The animal featured in the title of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia novel The Horse and His Boy is a horse. Published in 1954, the story follows Shasta and the talking horse Bree during their journey from Calormen toward the northern kingdom of Archenland.
Bree is proud, intelligent, and outspoken, while Shasta is a human boy who discovers important truths about his identity and past. Their escape becomes part of a larger adventure involving Aravis, another young traveler, and her mare Hwin. The plot combines a flight narrative with political danger, personal growth, and the wider history of Narnia.
The novel’s title can cause a small mix-up because the story gives substantial attention to both a human boy and a horse. Bree is nevertheless the named animal in the title, and the book’s two central traveling pairs make horses essential to the plot. It is the fifth published Narnia book.