Hey, everybody! Welcome back to Tumnus’ Bookshelf, where we review any and all books by, about, and inspired by CS Lewis and the Land of Narnia. Today we will be looking at The Quest for the Lost Lords, book two in the I Can Read Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader series.
Title: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Quest for the Lost Lords ( I Can Read Book 2)
Author: Jennifer Frantz
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN-10: 0061969087
ISBN-13: 978-0061969089
Synopsis:
Lucy, Edmund and their cousin Eustace are pulled into Narnia through a picture and accompany King Caspian on a quest to find the Lost Lords. They arrive at Narrowhaven in the Lone Islands and are taken captive. Caspian stages a daring rescue and frees them all and they find Lord Bern.
Review:
Despite the title, Quest for the Lost Lords does not summarize the entire story of Voyage of the Dawn Treader. It only deals with finding Lord Bern, and it is just as well .To try and tell the full story in an easy read book would leave the story very hallow, and that is not the point with this series.
With the I Can Read Narnia books, the focus is to try and help encourage and foster reading skills in early readers. The book promises to have a high interest story for a developing reader and it does that very well. Arguably, of the Lost Lords the incident involving Lord Bern is probably the one that can stand the best on it’s own, as it is really pretty simple. The episodes involving Lord Rhopp in the Dark Island may be far to frightening, the three at Ramandu’s Island would give away too much of the story and the last two other lords are dead.
Parents should remember that this is based on the movie and may contain elements not in the original book. However, I can say that the story certainly is interesting and will most likely serve as a good gateway for younger readers. I can say as with the rest of the I Can Read series these would most likely be the books I would use to help introduce a young reader to the land of Narnia.
4 1/2 out of 5 Shields
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