Series of children's fantasy novels by Lloyd Alexander
The Chronicles of Prydain
A complete set of The Chronicles of Prydain
The Book of Three (1964)
The Black Cauldron (1965)
The Castle of Llyr (1966)
Taran Wanderer (1967)
The High King (1968)
Author
Lloyd Alexander
Illustrator
Evaline Ness (maps)
Cover artist
Jean-León Huens
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
High fantasy, children's literature
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published
1964–1968
Media type
Print (hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book
No. of books
5
Followed by
The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain
The Chronicles of Prydain is a pentalogy of children's high fantasy Bildungsroman novels written by American author Lloyd Alexander and published by Henry Holt and Company. The series includes: The Book of Three (1964), The Black Cauldron (1965), The Castle of Llyr (1966), Taran Wanderer (1967), and The High King (1968). The Black Cauldron earned a 1966 Newbery Honor, and The High King won the 1969 Newbery Medal.
The five novels take place in Prydain, a fictional country ruled by a High King who oversees several minor kingdoms. The setting is based on Wales and inhabited by creatures and characters inspired by Welsh mythology and folklore. The series follows the protagonist Taran, a youth of unknown parentage living on a farm with an old enchanter named Dallben and a farmer named Coll. Taran, who dreams of being a great hero, is named "Assistant Pig-Keeper" and tasked with helping to care for and protect Hen Wen, a white oracular pig magically empowered with clairvoyance. Taran has a series of adventures wherein he helps protect the land of Prydain from various threats, chief among them the evil Arawn, whose forces include an undead army known as the Cauldron-Born. Throughout the novels, Taran's major companions are the Princess Eilonwy, the bard Fflewddur Fflam, the wild beast-man Gurgi, and the dwarf Doli. The heroes frequently work alongside the Fair Folk (a society of elves and similar beings) and the warriors known as the Sons of Don. Along with various battles against forces of evil, the novels focus on Taran's journey of maturity.[1][2][3]
The Chronicles of Prydain were accompanied by an illustrated short story book in 1965 and another in 1967, and were followed by The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain, a collection of six short stories published in 1973. The cover art for the novels and the interior art for the short story picture books was done by Evaline Ness. New illustrations for the 1973 anthology were done by Margot Zemach. The first two novels of The Chronicles of Prydain were loosely adapted into the 1985 Disney film The Black Cauldron and led to a video game of the same name produced by Sierra Entertainment.
^""The Chronicles of Prydain" book series to be a feature length movie by Disney". Inside the Magic. March 18, 2016.
^House, Ellen (September 1, 2011). "Book forum". Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 50 (9): 951–955. doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2011.07.016 – via www.jaacap.org.
^Nelson, Claudia; Morris, Rebecca (April 8, 2016). Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature. Routledge. ISBN 9781317065975 – via Google Books.
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