Customer Reviews

Magic Tree House CD Edition Books 17-24

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I really enjoyed the CDs but it was read a lot faster than I personally read to my students. We have to listen to the CD twice in order to understand some things.

These are wonderful stories for young children. They are very entertaining, suspenseful but not scary, and informative. My daughter is always saying, "Daddy, guess what? Did you know..." My only complaint is that some of the stories are often split over two cds.

I was pleased with the compacted CD Holder that keeps the CD's nice and neat without taking up a lot of space. My 7 & 8 year olds love the stories and we use them as a reward for when their work is through. Mary Pope Osborne has a talent of writing and telling stories that present history and make you feel as though you're really there. It's relaxing to me as well and nice to know that my kids are learning and being entertained at the same time.

The Magic Tree House Books, as a series, is excellent for the new, young reader. For boys it is an immediate hook. For girls, it is an important series as it has Annie a strong minded, brave, independent, female lead character.

The AUDIO Collection is significant for its listening skills, vocabulary, and expressions. For the young reader it is important to listen to good stories told well and the audio provides that.

My children listen to the CDs at bedtime over and over again -- it is soothing, educational, and different!

Our kids love reading these books so I thought it would be fun to listen to a few on a recent trip. Unfortunately, the author decided to use a really annoying voice for the sister. My husband and I couldn't bear it.

The stories are great, and serve us well on car rides. The tracks however are not labelled by stories, and a story starts on one CD, and finishes on the next one, so you end up having to shuffle different CDs. We ended up downloading on our ipod, labelling everything ourself and that works out much better.

The cd collection has proven to be very popular in our home of two boys ages 7 and 5. Both like to use the portable cd player and put on the headphones to listen to the stories. They are also great for on the plane with a headset splitter if both want to listen or with individual headphones without the splitter. The whole series of books is excellent (it keeps the attention of the boys) though the story patterns are repetitive. However, my boys do not seem bothered by the repetitive story line as each story has new, interesting information.

I liked this book so much that I read it in less than one day! Very exciting. Highly recommended.

After she reads these books, she still loves to hear the audiobooks over and over. She listens to them on her stereo with her iDog while she's falling asleep at night - a great alternative to radio (too much adult-oriented humor from DJ's in my area for a little girl to be hearing). Wonderfully told and entertaining!

This collection served us very well on our last car trip. We've read all the books already, but the kids are still enthralled.