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The Secret Garden (Radio Theatre)

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My husband and I are avid readers. We have read many classics to our children (aged 5 mo; 2 yrs; 3 yrs; 6 yrs). I know what some of you may be thinking... they don't/can't understand what is happening in the book or won't sit still quietly long enough for anyone else to hear the story. That is somewhat true however, you may be surprised to know how much they do glean from the story and as they become involved in the story will sit quietly (perhaps not so still, though.. ha, ha), but mostly they just want to hear your voice and be with you doing an activity together. We don't read very much at one time, just enough to keep them interested in the book. They love it. That said, we also live four hours one-way away from any of our relatives so spend a fair amount of time in our van. We put in one of the story CD's and everyone is mesmerized. We are all doing the same activity, all talking about or asking questions about the same activity as well as giving our children a "step inside a book" sense.

These dramatized books stay fairly true to the books (unlike a movie version) and keep imagination soaring... everyone gets to imagine the same scene in their own way. We also listen to these for 10 minutes or so after our nightly ritual just before bed. If your CD player (iPod, etc) has a "sleep" setting, it works lovely to send them off to dreamland with a wholesome and wonderful storyline.

This series is quite well done and the characters do not seem like they are "reading" their part. It is more like listening to a play as not only the characters are spectacular, but the background music and noises are perfectly timed. We have many books on CD by this production company and none of them disappoint!