Four children are sitting on a railway station waiting to go back to their boarding schools, when they are suddenly tugged, by magic, into the land of Narnia. But Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy find the country where they had once ruled as kings and queens (in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) has fallen on bad times. A state of civil war has been declared, all the animals, trees, and dwarfs have been banished, and young Prince Caspian is desperately trying to regain his throne and restore Narnia to its ancient glory. The children have been recalled to help him, and of course the awesome figure of Aslan the Lion eventually turns up to show them the right way to victory. But this is more than just an adventure story, it is a journey into a marvellously mysterious world where the children, and the readers, discover almost as many interesting things about themselves as they do about the people they meet there. Carnegie Medal Winnter, the late professor C. S. Lewis was an acknowledged master of the art of storytelling for children, and this book is as good as all his others.