The Horse and His Boy by C.S.Lewis

By Maya Gatson 

           The Horse and His Boy is part of the Narnia series and is about a talking horse named Bree from Narnia and a peasant boy named Shasta that lived with a poor fisherman who he called father.  One night when a tarkan, aka prince, comes to stay the night, Shasta has to sleep out side with the horse.  He over hears the fisherman talking to the tarkan about selling him into slavery.  Soon after that he finds out the horse can talk and runs away to Narnia with Bree.  In their first adventure Bree and Shasta meet Hwin and Aravis while getting chased by lions. In their second adventure, they are crossing a dessert to get to Narnia and Archenland to tell king Lune to get prepared for war.  In their third adventure Shasta finds out that he is king Lune’s long lost son.

            This book reminds me of the show Switched at Birth because Shasta doesn’t know who his father is till the end of the story.  In switched at birth it’s the same thing except there were two girls that are living in the wrong families and were switched at birth. They find out because one of the girls did a blood test at school and found out her blood type didn’t match her parents.

            I would recommend this book to someone that likes the Narnia series and someone that likes adventure stories because it is a really intriguing story and tells about how Shasta’s struggle leads to his victory.