Customer Reviews

Lilly's Big Day and Other Stories

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I thought after reading the reviews, this would be great for my 3 year old, but it's not our cup of tea. The way the characters were treating eachother didn't feel appropriate for young kids. My son copies a lot of what he sees and hears and I wouldn't want to reinforce some of the behavior in these stories. He's not quite old enough to get the moral of the story without copying imbibing all of it.

I am a Pre-Kindergarten teacher and at nap time we listen to stories that the kids enjoy and "Lilly's Big Day and Other Stories CD" is great the kids ask to listen to it every day. This is a great CD !!!

My 7-year-old child has been asking to hear this over and over again since she received it as a present 10 days ago. In my opinion, the production could have used a little music here and there, to make it more lively, but my daughter doesn't seem to need anything more than the CD offers. The narrations (which are by different narrators, both male and female) are clear, and nice.

I have to add, that before she got this CD, my daughter had been watching the Scholastic DVD that includes some of the Kevin Henkes' stories featured in this CD... so that probably helped to make it more alive.

I absolutely love this CD. My children are 2 and 4 yrs, and they ask for it every day on our commute. The voices of the narrators are absolutely perfect, (there's just something about hearing "John Boy" from the Waltons tell you a story...Richard Thomas is one of the narrators:).
And I would like to find more work from Christine Ebersole, she is so fabulous, especially the last story, 'Lilly's Big Day'. She captures the voice of a sweet, desperate girl longing to be a flower girl so perfectly, I almost got choked up near the end!
My son adores the first story, 'a weekend with Wendall' and he laughs his head off every time he hears the terrible things Wendall does to Sophie.
I would highly reccomend it!
P.S. Because I'd never read the books, I didn't know until I saw the link here that all these characters are mice! It doesn't say in the CD (except for something about a pink nose and fur, but I just thought that was funny)I think it's great that they're easily imagined either way..

My daughter's (4 & 5) love this CD. They will listen to it over and over. I enjoy listening to them laugh at each of the cute stories included on this CD.

This is an outstanding product. All of the stories on the CD are terrific and it can be enjoyed by all ages.

Both of my daughter's love all the Kevin Henkes books. We have almost every one of them. I loooked for this audio book CD after our pediatrician recommended a book on tape to help my oldest daughter (6) sleep. She has trouble falling asleep a few nights in a row every now and then. He said not to play music, but something spoken and familiar. I knew this would be the perfect choice and it works. We also took it in the car on vacation and occasionally listen to it during dinner.

We just finished conducting an Author Study of Kevin Henkes in my First Grade class and bought this CD for our listening station. My kids love it!!

Both of my granddaughters love to go to bed with a story. If Mommy doesn't have time to read them one, she puts in a CD. Lilly's Big Day was a "BIG HIT". The girls ask for it over and over again when it's bedtime.