Do you have 13 minutes to listen and look at this book question?
I know I probably wouldn't, ha!
But I do believe the 13 minutes to listen and watch this book is worth it.
As a young child, I was not crystal clear why I read this book so often but looking back I now know -- the author respected me, a young kid, by writing about such topics in a realistic way.
A good teaching story for kids of the right stage of education and ability.
I found the reading style of the audiobook a bit too slow, the tone of voice too flat and depressing, even though the story has a happy ending. Because of that, I'd rather give a child the book than the audio version.
I thought it would suit kids from about 6-9 if the parent does the reading - because that's the age when kids natural development starts to shift from fantasy to concrete reality. The publishers recommend 9 -12 years old presumably because, by then, a kid can read for him or herself.
I forget the actual age I first started reading the book. :)
Yeah, this reader in the video is not too impressive, for the reasons you shared. I so equate the book with my reading it by myself, to myself, that hearing the words spoken doesn't work for me so well. I think I could have done a better job of reading it out loud than the reader here. :)
It's the work thing. I just don't have the time is all. I would watch a two hour vid if you recommended it, I just cannot do anything for 15 minutes at once right now. A thousand pardons, Welb.
Yeah, there are a lot of things going on in my life at the moment (some of them unnecessary - - like excess worry and, admittedly, creating my own worries; 'no worries' and 'not to worry' - - expressions I admire because they are goals for me) - -
yeah, lots of things and doing one of those things was where I came across this book from my childhood -- I even saw where I printed my name very nicely in the front of the book.
The book for me, I've decided, may be best when read alone and silently -- I base that only on the fact that that is the way I always read it as a child/young guy. And the reader in the video is rather lackluster. Ha! :)
And this movie popped into my head when I read you'd watch a two hour video. :)
I don't know this movie's time length but I found if FASCINATING. And actor Arno Frisch is in it - - he's always great (and great looking). That's him in the image - - I've seen better images of him, though he looks great here, of course. These three all were great -- they're the main people in the movie.
Benedict Arnold 