A beautiful hardback edition of The Horse and His Boy, book three in the classic series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and colour interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta on the run from his homeland with the talking horse, Bree. When the pair discover a deadly plot by the Calormen people to conquer the land of Narnia, the race is on to warn the inhabitants of the impending danger and to rescue them all from certain death.
This book features in the following series: Bbc Radio Collection, Bbc Radio Collection Chronicles Of Narnia, Chronicles Of Narnia, Lewis Series, Narnia, Puffin Storybooks, The Chronicles Of Narnia, The Chronicles Of Narnia Facsimile, Thorndike Young Adult .
This book has been graded for interest at 8 years.
There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published in 2014 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 features the following characters:
Hwin
This book features the character Hwin.
Shasta
This book features Lewis's character, Shasta.
Aravis Tarkheena
This book features Lewis's character, Aravis Tarkheena.
Bree
This book features Lewis's character, Bree.
`The magic of C. S. Lewis's parallel universe never fades.' The Times
