National Review Online has taken on the difficult question of how the Chronicles should be organized. As many of you know, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was published first but thirty years after Lewis’s death the publisher changed the order so that The Magician’s Nephew appeared first in the series. Click here to read the well-written and insightful article at NationalReview.com. We also have a great discussion going on about this right now in our forum. As always, we’d also like to point you to Andrew Rilestone’s very well-written piece on the subject.

French Narnia site Le Monde De Narnia has pictures of the McDonald’s action figures which will be appearing in Happy Meals around the world this winter. See pictures of Peter and Edmund. We’re expecting McDonald’s figures to show up in the States soon. In a recent interview Douglas Gresham said about the McDonald’s Happy Meals: “The premiums will consist of some very nice little Narnian gifts to play with.” Thanks to Stephany for the tip.

Walden.com has updated their website again to promote their next three movies coming out; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Hoot, and Charlotte’s Web. On their page for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, they have a good deal of information including The Making of the Movie, Inside the Chronicles, and Teaching Tools.

Douglas Gresham, stepson of C.S. Lewis, spoke at North Central Michigan College Tuesday in a crowded cafeteria. He talked about the film and his memories of “Jack”. Read this great account of Gresham’s appearance at the Petoskey News-Review.

There’s a great article in the DC Examiner about Tuesday’s Narnia exhibit at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library in Washington DC tour. Thanks to Brian and Leo for the alert. Click here to find out more about the Narnia Library Exhibit which is touring the country.

’Aslandaman’ alerted us that the Teaser Trailer for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is on the “Herbie: Fully Loaded” DVD, which released on October 25. The film, staring Lindsay Lohan, was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

Narnia spy iRock writes us with news that the Disney Mobile website has “Chronicles of Narnia” wallpaper for your cellphone. Images include Aslan roaring, a centaur, the Pevensies, the White Witch, movie posters, and lots more.

Tutankhamen_24 writes us about Empire Magazine’s December issue. The magazine couldn’t decide whether to run with a Narnia cover or a Harry Potter cover so they ran with both! One covers cries “Magic Showdown! Potter gets deadly serious but the doors open up on Narnia (So who will claim the lion’s share?)” And the other reads “Magic showdown! Narnia throws open its doors but Potter gets serious in Goblet of Fire (So who will boast the biggest want?)” No word yet on which cover has sold better!

Empire Online is reporting that Walden Media (the production company behind LWW) will be releasing Journey to the Center of the Earth. The movie will be set in the modern day and will be about a a father and son who discover that Jules Verne’s 1864 novel is true after all. Reportedly the movie will be shot entirely in 3D and will be released in 3,000 normal cinemas around the US.

From The UK’s Independant Online Edition: The film’s producers have employed Christian marketing groups to promote it, including Motive Marketing, the team behind Mel Gibson’s storming success with The Passion of the Christ. But Tilda Swinton who plays the White Witch, denies that it carries a Christian message. “We’re not a religious group,” Swinton tells me, “We’re film-makers. C S Lewis is a very well known writer of Christian tracts, but I think it would be an insult to him as a writer to say that The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is a religious tract … This is not a religious film, but people will project on to it what they want to.” As if that wasn’t bad enough, she adds: “Personally, I was brought up to believe it is extremely bad manners to talk about your faith.” Read the whole article here.