If the way Digory and Polly slip on Uncle Andrew’s rings and pass through the Wood Between the Worlds into Charn and newborn Narnia thrilled you, you’ll love how September is whisked from her house into Fairyland. Like the children navigating pools to other realms, September crosses thresholds into strange provinces, bargains with wily figures, and faces a ruler whose whims twist the fate of a whole land. It has that same giddy, door-opening rush you felt when they tested the green and yellow rings—and the courage to set things right.

If flying with Fledge over the newborn forests and watching Aslan sing a world into being filled you with wonder, A Wrinkle in Time delivers that same sense of vastness and miracle. Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin tesser across impossible distances led by strange guides, encountering living stars and reality-bending landscapes. The cosmic scale and child-centered bravery echo the moment when the children behold creation itself—equal parts goosebumps and heart.

If Uncle Andrew’s reckless experiments, Jadis’s unleashed ruin from Charn, and Digory’s choice with the silver apple gripped you, Ged’s journey will, too. In A Wizard of Earthsea, a young mage’s pride looses a dark power that he must then chase and master. The story lingers on names, balance, and the cost of power—just as the rings and the apple carried heavy consequences in London and in Narnia. It’s a taut, humble reckoning with doing the right thing after doing the wrong one.

If you cared about how Digory and Polly learn courage together—outwitting Uncle Andrew, facing Jadis in London, and choosing the apple for Aslan—Taran’s first adventure will resonate. In The Book of Three, a pig-keeper, a sharp-tongued princess, and unlikely friends trek across perilous lands, stumble, learn, and step up. Like Digory’s hard-won maturity, Taran’s mistakes shape him, turning a rash boy into someone worthy of trust.

If the creation-song of Aslan, the serpent-temptation of the walled garden, and the apple’s echoes of a deeper myth drew you in, The Last Unicorn captures that same luminous, symbolic current. A unicorn, Schmendrick, and Molly Grue journey through a world where carnival cages, ruined castles, and a red bull all carry meanings beyond themselves—much like Jadis’s dead world of Charn or the tree grown from Digory’s apple. It’s an elegant fable that says more than its surface quest.