Beautiful hardback editions of the classic series with covers designed by award winning illustrator David Wiesner.
"I'm dreaming," thought Shasta. "I could have sworn that horse spoke."
Bree, the talking horse, has been kidnapped from Narnia, and longs to return. Shasta, on the verge of being sold into slavery, decides to run away with him. Before they know it, they are on a wild and dangerous journey together, through strange cities, eerie tombs and harsh deserts...
This is the third adventure in the exciting Chronicles of Narnia.
This is volume 3 in Chronicles Of Narnia .
This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.
There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Pauline Baynes is one of the greatest living children's illustrators whose line illustrations for C. S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe helped turn it into a well-loved classic which was shortlisted for Book of the Millennium in 2000. David Wiesner has won the Caldecott Medal three times and is internationally renowned for his visual storytelling. He lives near Philadelphia. www. davidwiesner. com Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast in 1898. He wrote numerous books of literary criticism and on Christianity, the best-known being The Screwtape Letters, as well as four novels for adults. The Narnia stories were his only works for children.
This book contains the following story:
The Horse and His Boy
Set in the golden age of Narnia when Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy ruled, in the land of Calormen, this story tells of the adventures of Shasta, a slave boy and Aravis, an aristocratic girl. Shasta dreams of escaping his life. One day he learns that his master's horse is a talking horse called Bree who has been kidnapped from Narnia and desperately wishes to go home, and the two run away. Aravis has been promised in marriage to a man she does not live, and she too seeks escape on her talking horse, Hwin. As their paths cross the children and their horses uncover a Calormene plot to conquer Narnia. They must find a way to save Narnia and its people.
