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Classic Stories for Children

By: Hans Christian Andersen, Joseph Jacobs, George Macdonald
Narrated by: Nicki White, Bart Wolffe, Emma Topping
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An wonderful collection of short stories for children.

©2014 Saland Publishing (P)2014 Saland Publishing

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Needs prescreening for younger children

The stories are the old familiar tales; but in general, they're told in the harshest way possible, which may well be as they were told originally. I prefer the scaled down versions for very young children. Even my eight-year-old grandson was bothered by the parents' actions in the Hansel and Gretel story. He's heard the story many times in other versions including a DVD performance of the opera; but this version actually gave more time to the parents' efforts to abandon their children than to the witch in the forest. We are enjoying some of the stories, but I definitely wouldn't buy it again or encourage anyone else to buy it, unless you're interested in the unabridged versions of classics. I was looking for bedtime stories - my mistake.

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Delightful stories

Yes, these are the original stories, not the jazzed up Disney version is, but they are so great. I especially like that the entire text of 'The Light Princess' by George MacDonald was included.

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