I believe it is an Easter story, although it has a lot more in it. 

It begins at the end of a long winter; a lot of northern hemisphere countries are still getting snow in March. We certainly did when I lived in northern England in 2018!  Then comes the thawing, the buds and new growth, and spring at last! 

Children can play outdoors, meet friends (and enemies), and normal activities resume.  

Then we have the significant events of Easter, both Good Friday and Easter Sunday.  In our world there is no battle, but we do know that Christ's return to life shows a victory, and that ultimately the evil one is defeated.

Posted by: @coracle

It begins at the end of a long winter; a lot of northern hemisphere countries are still getting snow in March. We certainly did when I lived in northern England in 2018!  Then comes the thawing, the buds and new growth, and spring at last! 

You're actually right about that. There's a saying that goes, "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb." It's pretty chilly where I'm at in the State of Oregon, in the month of March.

The winter turning to spring is where Aslan is demonstrating His power that He has come back after being gone for who knows how long!

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Then we have the significant events of Easter, both Good Friday and Easter Sunday.  In our world there is no battle, but we do know that Christ's return to life shows a victory, and that ultimately the evil one is defeated.

After the Resurrection of Christ, it's like the battle has already been won, the work has been done!

I know that Christians and non-Christians alike enjoy the Narnia series. I wonder if even the non-Christians have picked up the Christian theme of Narnia, especially LWW?

This is another topic where I would have to outright reject the premise, if only because i feel the very notion of being a "Christmas Story" carries with it a lot greater social connotation beyond mere Biblical Symbolism than the idea of being an "Easter Story" does.

When we talk about things being "Christmas Stories" it's never simply enough for them to be set during the Winter Holidays, or to have some biblical elements - we usually expect them to reflect certain seasonal sensibilities such as Warmth, Family, Togetherness, Giving to Others, Joy and Celebration.

It's why you get a lot of debate around whether certain contemporary movies which are set at Christmas but not necessarily "about" Christmas (such as 'Die Hard' or 'Home Alone') count as being "Christmas Moves". It's something which reflects a much broader cultural tradition surrounding the very nature of Christmas stories in general.

I don't however feel the same is true of Easter as a celebration in the public discourse.

Therefore, yes LWW has some pretty obvious parallels to the Easter Story, but that in itself isn't enough to make the entire book quintessentially an "Easter Story" in that sense.

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It's why you get a lot of debate around whether certain contemporary movies which are set at Christmas but not necessarily "about" Christmas (such as 'Die Hard' or 'Home Alone') count as being "Christmas Moves". It's something which reflects a much broader cultural tradition surrounding the very nature of Christmas stories in general.

I don't however feel the same is true of Easter as a celebration in the public discourse.

I'd say the same, definitely in both the countries I've lived in (Australia and the UK) — Easter is of course celebrated widely in a secular way, with chocolate eggs and bunnies and so on, but it doesn't have anywhere near the same prominence in the cultural calendar as Christmas does. There aren't well-known "Easter stories" and "Easter movies" that large numbers of people read or watch regardless of whether they identify personally as Christian and celebrate the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. There aren't Easter carols, Easter dinners, Easter concerts, Easter parties and so on, on anything like the scale of Christmas in our societies.

So while LWW is meant to remind us of THE Easter story (in the Bible), I'm not so sure it could be called "an Easter story", just in the sense that we don't really have such a concept of "Easter stories" in our culture in the same way we have "Christmas stories". I have seen plenty of colourful kids' books with stories of the Easter Bunny — or his modern native Aussie counterpart, the Easter Bilby! — but none of them have ever become so famous and so ingrained in the cultural consciousness that everyone knows those particular stories. Not in the same way that some particular stories of Santa Claus, like 'Twas the Night Before Christmas or The Polar Express or Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, have become world-famous secular Christmas classics. It's interesting to wonder why that's the case with Christmas but not really with Easter, but that would be going right off topic!!

Given that "Father Christmas" appears, that pretty much dispenses with any notion of it being an Easter story.

But after Father Christmas has appeared, the whole of Narnia goes from Winter to Spring in the course of a few hours - and then it's not Christmas any more.

It looks like this opinion is unpopular but the idea of LWW being an Easter story makes a lot more sense to me than it being a Christmas story. While the scenes that take place at Christmas are important, they're immediately followed by scenes during Spring which are presented as even more important. None of the themes of the story have to do with traditional Christmas themes, like love or generosity, either. (Aslan taking Edmund's place is not specifically portrayed as being motivated by love.) "Easter themes," like resurrection and renewal, on the other hand, are a big part of the story. I mean the whole climax is full of Easter-esque imagery. The Christmas imagery is just in the middle.