At about the age of six, C. S. Lewis invented the imaginary world of "Animal-Land" or "Boxen", as it later came to be called, and over the next few years he wrote numerous stories and histories about the "dressed animals" which inhabited it. [Preface; p. 7]

"To forbid the making of pictures about God would be to forbid thinking about God at all, for man is so made that he has no way to think except in pictures." Thus Dorothy Sayers states the premise underlying the pictorial symbolism used by C. S. Lewish in his delightful series of children's books, The Chronicles of Narnia.