The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Style: Classic
Attitude: Positive
In Brief: A voyage-of-discovery story with interesting people and challenges. Each character has to undergo a trial to grow in themselves.
Series: The Chronicles of Narnia
Publisher: Puffin
Age Range: Children+
Period: Mid 20th C
Setting: Narnia
Genres: Animal , Classic , Fantasy , Growing-Up , Magic
Characters:
- King Caspian travels to the outer reaches of his kingdom to find seven lords exiled by his uncle and to reach Aslan's country.
- Reepicheep is the chief of Narnia's talking mice, very proud but friendly if you treat him well.
- Lucy and Edmund return to Narnia as children for the last time, accompanied by their spoilt and annoying cousin Edmund who has to undergo a difficult transformation before he can find himself.
Synopsis:
Lucy & Edmund along with Eustace their spoilt and peevish cousin find themselves on board a Narnian ship with King Caspian, travelling to the outer reaches of Narnia, encountering new creatures and strange places. Eustace resents the situation at first, but after a difficult transformation, realises the error of his ways. At the end, each of the main characters must find Aslan's country in his own way.
Notes:
Tuesday 1st January 2002