From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia with my nine-year-old self

** Guardian Summer Reading selection: the 50 hottest new books everyone should read **** The Times: 100 best books to read for summer 2021 **Back in the 1960s a little girl of nine who was deeply in love with Narnia wrote a book of short stories. Written in spiky blue ink with various crossings-out and spelling mistakes, Katherine Langrish’s Tales of Narnia filled an old hard-cover notebook from front to back. Some of the stories were illustrated with dramatic, poster-painted scenes, and Ka...