The Book of Three (Chronicles of Prydain Series #1)

Taran dreams of adventure, but nothing exciting ever happens to an Assistant Pig-Keeper--until his pig runs away. A chase through the woods leads Taran far from home and into great danger, for evil prowls the land of Prydain. With a collection of strange and wonderful friends whom he meets on his journey, Taran finds himself fighting so that good may triumph over evil--and so that his beloved home will not fall to a diabolical fiend.

LLOYD ALEXANDER has been writing professionally for ten years and his books have garnered numerous awards, including a Newbery Honor for The Black Cauldron and the Newbery Medal for The High King. Lloyd Alexander lives with his wife in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.