The Magician’s Nephew: Graphic Novel

The edition guide

A closer look.

Ben Hatke adapts and illustrates the Narnia origin story in a full-colour graphic novel. This guide follows the identifiable UK paperback, keeping its publication date distinct from the earlier January date in the US publishing announcement.

Why return to this book?

A graphic retelling lets readers encounter the movement between worlds through page composition and pictures. It can sit alongside the prose version as another interpretation rather than replace the original novel’s publication history.

About the original work

C. S. Lewis’s Narnia novel, first published in 1955, follows Digory and Polly into other worlds and the beginnings of Narnia. This graphic adaptation returns to an earlier story rather than adding a newly written Lewis novel to the series.

Two January dates, two market contexts

The exact UK publisher product gives 28 January 2027. HarperCollins’s US publishing-program announcement gives 12 January for the graphic adaptation. These statements are retained with their market contexts rather than treated as contradictory dates for one UK product.

What is not assumed

The listing establishes the earlier story and Hatke’s adaptation and illustration roles. This guide does not claim that the graphic script reproduces the film, adds a new Lewis story or is the first-ever visual adaptation.

What this edition includes

• Full-colour graphic retelling of the earlier Narnia novel
• Adapted and illustrated by Ben Hatke