Anticipating The Magician's Nephew

I am excited to read The Magician's Nephew. I am very familiar with C.S. Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia series. I know that The Magician's Nephew is the first book in the series, but I know that it was not written first. I have read the children abridged version before but I do not know if I have ever read the actual version. I loved The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. My mom first read that to me in the fourth grade. As for C.S. Lewis, my junior year of high school, I had to read The Screwtape Letters for my Theory of Knowledge class. I know that Lewis was a new Christian when he wrote the series and that there are a lot of underlying Christian themes throughout. I have seen both of the Chronicles of Narnia movies that have come out recently, and my family is a big fan of both the movies and the series. I am anxious to start reading it again and see what we talk about in class.