The Silver Chair an old man, but his son and only heir, Prince Rilian, is missing. Aslan the lion sends two children from England to Narnia on a mission to resolve the mystery: Eustace Scrubb, from "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", and his classmate, Jill Pole. In the frame story, Eustace and Jill are students at a horrible boarding school, Experiment House. "The Silver Chair" is dedicated to Nicholas Hardie, the son of Colin Hardie, a member of the Inklings with Lewis. Macmillan US published an American edition within the calendar year. "The Silver Chair" was adapted and filmed as a BBC
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader draft written by Richard LaGravenese and Steven Knight. The previous two films have been described as remaining more faithful to the original stories than the third installment. Apted noted the episodic and disconnected nature of the story would need to be revised for a film version, such as the material involving the Dark Island, the Sea Serpent, and Eustace. They even discussed combining "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" with "The Silver Chair", much as the BBC combined "Dawn Treader" and "Prince Caspian" in its television serial. As a result, some elements were borrowed from "The Silver Chair", where Narnians