I enjoyed The Magician's Nephew because it gave the whole Narnia/Other Worlds thing an immediacy that the other books didn't. In LW&W, the only access to Narnia is a magical cupboard. By the end, people were popping in and out of places all the time and all over the place, making it seem more reachable. (At least, to an 11 year old kid.) Admittedly, though, everything in between worked hard to rob Narnia of its magic.
Remember that while there was a consistent story thread moving through all of the books, each book was making allegories to one or two great works and classics (Voyage of the Dawn Treader as Odysseus and lots and lots of references to Spenser), so "canon" wasn't always foremost in mind.
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