by C. S. Lewis, 1950
Lucy enters the wardrobe first to Narnia, then Edmund does but he meets the witch. She gives him Turkish Delight and promises him more if he’ll bring back his 3 siblings, Peter, Susan, and Lucy. Edmund believes the witch, not Aslan, but she really just wants the 4 of them killed so they can’t become the rulers of Narnia, according to Prophecy. But then Edmund learns her true nature and Aslan comes back and saves him, sacrifices himself for Edmund, but returns to life and goes to the witch’s house and brings all the stone statues back to life. Then he goes to the battle between the witch and Peter and Edmund and the good animals. Edmund destroys her wand so she can’t turn any more into stone. Then Aslan destroys her. Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy become the kings and queens of Narnia and rule it in peace for many years. Then Tumnus, the Faun that Lucy met at first by the lamppost, lets them know the White Stag has returned and if caught, grants wishes. So they all go hunting for him and he leads them to the lamppost and they all have remembrance and decide to keep looking and end up through the wardrobe into the room on the very same day and same hour they had left. They explained to the professor why 4 coats were missing. And the professor believed them! But told them they wouldn’t be able to get back to Narnia by the wardrobe ever again. They would go back someday but, “It’ll happen when you’re not looking for it.” (You never get to Narnia the same way twice!)
(The professor is Digory, the little boy in The Magician’s Nephew, who went to Narnia first and saw Aslan create it. He got to take home an apple for his Mom, to cure her. He planted the core and buried the rings around it. A great storm blew the tree down. He used the timber to make the wardrobe.)