Narnia is in its last days when Jill and Eustace are called there to help King Tirian. Some Narnians claim that Aslan the Lion has returned, but this is a fierce and merciless Aslan, not the Lion they have known before. A great war breaks out and all seems lost as night falls on Narnia. Is this the end of Narnia, or is there something even better beyond the door? This is last book in the Chronicles of Narnia series.

Reviewed by: msp

Date read: 9/27/2010

ISBN-10: 0060234938

ISBN-13: 9780060234935

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This is a gentle retelling of Aesop's Fable of how a little mouse is capable of helping, 'the King of the Jungle'- showing young readers that it is the size of your heart that is important.

Similar books: The Boy Who Cried Wolf by Mair Mackinnon; The Rabbit and the Turtle: Aesop's Fables by Eric Carle; There's a Wolf at the Door by Zoe B. Alley

Reviewed by: mb

Date read: 7/15/2009

ISBN-10: 067998674X

ISBN-13: 9780679986744

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Lucy, Peter, Susan, and Edmund find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia, and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter. Part of the Chronicles of Narnia series.

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 3/27/2009

ISBN-10: 0060765488

ISBN-13: 9780060765484

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Laura Ingalls and her family are on the Kansas prairie in the 1800's. They meet their Indian neighbors, and face a fast rising creek and a even a prairie fire.

Reviewed by: St. Charles Reader

Date read: 10/23/2009

ISBN-10: 0060264454

ISBN-13: 9780060264451

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This little book about the adventures of a young prince from his own planet as he ventures out into the wider universe is beloved for its deeper story of what is truly important in life. This graphic novel adaptation makes concrete many of the stories inside it, adding richness to the situations contained within. While surprisingly faithful to the text (of the English translation in nongraphic format I examined), the addition of pictures in a frame-by-frame telling of the tale brings an immediacy to the series of dilemmas the little prince and the pilot he meets face, allowing the reader to more fully explore them. In the same way adapting a book to film adds an interpretation that the reader makes on one's own when reading, this transfer to another artistic medium, the graphic novel, adds something that those who love the tale may value. Of course, those who love the tale are unlikely to abandon the textual telling for this one, but the graphic novel, while faithful to the story in the original, is also a work of art in its own right that lovers of the story may also embrace.

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 11/30/2011

ISBN-13: 9780547338026

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