I have fond memories of reading them when I was younger, but as I think about introducing them to kids I have some thoughts and issues:
- The clear colonial bias - Narnia needing white British rulers to thrive.
- Colorism/Xenophobia/Racism in the Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle.
Do the benefits of a neat magical fantasy world outweigh the issues? How would you approach it?
just because everyone is hating on them i gotta say they are GOOD books in terms of quality but yeah they are racist sexist trash but uhg i loved them so much and i loved the magic. like if we are comparing them to say, harry potter theres no contest. but thats also trash.... the bar is in hell for that age range.
Yeah, I'd like to have a little library of cool chapter books for when they hit the right age, but a lot of the stuff I liked growing up isn't great.