The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

“What awaited them on this island was going to concern Eustace more than anyone else, but it cannot be told in his words because after September 11 he forgot about keeping his diary for a long time.” – Chapter 5, pg. 75

“Sleeping on a dragon’s hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.”
– Chapter 6, pg. 91

“But here part of the magic of the book came into play. You couldn’t turn back. The right-hand pages, the ones ahead, could be turned; the left-hand pages could not. And she could never remember what she had read; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician’s book.” – Chapter 10, pg. 157

“And every night they saw that there rose in the east new constellations which no one had ever seen in Narnia and perhaps, as Lucy thought with a mixture of joy and fear, no living eye had seen at all.” – Chapter 13, pg. 190

“Very soon after they had left Ramandu’s country they began to feel that they had already sailed beyond the world. All was different. For one thing they all found that they needed less sleep. One did not want to go to bed nor eat much, nor even to talk except in low voices. Another thing was the light. There was too much of it. The sun when it came up each morning looked twice, if not three times, its usual size.” – Chapter 15, pg. 218

“Do you mean to say that you three come from a round world and you’ve never told me? It’s really too bad of you. Because we have fairy-tales in which there are round worlds and I always loved them. I never believed there were any real ones. But I’ve always wished there were and I’ve always longed to live in one. I wonder why you can get into our world and we never get into yours? If I only had the chance! It must be exciting to live on a thing like a ball.” – Chapter 15, pg. 231

So those were some of my favorite book quotes from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis.

I almost liked this one as much as The Magician’s Nephew. It was a nice break from the format of the three previous books in the series (which all culminate

in some epic battle between your choice of witch, tyrant or neighboring nation). Instead, the characters sailed from undiscovered island to undiscovered island, allowing Lewis to put that crazy imagination of his to good use. And apparently Stardust wasn’t the first book about a star-person falling out of the sky (I’m on to you, Neil Gaiman). My only qualm with this story was when Aslan appeared as a lamb instead of a lion (I’m guessing that was some religious reference and not Twilight-related) and told the kids he has a different name in their/our world. I’m sure he meant God, but the first thing that came to my mind was 'Endangered species?'