may not have appeared to have absorbed the story - it seems he did.

After the movie was over he was watching the "making of the movie" scene and I explained that the people were actors and those were their jobs. He then wanted to make a movie so we got our my digital camera and made a few short clips.

Discussions were also had about WWII (why kids were sent out to the country, where were the dads, why the mums stayed in the city) - I don't recall the book focusing so much on the story being set during WWII, but the movie has a reasonably graphic night scene with aeroplanes bombing the children's house.

Interestingly as well, the movie was watched every day for about 3 days and hasn't been touched since (well, it seems I've spoken too soon as since I'm sitting here quietly typing this up he's popped the DVD in the player lol).