We just finished reading The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe earlier this week, and have begun reading Prince Caspian for our evening family reading time. The kids are loving these stories and are great about asking questions when there is a word or phrase they don't understand, and about figuring such things out with a few little clues.
Tonight I was reading about Edmund's "electric torch," when Jim interrupted to ask the kids if they knew what an electric torch was. They didn't, so I asked Esme "well, what is a torch?" and she said "you know, a stick with a fire on top," which was of course exactly right. So Jim said, "Right! So what do you think an electric torch might be?" And she said "well, it's got a plug!"
We tried to get them to figure it out in a lot of different ways, but they would never have guessed it is a flashlight. We laughed and laughed at Esme's try, though, she knew that if it's electric, it's got a plug!!!