The Beasts of Clawstone Castle [Audio CD]

Eva Ibbotson (Author), Jenny Sterlin (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2006

While spending the summer with elderly relatives at Clawstone Castle in northern England, Madlyn and her brother Rollo, with the help of several ghosts, attempt to save the rare cattle that live on the castle grounds.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Recorded Books (2006)
• ISBN-10: 1428121838
• ISBN-13: 978-1428121836
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,724,003 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New book by Ibbotson, December 13, 2005

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microjoe - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beasts of Clawstone Castle (Hardcover)

This book was published in England in May 2005 and will release in USA in 2006. So I bought the British copy as I could not wait for another marvelous story from Eva to send me into stitches of laughter.

In the story a brother and sister, Madlyn and Rollo, are sent to stay with their kindly Uncle at his "Castle Clawstone" set in the Scottish Highlands. On arrival they find out the dreamy sounding castle is falling apart. The castle is under a huge debt and no funds are available for repair. There are friendly ghosts living in the castle, as well as some rare wild white cattle living on the property and they are at risk if the castle isn't saved. And who is the mysterious being hiding in the library? The siblings have auditions with ghosts to find the best ghosts to scare visitors to complete their plan to turn the castle into a haunted tourist attraction. As usual; Ibbotson's ghosts are nutty as they can be including the Bloodstained Bride ,a pair of hairy Scottish feet without a body, a girl cut in half in a magic act, and others. Madlyn turns out to be a natural financial genius and they start making money. But a neighbor has very evil plans for the cattle, and it will take every effort by the siblings and their new alllies to fight back. I highly reccommend!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly wonderful writing, and totally satisfying audio book!, April 15, 2011

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J. Schwarz "Informed Woman" (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Beasts of Clawstone Castle (Audio CD)

Eva Ibbotson was an incredible writer, often laugh out loud funny, always amazinfly inventive. I am really sorry that unless someone finds unpublished stories among her archives, we will have no more new books from her silenced pen since she died in 2010. On the other hand, THIS book is a treasure trove for all ages. You don't have to be a middle school child to enjoy her books. Now that I am retired, I am on a quest to find all of her books that I missed earlier, and rereading (or,m in this case, relistening) to ones I enjoyed earlier. The woman knew how to tell a story, how to keep us on the edge of our seats and how to take us the readers on a most satisfying journey. Most of all, Ms. Innotson knew how to wrap it all up in excellent style at the end with the bad guys getting what was coming to them, and the characters you worried about so much ending in sometimes surprising happiness that they didn't even know to hope for.
I will say that I listened to this on my portable CD player in a darkened room, recovering from an accident, and I had to speed past a couple of honestly too-scary short sections. Maybe it was the meds I was on, and maybe in reading it, it would not have had such effect on me. Jenny Sterlin, the reader who performed all the parts, was terrific, all the voices very different and very right for each character and the particular emotion they felt in different scenes. Loved this book!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Audio book of The Beasts of Clawstone Castle, March 1, 2011

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This review is from: Beasts of Clawstone Castle (Audio CD)

This is a wonderful story. I got it so that my fifth graders could listen to it, but I've kept it in my car. David Tennant's voice is a dream to listen to, which is the reason I decided to purchase it in the first place. I was not disappointed.
Several hours of an enchanted voice and a good story. You can't go wrong with that combination.