The Horse and His Boy

I have loved this book since I was very young. Listening to it as an audiobook has only reignited that love.

My favorite CS Lewis book ? I’ve read it before but this audio was brilliant! The reader brings it to life beautifully with his different voices. I love it even more now.

This was a very nice reading of a loved classic

I love it, it’s a masterpiece such a fun and unique idea

Another classic of C.S. Lewis! It isn't as popular as The Wardrobe but the Christian themes are very touching and the turns in the plot are impactful.

Excellent book in the Narnia series. One of the best for sure. The mind of CS Lewis is genius. The narrator of this series is incredible.

This was one of my favorite Narnia books when I was a kid. The main characters filled my favorite tropes: Shasta is a poor pitiful orphan whose good heart launches him into an adventure, while Aravis has all the quick wits and tough spirit that a girl could wish for. I liked that their relationship began badly but ended with complete trust in each other. And there's basically no adult help until the very end (to my mind, Hwin and Bree don't count as adults, being horses), which always thrills a young lass. I reread this book so many times that I could practically recite the section where Shasta has orange sherbert for the first time, or when he and Aravis try to outrun lions across the desert.

But this was also the start of my discomfort with Narnia, because even as a child I could tell that the Calormen and their society were created and described with racist, Islamaphobic, Orientalist cliches. And I never felt right about Aslan tearing up Aravis's back--like so many of Aslan's punishments, it felt disproportionate and unfair. So I think this is a book that will stay on the shelf, lest I reread it and become further disappointed.

Out of the all the books in the Chronicles of Narnia series I have read so far, this was my least favorite. I kept getting confused by the various characters' names and had a tough time staying interested in this story. It wasn't a terrible book, but it also wasn't great. It just wasn't as compelling as some of the other books in the series.

An unexpected twist in the Narnia Chronicles. I knew absolutely nothing about the chronicles when I first started reading them, and I like the idea of noble horses. It puts things in perspective.

Every now and then it is fun to read a fasted paced, short book. I love to read these books.

I’ve been discouraged in my faith but this book inspired my faith all while being an entertaining story that I plan to listen to again. Excellent! I recommend it.

My favorite Narnia book

Not our favorite of the series, but still an interesting political book.

The story is superbly predictable, but I loved it all the same.

A story I found charming as a child in the long ago ‘60s now reads - to someone now in his own 60s - as an expression of unconscious British racism. This unsavory survival of Lewis’ upbringing in Imperial Britain is masked by amusing scenes with the horses and their humans, the overt Christianity of the Narnian cult of Aslan, and post-Imperial disapproval of the barbaric imperialism of a dark-skinned southern people. All this is tied up with the always promising agency of Lewis’ lively female characters inevitably being sidelined into traditional gender roles, and laughable echoes of late Victorian concepts of chivalry in battle. It is very hard to visualize myself reading this tale out loud to my currently hypothetical grandchildren. Of course it is an extremely well-written story that bounces right along, is often amusing, and occasionally sounds wise in its lessons in Christian humility. Yet what else will be soaked up from the reading, especially if you move on at some point to reading the repetition of the stereotypes in the Last Battle?

Wonderful as ever! A great narrator too! Read it now!

I've read other reviews saying there being no mention of the 'real world's feels out of place. I'd have to heavily disagree and say it was more immersive to have a story that takes place in the beautiful world Lewis created rather then the fantasy of leaving ours. This book helps to flesh our the world of Narnia and it's culture a lot more. It is my favorite in the series.

Adventure is a big part I look for when looking for a book, and this extension on the Narnia books has it.

Wonderful! I have absolutely loved diving into Narnia! Lewis is a legend & master storyteller!

Kids and I loved this book so very much! Thanks!

Pretty good, though there were moments where what was being described was confusing. Love that it fills in gaps from the movies.

My 9 year old loved this book. The reader did a wonderful job pulling him in and keeping his attention.

A great story for the young and old, Lewis is an artist with words and you should not miss out on any of this wonderful series, in the simplest terms this is a good book and you should read it.

See review for #2, "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe."

More religious allusions, this time retelling the story of Moses via a peasant boy and his talking horse. This book takes place near the end of Wardrobe, was written prior to The Silver Chair, but published afterward, so as to not break up the Caspian books.Definitely worth reading by any fan of Lewis or Narnia.

SUMMARY - The horse and his boy is the 4th book in the Narnis series.In this story we see a young boy called Shasta with a horrible father and a sad life. Now Shasta has a cloudy past and is different from the other Caloremenes. Shasta has light skin and works like a slave for his supposed Father. ONe day a cheif of Caloremen decides to buy Shasta as his slave, and in despration, Shasta speaks to the Cheifs horse. THere is only on thing wrong with this, the horse talks back. The horse tells Shasta of Narnia where he is from, and together they run away to find Narnia and be free. Along the way, the Horse and his boy find a run away Caloremene Princess and her talking horse, and theyy travel to Narnia together. While traveling they here some plans to attack Narnia being made by a Caloremene king. The group rushes to Archenland and Narni to warn of the attack. After the battle is finished, The king of Archenland discovers that Shasta is his long lost son, and the heir to the throne. Shasta marries the runaway Caloremene Princess, and rules the throne happy ever after.REVIEW - I think this book is rather off topic of the Narnia series. In this story we focus more on Caloremene, a dangerous long time enemy of Narnia, who is never mentioned much. We also zero in on Archenlad, which is a neighboring alliance of Narnia. However off topic, I think this is my favorite book in the Narnia series. I really enjoyed thi story because, all throughout the Narnia series, Caloremene was thought of as an evil country, and now we get a more inside veiw of their people. I would suggest this book to kids of all ages. I think this book deserves at least four stars. C.S Lewis did a great job in writhing this story, as he does with most all of his tales.

This was a wonderful modern fantasy book. This modern fantasy was characterized bty allusion to Christian myths. The story begins with a young boy being sold to a trader by his own father. He meets a talking horse and they both run away from the slave trader towards Narnia. The boy meets Aravis (a fiesty runaway princess) and Hwin (another talking horse). The four of them decide to travel towards Narnia. While on their journey, they discover a wicked plan to overthrow Narnia and its allies. The witty bunch is able to inform the kingdom that they are under attack. By doing so, they are able to defeat the oppressors. I would read a chapter a die to my fourth grade students.

I have mixed feelings about The Horse and His Boy. On the one hand, excellent adventure, great characters (especially the horses), and the sure hand of Aslan guiding the narrative. On the other...well... there's Calormen.Also, inexplicably, Shasta develops a British schoolboy's diction at the end of the book.

This is a story of runaways and how their lives are intertwined with each other. It is an interesting view as the book starts out with the "Horse" seemingly the master. This book was much slower and harder to get into than the first two of the Narnia series.

The funniest and most endearing of the Narnia series, it is also the one with the moral most Christians forget: mind your own business. One of the very best in the series, and the one that would make the best movie.