Customer Reviews

Magic Tree House CD Collection Books 9-16

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4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Wow. My wife and I were going on a long car trip with a 5, 3 and 1 year old, and wanted an alternative to the DVD player and Disney movies. What a find!!! Our 5 and 3 year old were silent and tranfixed on these stories for over 4 hours. that was 3 months ago. Now, our five year old spends her "quiet time" in her room, coloring and listening to these great stories. They are not silly or sassy (like some others), they are educational, smart and riveting tales featuring strong and confident children. For our girls, it is especially gratifying to have them listen to stories featuring a girl (Annie) who doesn't talk endlessly of princesses and dresses. A huge bonus is we actually like listening to them also!!!! These books on CD are simply amazing. On Saturday mornings, our girls get up and listen to the stories in their rooms, while playing quietly!!!! We have found the holy grail of parenting, and it was hidden in a Magic Treehouse!

My 6 year old and I have enjoyed listening to these fantastic adventure books on CD. Mary Pope Osborne did an incredible job of weaving her stories chapter by chapter. The story plot keeps a child engrossed for the duration of the book. It is a great mode of entertainment for long trips. We recommend this to parents of young children. Her stories are G rated for ages of 3-4 year olds and up.

The stories are addictive and the narration is terrific. My 4 kids, ranging in age from 4 to 8 all love the books and opt to listen to the CDs instead of using the car's DVD player. They are better saved for longer trips, but each book has about 10 chapters, so there are natural breaks in the story. It will keep everyone's interest for at least an hour or two before you'll want to swap-out Jack and Annie for some Springsteen or Sinatra. The stories are exciting but not scary, and there is an educational element to them as well.

My kids and I love the Magic Tree House books! I can't give this audio book 5 stars, though, because of how Random House formatted the books on CDs. Rather than giving one CD per book, the 8 books are spread across 5 CDs. When my kids are listening to a book at bedtime, I don't want them to have to get up and change CDs halfway through a book, let alone try to find the start of a book in the middle of a CD. I wish Random house had spent the tiny bit of extra money to have one CD per book, and to print a picture of the book cover on each CD.

To make matters worse, on this CD set, Random House did not create a separate track for each chapter. Some tracks contain two chapters, others contain one. My poor kids can't find where they left off easily.

I'm fixing the first problem by making copies for my kids, including the tracks for each book on a separate CD, and printing labels using book cover images. For those who aren't technically savvy, this isn't the best solution. Random House, please think about the audience (4-8 year old kids) before skimping like this again.

My daughter has struggled with reading since the first grade. She will begin the third grade in a week. We discovered the Magic Tree House Collection while participating in our local library's summer reading program. She fell in love with the characters Jack and Annie and their adventures. She has a desire to read now that she did not have before-which makes things much better for the both of us. The CDs reinforce what she reads and this has helped her tremendously.

This series has been a life saver for me with 2 boys, 3 and 5yrs old who used to bicker all the time in the car. They love the stories and beg me to put them on. I don't know what I will do when I finish book 16, hopefully the rest come out on cd soon.

My 7 year old son loves the Magic Tree house books. He has the whole collection and asked for the books on CDs. Since he has gotten them for Christmas he listens to them constantly. Great for long trips.

The content gets five stars. However, the CD production was incredibly sloppy. Some of the stories are split between CDs which I suppose is minor if you are listening from a physical CD, but if you are ripping them into iTunes it makes it impossible to rip each story as an individual file.

Above that, they have ***mis-labled many of the files***. I had to go through the entire thing and repair the file names so that they would plan in iTunes in order. It will cause you an extra few hours annoyance to re-label the files.

Do not buy this CD. You can get all of these stories for in pristine audio files with accurate chapter markers from Audible.com for only slightly more.

Both my 3 and 5 year old daughters love all the chapters. Its perfect while you're in traffic. They always can't wait to hear the continuation when they get back from the car.

Our son's teacher is reading the books to the kids during rest time in school (5K). We bought the CD books 1-16 and he has listened to them at home in his room and when we take longer car trips. They are priceless! His imagination can run wild, he is engaged and learns quite a bit. We recently had great conversations about volcanos, ocean life and Roman times - all triggered from the Magic Tree House stories. I would say - if your child is into adventure stories, these books are priceless!! We will buy the next batch before going on another long road trip.