I absolutely adore this series, I have read it over and over through different periods in my life, and have always found it relevant. However, something upsets me about this popular series: Not everyone has an appreciation for "The Magician's Nephew.” This is the first and most fundamental book of the series. This book, along with “The Horse and His Boy,” is one of the two most commonly skipped books in the series. I can almost forgive skimming over “The Horse and His Boy,” But who could ever skip the first and most relevant book in a series? It can only be attributed to the media’s emphasis put on the second book “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,” which on its own makes for a very entertaining and complete storey. Unfortunately, due to this emphasis, a great number of people believe that this book is in fact the first and most important book in the series. In the second book, Narnia reflects a portrait of Earth, where-in both good and evil exist. However, readers are unable to understand that the evil presence in Narnia was created in the first book, when humans were accidentally introduced to this new world during it’s creation. With out “The Magician’s Nephew,” the reader will never learn that Narnia is a new world, or that new worlds are born and old worlds die everyday. With out this crucial first book, the last book in the series has no basis. Although the reader is constantly accepting magical occurrences due to the context of the series; without first reading “The Magician’s Nephew,” the entire storey can never be told. The reader will never fully understand the creation of earth and heaven, and let’s face it; that is what this series really boils down to.