num_pages: 229
description: Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper, and his friends are led into a mortal struggle with Arwn and his deathless warriors. Taran must wrest the black cauldron from them, for it is the cauldron that gives them their evil strength. But can he withstand the three enchantresses, who are determined to turn him and his companions into toads? Taran has not foreseen the awful price he will have to pay in his defence of Prydain...
language: English
title: The Black Cauldron
titlecomplete: The Black Cauldron (The Chronicles of Prydain #2)
characters: Fflewddur Fflam, Princess Eilonwy, Taran, Gurgi
genres: Adventure, Classics, Fantasy, High Fantasy, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Magic
ratings_count: 63818
series: The Chronicles of Prydain
awards: awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Newbery Medal
publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers