From the text, it's all about the woman and the dwarf (which we can't see in this picture at all)
IMagining myself as a kid, or reader, I'd want to see the woman and the dwarf. (the fantastical things)
I've already seen schoolboys lots and lots of times. I would flip the composition arouund, and have the woman and the whole chariot thing powerfully looming over him. With the camera behind the boy.