Entries Categorized as 'Fiction'

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Our rating: ****

Edmund and Lucy aren’t pleased when they have to visit their bratty cousin Eustace, but things brighten up considerably when they find their way into Narnia once more. Caspian, now a king, has embarked on a quest to find the seven lords his evil uncle banished. The good ship Dawn Treader takes them far in their search, but some of them, Reepicheep particularly, desire to sail on to the End of the World.

A good book, if not my favorite in the chronicles. Eustace’s story adds a nice touch.

Freddy the Pilot

Our rating: *****

Mr. Boomschmidt, the circus owner, is in a quandary and a dilemma. So he calls on Freddy to help him out of it. Mr. Boomschmidt explains that when Mademoiselle Rose, the horseback rider, refused to marry Mr. Condiment, the sour-faced comic book publisher, Mr. Condiment threatened to close down the circus—forcing Rose to marry him for money. Since then, he’s been doing all sorts of things to stop the show, the newest of which is dive-bombing the circus in a plane. Freddy must summon up all of his detective skills in order to solve this growing dilemma.

This is one of the best Freddy books! Freddy gets to use some of his sidesplitting disguises, and with Sniffy Wilson, the skunk, and his family pretending to be Robin Hood and his Merry Men, the results are hilarious!

Rabbit Hill

Our rating: ***

New folks are coming to live on the hill, and the animal population have standards for them to meet. Will they be planting folk? Or will they set traps?

A humorous story packed with unforgettable characters.

The Last Battle

Our rating: ****

Eustace and Jill return to Narnia! This time, Aslan has been absent for a long while, but reports have come to King Tirian and his unicorn Jewel that Aslan has returned. Then a wise centuar tells them that this Aslan is a fake! Tirian tries to stop him, but ends up captured by the Calormens. Eustace and Jill must rescue the king and his unicorn and expose the false Aslan before it’s too late.

Sad to say, this book ends The Chronicles of Narnia. The battle at the end is great (it goes on for a few chapters). There are several sad parts, but of course, all comes right in the end. I think that this is a fitting end to the series, but I wish that C. S. Lewis had written more.

The Jungle Book

Our rating: ****

A tiger named Shere Khan was hunting in the jungle when he scared some people away from their campfire. When they ran they left a baby boy behind. The tiger tried to eat the boy, but the wolves protected the boy because the tiger was hunting in their part of the jungle. The mother wolf named the boy Mowgli and often told him how he would have to kill the tiger when he was older.

I like some books better than this one, and there aren’t many funny parts in it, but it’s still pretty good!