Fifty Famous Fairy Tales

Put my kids to sleep!

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I got this book to listen to with my kids in the car. They fell asleep every time I put it on. The stories are classics, but the narrator is fairly monotone, certainly not captivating.

6 people found this helpful

good narration, easy to understand

I downloaded a few different fairy tales series for my kids to listen to in the car. This was by far the best. A lot of the other stories that I downloaded had complex language that made it hard for my kids (4 and 7) to understand. This one is free of annoying music and the narrator speaks with a clear american accent. Several of the other story collections were narrated by people with thick English accents making it hard for young American ears to understand. This is also 6 hours long which is great because it provides so many hours of entertainment and also, the adult is not forced to listen to the same stories over and over again.

10 people found this helpful

Why are there only 18 chapters?

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

If there were 50 chapters, I would give it 5 stars. My kid loves it, but he gets very frustrated that he cannot jump right to the stories he wants to hear. I will contact customer support. If they cannot fix it, I'll get a refund and find another way to get this audiobook in proper digital format.

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Very Nice

These are well done, back to back and seem to captivate my 4 and 7 year old children in the back seats while I drive. I only wish the reader would announce the end at the close of each story as there is a time of reflection on what each story meant that I think the children and I with the children could benefit from. What I've started doing, when I'm listening with the children (and not talking to my passenger or just concentrating on my driving) is to say "The end." in an announcement fashion. Sometimes I stop the recording at this point to ask what lesson did each child learn, starting with the 4 year old. Nearly every story has a lesson and the children love to hear the stories over and over it seems. I highly recommend this collection.

9 people found this helpful

Terrible, boing narration.

We tell fairytales often so they are old friends. I downloaded this book to save my voice. Unfortunately the narration is dull, boring and slightly less than human. I almost wondered if it was an automated computer narration. The kid begged me to turn it off pretty quickly, even though they love the stories. “She’s boring, you tell the stories.” Rhys defeating the point. I would never buy or listen to another story narrated by this woman.

1 person found this helpful

Great retelling of well known fairy tales

Narrator is excellent, a very good reading voice and beautiful singer. Stories told without over-acting.

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Worst Narration EVER!

Would you try another book from Adapted by Rosemary Kingston and/or Marguerite Gavin?

NO. She reads like a robot. It's like a female text-to-speech engine not a person.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Marguerite Gavin?

A human? Plus fairy tales need music in the back ground if the narrator isn't going to read with any emotion.

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Short and sweet

The stories in this listing are perfect length as a bedtime story. However, they are best READ by a parent, not listened to on a machine. If you lack the time or ability to read them yourself then, by all means, let this book tell the tale. The reader has a pleasant voice.
The best thing about this listen is that it reminds us of the stories we read or heard when we were small and guides us in a selection to read to our children and grandchildren. It is a fast overview of the "Jack" stories.

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Fifty Famous Fairy Tales

The narration is adequate. She doesn't change voices and lacks excitement, but she is easy to understand. The stories are definitely of the older variety -- quite a bit of violence.

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amazeing

it was a blast to the past with all of my favorite storys amazing ten out of ten