{"id":1910,"date":"2025-10-09T17:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2025-10-13T21:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:22:36","slug":"the-voyage-of-the-dawn-treader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1910","title":{"rendered":"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gracious, Prince Caspian<\/em> (the second published Narnia book) is boring. I didn’t miss a thing not reading that one as a kid. So, I skipped reading it to the boys, going from Wardrobe<\/em> straight to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader<\/em> (the third published Narnia book).\u00a0 And then, well, I skipped reading them the rest of the series too (because they were dull as Caspian,<\/em> even more preachy and dated than this book, and the boys never asked about them) and showing them the live-action movies.\u00a0 So, as far as our family is concerned, I guess this series is a duology.\u00a0 And a good one!\u00a0 While Lewis is so very preachy (which I supposes makes sense in the Christian allegory context that he was working within–see my discussion of Wardrobe<\/em> for more on this) and the pictures are generally awkward (as with Wardrobe<\/em>), it is full of adventure and a nice change to have an antihero as a main character, someone needs a lot of personal growth rather than starting off perfect.\u00a0 But the real draw in Dawn Treader<\/em>, as far as I’m concerned, will always be the glorious Reepicheep.\u00a0 Well, and the opening line:\u00a0 “There once was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb and he almost deserved it.”<\/p>\n

Author:\u00a0 C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n

Illustrator:\u00a0 Pauline Baynes\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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