Prydain

Madeleine L'Engle's "Time Trilogy"; Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings"; Susan Cooper's "The Dark Is Rising"; Lloyd Alexander's "Prydain" - had been read and re-read so many times.

Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories 2009

Eventually I finished the rest of The Chronicles of Prydain which is the series that The High King is the finish of.

MIND MELD: What Book Introduced You to Fantasy? 2009

The setting was inspired by Wales — "Prydain" is the Welsh word for Britain — and the adventures were drawn partly from "The Mabinogion," a collection of Welsh legends.

Taran Wanders Again 2010

I remember reading the "Prydain" books at a very young age, and thinking they were amazing.

Friday Pix gravesme 2007

I read and enjoyed a lot of it as a child (notably Tanith Lee's Black Unicorn, Patricia McKillip's The Changeling Sea, and Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain), but without making much of a difference between those books and, say, an Agatha Christie or an Alexandre Dumas.

INTERVIEW: Aliette de Bodard 2009

I guess he did not read Lloyd Alexander's Prydain chronicles when he was younger.

MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010

The Chronicles of Prydain (Black Cauldron, High King, etc.) were the first all word fantasy books I read.

MIND MELD: What Book Introduced You to Fantasy? 2009

You should see how long it took me to read the piddly little books that make up The Chronicles of Prydain.

Way Too Late: A Song of Ice and Fire 2009

I'd say 4th grade, Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain.

MIND MELD: What Book Introduced You to Fantasy? 2009

If you recall, or if you can ask your father or grandfathers about those far-off days, there simply were no other fantasy novels available, aside from Tolkien, Ursula K. Leguin's EARTHSEA, the Narnia of CS Lewis, and Prydain by Lloyd Alexander.

Voice Of The Fans: What Books Have You Stopped Reading? 2010