The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis

Advantages: Funny, insightful, witty, great characters, fun storyline.
Disadvantages: Nothing really.

The Silver Chair is the penultimate book in the Chronicles of Narnia series by C S Lewis. It also happens to be (after much internal deliberation) my favourite of the series, beating "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" by a hair's breadth)... As in all but one of the previous novels, The Silver Chair involves some children being plucked out of our world and into the realm of Narnia, a place similar to our own but with the addition of talking beasts ...
...the like). It is ruled by a King who acts on behalf of Aslan, the great lion who just happens to have also created the world of Narnia. He is always interested in the events of Narnia but does not always directly intervene - and sometimes he chooses children from our world (always referred to as "Son of Adam" and "Daughter of Eve") to accomplish his will. The children, in this case, are Eustace (who was a horrible child until he was taught a few ... Read review

Advantages: Exciting story, great characters, enjoyable for adults as well as children, can be read at many levels
Disadvantages: A little scary in places for sensitive younger children

The story opens with Jill Pole crying behind the school gym, because she has been bullied. No, it's not a school story, as the author hastens to reassure us. This is just the background to Jill starting to talk to Eustace Scrubb, another pupil in the school. Eustace used to be a most unpleasant child but recently has become much nicer. Out of curiosity she asks him what made him change, and he tells her a strange tale about being transported to another ...
...themselves somewhere totally unexpected, near the top of a high cliff. Eustace is terrified of heights, but Jill - who has no such fear - goes close to the edge, and disaster ensues... or so it would seem. Jill is told that she has been brought to this place for a quest: to find a missing prince. To do so, she is given four important instructions, which she must learn and repeat daily, and follow absolutely. Then she is taken to the country of Narnia, ... Read review

Advantages: Wonderful characterisation, good story, happy ending
Disadvantages: None

The Silver Chair is the sixth and penultimate of the seven books which make up the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. With Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy too old to return to Narnia, two other children carry the tale forward, as they are sent on a quest by Aslan to find a lost prince. PLOT SUMMARY After his adventure on the Dawn Treader in Narnia, Eustace Scrubb has to return to this progressive school, Experiment House, where he is bullied by ...
...their amazement find themselves on the top of a high cliff. Eusatce falls off trying to pull Jill back from the edge, and she is left alone in horror, when she is met by a lion – Aslan whom they called on. Aslan tells her that she and Eustace are to look for the lost prince of Narnia, who disappeared long ago. He is the only son of the aged king Caspian, who has no other heirs. Aslan gives her four signs to repeat that will help her on her quest, ... Read review