How About Lloyd Alexander ?

[Holsety]

Yeah, Lloyd Alexander deserves resurrection.

Prydain is mandatory reading to your own kids. My 6th-grade reading teacher hooked me and revived a dying interest in reading that became lifelong.

Re-read the series to my oldest son last year (totally unable to obtain Taran Wanderer - will work for food!) and felt the tears in my eyes in "The High King" when the gwythaint returns and Taran finds... under the rock. I just get shivers from that book, whether it's Coll getting trampled by the C-B, or Eilonwy's bauble lighting up the whole blinking valley, and never mind Dyrwyn!

Night will turn to noon,
and rivers burn with frozen fire
ere Dyrnwyn be regained

A fantastic coming of age series.

You weren't able to get Taran Wanderer!? That's the best book in the series!! I'd send you mine, but I guard it too jealously.

The Prydain series is dear to my heart. It wasn't my first fantasy book, but it was the first fantasy series I read to myself. I actually have 3 copies of the book of 3 and two of every other book, because my bro bought another set during college b/c he thought we had lost our older set and took it back home later.

I don't even read from the hardcover one anymore, it's pretty much the only thing I own I try to keep in good condition. Iunno why, I really like the cover illustration.


EDIT-Lest I forget! There's a book of short stories which accompany the Prydain series called The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain. Great book.

[sgt.null]

Alexander also has other books out as well.
www.carr.org/authco/ale-bib.htm

[A Gunslinger]

The Pyrdain series is a must-read for young readers. Lloyd Alexanders work rocked! The borrowing of the Cletic mythos (wild hunt & Awren) was a great touch.
When I was in 6th grade I read the series and got so into reading once, that I had completely tuned out my surroundings...almost a self-hyponosis.

I sat in my study hall seat well into the next period!

[blackstar]

Great books! Probably in my top 10 of fantasy.

[Peven]

As far as the Susan Cooper books go, I read the first and wasn't impressed. *shrugs* Maybe they get better later on.

actually, i do think that "Over Sea, Under Stone", which is the first book in the series if memory serves, is the least satisfying of the series, though i confess to enjoying it more than you did. things get darker, more mature, and more mythical in the books that follow.