Reflection on The Horse and His Boy by C.S.Lewis

               This is a really cool Narnia book! This is the first one (in chronological order) that doesn’t begin with children being taken from the normal world into the world of Narnia. Instead, it is the story of children living in Calormen and the horses that help them escape to Archenland and Narnia. I liked it a lot and would put it in an upper tier of Narnia books. Here’s my current ranking:
1. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2. The Horse and His Boy
3. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
4. The Silver Chair
5. Prince Caspian

               There’s also a nice quote in the book, which was the only thing I remembered to highlight. It’s when King Lune of Archenland says, “For this is what it means to be a king: to be first in every desperate attach and last in every desperate retreat, and when there’s hunger in the land (as must be now and then in bad years) to wear finer clothes and laugh louder over a scantier meal than any man in your land.” I think that King Lune is obviously a good king and this quote is a good example of how to be a good leader.