The Magicians Nephew

This book starts off with two young children, Polly and Digory. Who have just became friends because Digory and his sick mother had to move in next door with his Aunt and Uncle because Digory’s father went to work overseas. They start playing together daily and become great friends.
The action of this story starts when Polly shows Digory her special place through the attic. It’s a cool place where she could keep tings, like her story she was writing. But the thing that Digory liked most about it was that you could walk from there to the other people’s attics. It was a tunnel between the houses. As soon as Digory finds that out, he wants to go explore and go to other people’s houses.
They try to sneak into this house that was apparently empty, but they miscounted their steps and end up walking into Digory’s uncle Andrew’s attic. I know normally that that wouldn’t be such a big deal, but Digory was told to never go into the attic, and Uncle Andrew was kind of weird. The attic was a furnished, very homey room. Polly and Digory walk in and Polly notice these gold and green rings, beautiful rings that sounded like they were humming. After they are both inside the room, Digory’s uncle walks up and lock the door to the rest of the house and shuts the door that Polly and Digory cam in through. Uncle Andrew talks to Polly and Digory about how he tested his experiments on guinea pigs and all, but the problem was that you couldn’t teach the hamsters to come back. He is kind of scaring Polly and Digory, finally they are able to leave because they said that they had to go to super. Uncle Andrew offers Polly a gold ring before she leaves, immediately, Polly accepts because she thought they were beautiful. Right when she touches a ring, she disappears. Then Uncle Andrew tells Digory how they are related to a fairy godmother, and that he made those rings out of dust that was in a box the fairy godmother told uncle Andrew to burn after she died. But he didn’t burn the box, the dust was from another world and Uncle Andrew made the yellow rings to take you to the other world, and the green rings to bring you back. Uncle Andrew tricked them, he made Polly go to “the other world” with no way to come back so that Digory would have to go there also and bring her a green ring so they could both come back home.
Digory finally put on the gold ring and brought two green ones so that Polly could come back home too. He ends up coming out of a pool in the middle of some woods. He sees a girl lying by a tree and it takes them a while to remember everything that has happened. Then Digory sees that there are a lot of different pools. He gets to thinking and thinks that his uncle wasn’t all correct. Really the gold rings brought you to what they called “The Woods between the Worlds” and that every different pool would bring you to a different world. And the green rings would simply let you travel through the pools.
After Digory comes up with these thought he wants to explore the other worlds. But Polly wants to make sure that they can go home first. So they go back into their pool until they saw that it took them back home, then they put the gold rings on to take them back to the woods. They mark the pool that takes them back home by cutting up some grass. Then they head out to try another pool.
Polly and Digory end up in this quiet, empty, dark world, called Charn. In Charn they are in a stone building with a solid red light, instead of the light that we are used to here on earth. There, it’s just a solid dark read light, no flickering or anything. They think that the town would have been pretty neat while it was alive and had peopled, or whatever alive and moving around. But there is pretty much nothing there until they walk into this grand room with a big table and several wonderful manikins with “beautiful” clothes on according to Polly. While they admired these manikins and their clothes they notice that their facial expressions start off happy and friendly looking and then they steadily get worse and mean looking until the last one. The last one was a beautiful, tall woman. The kids were amazed by all this and couldn’t help but wonder about the history of this place and the story behind the room. After they are done looking at the manikins they go and look at this bell on top of a table-like thing. On the bell it warns you not to ring the bell because there could be danger, but it also tells you that you will live the rest of your life wondering what would have happened. Right after reading that, Polly wants to go home, but Digory wants to ring the bell. Polly reaches to grab her gold ring but Digory grabs her hand, and while hurting her, he stops her and rings the bell. This, in consequence, awakens a terrible witch that happened to be the reason that Charn was destroyed. She destroyed the whole world by a spell when she was in a war with her sister. She immediately demands that they take her back to their world so that she can conquer it. Polly and Digory know this is bad so they put their rings on to go back to the woods but the witch went with them! It turns out that the rings “work as magnets”, if you are touching someone while you put on a ring, the person goes with you.
