Note to Hollywood producers in search of the next children’s blockbuster: read this book. The coming of age story of Taran, assistant pig-keeper who assembles a group of companions to rescue the oracular pig Hen Wen from the forces of evil. This classic has been around for over 30 years, and I cannot believe there is still not a movie version. Read this, and you will be rewarded like readers of The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia, as there are more in the series.