Series: Magic Tree House (Book 9)
Audio CD
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio) (August 23, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307245268
ISBN-13: 978-0307245267
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 6.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
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Age Range: 5 - 8 years
Grade Level: Kindergarten - 3
We try to listen to books on tape every time we get in the car. We usually listen to biographies but these were a welcome addition for the younger of my 5 that everyone enjoyed. The narrator's voice is really annoying, it's way too passive for a great audiobook, but I seemed to be the only one who noticed. These are fun stories with some good historical sticking points along the way. A fun way to reinforce and add good mental pictures to the history we have already learned.
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.
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.
We enjoy the Magic Treehouse books on CD but this will be the last set we buy. I understood that because the stories are only about a half hour each they put 8 books on 5 cds. Fine. Because we enjoy these in the car and in the house I didn't mind putting in a few minutes of effort to copy the split stories onto single cd's for the house, and put the set as purchased in the car. However, the formatting is so unbelievably bad that I couldn't get it done. I wasted more than 2 hours of my life on this project, putting cd after cd in the computer, naming and re-naming tracks. Nothing worked. Three of the five cd's have the track names of CD 1 of SET 1. So three of the cd's are formatted not just with the incorrect track names, but IDENTICAL INCORRECT track names. So every time you put one in the computer it copies over the last cd you ripped.Like another reviewer I wrote to the publisher, and I also received no response. These cd's are garbage.
Granddaughter loves it and listens to them over and over. I would reccommend it to everyone. The only bad thing is there is more than one book on some of the cds. It would be nice if each book had its own cd.
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!
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.
My grandkids loved listening to these stories in my car. They read a lot, but hearing it like this was fun. They listened to them repeatedly. I wish they had this series when I was young! I think it is more difficult to find books boys will like. These a good for both girls and boys.
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