The witch is able to come to Earth with Polly and Digory because while they were leaving the woods, the witch grabbed on to Polly’s shoulder. Te end up back in Uncle Andrew’s attic and Uncle Andrew is ecstatic, he is so happy that his rings worked and that Polly and Digory brought someone back with them. Uncle Andrew offered himself as a servant to the witch, and so she orders him to take her around London (where they live). When Uncle Andrew takes the witch around town, they create a ruckus. She steals a cab, and a pearl necklace, they just make a lot of people mad. Finally, after Digory has been watching out the window for quite a while now they come home. Digory has decided that he is just going to grab the witch and take her back to the woods between the worlds. But when the witch and Uncle Andrew get back they have several people following them, mad at them.
After a lot of yelling and the witch hit some people with the iron bar she broke off of the lamp post, Digory, and Polly, take the witch back to the woods between the worlds. Not just the witch though, they also brought the Cabby, Uncle Andrew, and Strawberry, the Cabby’s horse. From the woods Polly and Digory tried to take the witch (and everyone else) to Charn to drop the witch off where she belongs. By accident though, they ended up in another world.
This world was just dark at first, no sign of anything; they didn’t even know what they were standing on. After some time of talking and singing of hymns (lead by the cabby) something else started to sing. Then stars appeared, and eventually light. They saw a lion singing, and as he would sing different things would grow. Starting with grass, then trees, flowers, even animals. This lion, with his beautiful voice, just created this world called Narnia.
While the lion, whose name is Aslan, was singing and creating this new world the witch (being evil) tried to hurt the lion by throwing the iron bar form the lamp post at him. She hit him right between the eyes, but it didn’t faze him. He just kept walking straight while the iron piece landed far away and grew into a lamp post. The witch got scared because she couldn’t hurt him and ran away.
After the lion was done creating the world and selects some animals to talk, he selected a few more to be part of a council. While aslant was talking to his newly created council, Digory is dying to go talk to him. Se, early Digory’s aunt was talking to her friend and said something about the “land of youth” witch got Digory thinking that he could find something from another world to help save his mother. So the cabby asks Strawberry (who is now able to talk) if he would mind giving Digory a ride to Aslan so that he can talk to him. It takes Strawberry a while to remember the cabby, but once he does he agrees to take Digory to Aslan.
During Digory’s conversation with Aslan, he (son of Adam) confesses to bringing the evil (the witch) to Narnia, and tells Aslan and the council the story. Aslan tells the council not to be mad though because in hundreds of years relatives of Adam and Eve will come to help remove the evil from Narnia. After all that was over Aslan sent Digory on a mission to bring back an apple from on top of this hill far away. Digory accepts this mission and him and Polly ride on Strawberry’s back, who now has wings given to him by Aslan.
When they get to the hill and climb to the garden Digory goes in alone to get the apple. While he is in there and has the apple in his hand he is very tempted to eat it, he didn’t know what came over him, and he just wanted some. Then he looked up and saw a bird which made him not want to eat it. Then Digory realizes that he is not there alone. He sees the witch who has just eaten one of the apples. Digory sprints out the gate and beats the witch out while the gates close behind him. But the witch climbs over and gets very close to convincing Digory to take the apple back to his mom right then. Digory realizes how wicked the witch is however, and takes it back to Aslan.
Once Digory, Polly, and Strawberry return, Digory gives the apple to Aslan and Aslan tells Digory to throw it towards this one river. Digory does as he is told and then Aslan crowns the cab driver and his wife (which Aslan brought to Narnia earlier by singing her there) as king and Queen of Narnia. After the little ceremony the apple which Digory threw grew into a great tree. Aslan tells Digory to take an apple back to his mother and have her eat it. Aslan also tells him though, that he must berry the rings.
Digory does as he is told. He gives the apple to his mother, and she is cured within a few days. After that he berries the rings in the back around the apple core.
At the end of the book Digory, his mother, Uncle Andrew and Digory’s father who has just retired moved into a big mansion that Digory’s father inherited. Several years later, the tree that grew out of the apple core is struck by lightning and Digory builds a wardrobe out of it, which you can read more about in the next books.