We’ve just finished off The Horse and His Boy, and, with great excitement have started on the last book in The Chronicles of Narnia series, The Last Battle. The boys have heard from their babysitter that this is the very best book in the series, so the anticipation has been growing as we read through the first six books! I’m really looking forward to reading this book as well, in light of our families recent interest in studying the End Times. I’ve loved so much the unique way that C.S. Lewis brings biblical truths to life in these books, and I’m anxious to peer into his insight on eschatology.
Below is one of my favorite lines from The Horse and His Boy. Spoken by a talking Horse named Hwin upon her first encounter with Aslan, it so struck me as something that I want to be able to say.
“Please,” she said, “you’re so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I’d sooner be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.”
…Oh! …To be so fascinated with the Lord and His beauty that every other pleasure in life just seems irrelevant…to have such a revelation of His majesty that for Him to consume my thoughts, my dreams, my time, my everything is what makes me tick.
P.S. We’re already discussing what our next series of books will be. Any suggestions?
Sarah
March 4, 2009 at 3:24 pm
the wormling series by chris fabry & jerry jenkins is excellent… our kids would beg us to keep reading!
Grampie Horsman
March 5, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Thornton W. Burgess Bedtime Stories is an excellent series for children. Great character building as well as educational. They are great nature stories. I’ll be sending you some info about this series. We read some of them to David and the others. I can get them at Chapters here for $2.14 each ($2.25 with tax). When will your present book be finished? I’m trying to get some of this series to send to you.
Janet
March 6, 2009 at 9:58 am
Thanks, Sarah for this suggestion. I’d never heard of these books before and they kind of look like the Narnia genre (maybe?) They look really good.
Grampie, it’ll probably take us a few weeks to get through The Last Battle, I think.
Matthew
March 9, 2009 at 12:13 pm
there’s a series called “kingdom tales” if you can get them. it’s a great trilogy.
tales of the kingdom:
Tales of the Kingdom (Kingdom Tales, Book 1)
tales of the resistance:
Tales of the Resistance
tales of the restoration:
Tales of the Restoration, Book 3