Month: March 2019

By C.S. Lewis
256 pages

Shasta is a slave boy in Calormen, working under an old fisherman. One day he meets a talking Narnian horse named Bree, who helped him escape to avoid being sold. They travel across the country, and stumble across another escaping Narnian horse, and its’ rider, Aravis. The four of them traveled onwards, until they reached the Tisrocs’ palace. They had to be careful going through the great city, and part way through, someone mistook Shasta for a prince named Corin, and took him away. He had to escape the Narnian king and queen, and find his way back to the others. Can he do it?

This book was really cool. I liked the plot of escaping a life of slavery and getting to a free country, and it was well written. I recommend this book to fans of Narnia and give it a 9 out of 10.

By C.S. Lewis
195 pages

Prince Caspian was a boy who, after his parents were killed, was taken in by his uncle Miraz. Miraz was the current King of Narnia, and had driven out all talking and magical animals. Caspian was told stories of Old Narnia, a place where talking animals lived, and Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter were the kings and queens of Narnia, under the mighty Aslan, the lion creator of the world. He was told these stories in secret, because King Miraz didn’t want anyone to find out about Old Narnia. One day, he and the queen had a baby, and his tutor told him to escape because now that Miraz had his own heir, he would attempt to kill him. Caspian escapes to the forest, where he discovered that old Narnia lived on, in hiding. He called a meeting of all the talking and magical beasts, and they discussed war. They made their base in Aslans’ How, a mound built over a broken table of stone. However, Caspian was badly losing. He was desperate, so he blew the horn of Queen Susan, to get help.

This was a very cool story, I liked how it was set far in the future of Narnia. Like all of his books, this one kept me hooked in throughout the story. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys fantasy and give it a 9 of 10.

By C.S. Lewis
224 pages

Do you like books about magical worlds, where animals talk and amazing creatures roam?  The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is a non-fictional book about 4 children, Lucy, Peter, Susan and Edmund, who in WW2, were sent to an old professors’ house for safety. Their first day there the clouds opened up and rain poured down, meaning they couldn’t explore the area like they had originally planned. They settled for second best and decided to explore the house.

While they were exploring, Lucy, the youngest sibling, entered a room bare of furniture, but for a wardrobe made from the wood of a Narnia tree. She entered it and found a lot of coats, and she went deeper and deeper into it, until it was not coats she was feeling, but branches and leaves. She had unwittingly entered the land of Narnia. It appeared to be deep in winter, but it was in fact a curse cast by the new queen, the White Witch.

While there, she met a kindly faun named Tumnus, who invited her to his home, which was a cozy cave. They talked and ate for hours, until Lucy started getting worried and Tumnus admitted that he was a kidnapped under the a White Witch. He was good however, and released her. Lucy ran back, and found herself stumbling through not leaves, but coats. She ran to tell the others, and found that she had not been gone at all.

They all go into Narnia after some disagreement, and ran into Mr and Mrs Beaver, who let them into their dam. They found that Edmund had gone to join the White Witch, because he thought she would make him a prince, and they went to find Aslan, the mighty lion who gave life to Narnia, and together, they fought against the White a Witch, to bring good back to Narnia.

I really enjoyed this book, and recommend it to anyone who enjoys fantasy. I like C.S. Lewis’s style of writing, because it keeps me eager and interested in the story. It is a great story, and gets a 10 of 10.

By C.S. Lewis
183 pages

Digory and Polly are two children who, when they sneak into Digorys’ Uncle Andrews’ bedroom, are teleported by him, into a place they called the wood between the worlds. There were many pools, all the same, in that wood, and if they jumped into one, they would be transported to another world. They were teleported to a world at the end of its days, where Digory accidentally awakened a magical mistress, who would later become known as the White Witch. The children tried to escape, but they accidentally took her to their own world, our world, where she wreaked havoc until taken back to the wood between the worlds, along with Uncle Andrew, using his magical rings. They then tried to escape into another world, but the witch followed them, and they came into a world of darkness. Then, they heard a singing, beautiful singing, rolling across the land, and a sun rose, a new sun. Animals burst out of mounds in the ground and life grew. The singer was a mighty lion, named Aslan, who christened the land as Narnia. The witch escaped, and became later known as the White Witch. Because Digory had bought her into the world, he had to save Narnia. Can he do it?

I really enjoyed this book, because of the way it hooked me in and held fast through the whole story. There was never a boring bit in it. It had a wonderful ending, which immediately got me hooked into the next book, before I had even started it! I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a good fantasy, and give it a nine out of ten.