The Narnia Chronicles, first published in 1950, have been and remain some of the most enduringly popular ever published. The best known, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has been translated into 29 languages! The illustrations in this book have been coloured by the original artist, Pauline Baynes. ***Contains Colour Images**
"How ever did you learn to talk?" asked Shasta in amazement.
"Where I come from, nearly all the animals talk," replied the Horse. "The happy land of Narnia." His whinny sounded very like a sigh.
Bree the horse has been kidnapped from Narnia and longs to return there. Shasta, on the verge of being sold into slavery, decides to run away with him in search of the home he's always dreamed of. But the journey is full of surprises and fraught with dangers, and when the companions uncover a treasonous plot, it also becomes a race against time...
This is volume 3 in Chronicles Of Narnia .
This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.
There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 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. 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.
This book is in the following series:
Puffin Storybooks
Narnia
This is a seven book series by CS Lewis featuring the magical land of Narnia. Aslan the lion creates a new land of Narnia where animals can talk and portals allow the offspring of Adam and Eve to pass from our world to this new land, and get up to all sorts of adventures...
Lewis Series
Chronicles of Narnia
