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The Lion, The Mouse and The Dawn Treader

The Lion, The Mouse and The Dawn Treader is a book by Carl McColman. The subtitle says it all; Spiritual Lessons from C.S. Lewis's Narnia. This is an e-book, so there was no jacket description, but the title leaves little to guess at.
Honestly, I am really not sure what to think of this book. On the one hand, having read C.S. Lewis's The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, it was fun to have this quasi-conversation about what is really going on in the book. After all, I'm not sure I ever knew The Chronicles of Narnia to be just a story. On the other hand, I think I may just prefer to read the chronicle rather than the lesson book.

The stories of Narnia have some very clear spiritual implications and lessons to teach.

However...

I don't know anything else about Carl save for what he has written in these pages. I sometimes wondered if Carl was stretching things a bit. I had just recently read the chronicle that was being addressed here, but I wondered how deeply between the lines Carl was sometimes reading.

Don't get me wrong. Carl writes very well. It showed creativity and much thought. It's not that he didn't make sense. But at points it felt like a pastor who really wanted to use a clip from a movie yet struggled to make the spiritual connection.

Then again, who am I? Maybe I don't read enough into what C.S. Lewis was writing. At 94 pages, this was a quick read and offered many positive points to consider.

I received this book from SpeakEasy, a special e-book edition. They give me books. I tell everyone what I think. They don't tell me what to think.

You can purchase this book here.
Carl's amazing blog is at http://anamchara.com
A YouTube trailer for the book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4o1gXKxfnM #SpeakEasyNarnia
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