The Magician's Nephew/Awesome


 * Digory, having fallen for Schmuck Bait earlier in the book with disastrous consequences, holds fast to his promise to fetch Forbidden Fruit for Aslan without stealing any for himself -- even when Jadis suggests that it could save his ill mother's life.
 * Jadis beating people off of her with the arm of the lamppost.
 * Jadis loose in London is basically one afternoon-long CMOA. It's the biggest compensation for any preachiness in C.S. Lewis's books that he had a sense of humor about this kind of thing. For instance, the Running Gag about how this is the best day the housemaid has had in recent memory. And can I get an amen for Aunt Letty? "Aunt Letty was a very tough old lady; aunts often were in those days."
 * Aslan singing the world into existence. I want a movie of this book just so we can get some Scenery Porn of that entire sequence.
 * As I understand it, you'll get your wish next film up, rather than The Silver Chair.
 * King Frank. He's a London cab driver that steps up and becomes the first King of Narnia, just because he is willing to protect the Talking Animals.
 * And his wife, Nellie, who gets dragged into Narnia in the middle of laundry day and is like, "Hmm? What? Queen? Okay."
 * The final reveal that Digory will grow up to be the Professor, and made the wardrobe from the first book from a tree brought back from Narnia.