The Prydain Chronicles Book Two: The Black Cauldron

I can see why this is a beloved children's fantasy. It's good vs. evil and right vs. wrong, but there is just enough give in the story so that it doesn't feel like the world is uncomfortably rigid. The characters really are quite lovable. They try to be good and do the right thing. And if they fail at......more

Reading this book was like eating a big bowl of ice cream. Its innocent chivalry and intrepid heroism bear the signature of a genius Fantasy writer. I thought about the Cauldron long and hard. The reasoning by which the characters travel is childish and not really reasonable. But the story is so good......more

It’s delightful for me to revisit, 40 or so years later, the adventures of Taran and his companions in this, the second novel in Lloyd Alexander’s classic Chronicles of Prydain. In these uncertain, fraught times, I am comforted by the wisdom, warmth, wit, and courage depicted in these pages. Simply......more

Heavier than the first novel (The Book of Three) with a lot more on the ball teaching wise and lesson wise. This includes lessons on everything up to self sacrifice.......more

In 4th grade all I wanted to be was Princess Eilonwy from The Black Cauldron.......more