Lucy Barfield

No book is really worth reading at the age of 10, which is not equally and often far more worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond.

And then this great one, he started... thinking about who he was going to dedicate the Narnia books to, and he decided the first one would be dedicated to his goddaughter, Lucy Barfield.

But by the time he finally got around to writing the book, she was a teenager.

And so, you know, teenager, too cool for children's books.

Lewis loved children, even though he didn't have any of his own.

And this particular one was dedicated to Geoffrey Corbett.

And Geoffrey was 12 years old at the time that the book was published, And he was an orphan who was evacuated out of London in the Blitz, and he was billeted with Owen Barfield and his family, who had already adopted Lucy Barfield, to whom The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is dedicated.

So Lewis dedicated The Voyage of the Dawn Treader to Geoffrey Corbett, and Geoffrey was a smart kid.