Need some literary advice

[werebearloony]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "augustinapeach" 
<augustinapeach at y...> wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
> 
> Christmas is coming, and I'm looking for books to give my 8-year-
old 
> son.  He is a fairly advanced reader (has finished all five HP 
> books) who really likes the fantasy genre.  Usually, I like to 
> browse through a book before I recommend it to him (hope I don't 
> sound like "Mommy Dearest" -- just not quite ready yet to explain 
> certain things to an 8-year-old!!), but I can't see myself having 
> much time to do that in the next month. I'm wondering if any of you 
> might be able to give me a brief review of the following books -- 
or 
> be able to suggest others he might like.  
> <snip>
> Greta (finally feeling ready to peek out from behind her pseudonym)
Now me:
Sorry for getting on this late but how about the Chronicles of 
Prydain by Lloyd Alexander.  They follow the adventures of Taran, the 
assistant pig keeper.  There are five books in the series plus 
another book of short stories they are:
The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Castle of Llyr
Taran Wanderer
The High King
The Foundling
The librarian at my school, which will be pre-k through 12 as of next 
year (the school is brand new so we're building up the high school 
year by year, with my class as the first graduating class) 
recommended them to me because she knew I was a HP fan and she 
thought I'd like it.  Well I read them and the books joined Tolkien's 
in my books-that-had-horrible-movies-that-I-wouldn't-read-until-ninth-
grade-because-I-thought-the-books-were-as-awful-as-the-movies list.  
I do recommend watching te disney movie (The Black Cauldron) but only 
after finishing The Book of Three and The Back Cauldron.

Hope that helps

~~loony