David C. Downing - Into the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles

Pros: well researched yet effortless, interesting synthesis of sources
Cons: don’t expect one-stop Narnia shopping

Around the time that the first Chronicles of Narnia movie The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe came out a couple years ago, there was a whole flood of tie-in “companion” literature being produced, reprinted, and marketed as Lewis fever ...