Prydain

Title: The Book of Three

Author: Lloyd Alexander

Rating: *****

Review: This is the first book in the Chronicles of Prydain series. I loved this series growing up, but I never finished it. Now I'm attempting to. This is an action-packed short novel that Disney used in The Black Cauldron. It is in many ways a coming-of-age story, one that isn't complete and the end of this book. There are some dark scenes that might scare younger readers, but if they've read The Hobbit or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone they should be able to handle The Book of Three.