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A fabulous six-CD audio box-set containing the entire collection of stories by Beatrix Potter, complete and unabridged. The twenty-three tales in this giftset, have never lost their popularity, and sell in their millions all over the world. Meet again the famous characters that children love and adore... PETER RABBIT, SQUIRREL NUTKIN, THE FLOPSY BUNNIES, MRS TIGGY-WINKLE, TOM KITTEN, JEREMY FISHER, JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK and many more. These stories are beautifully brought to life by a talented cast of readers, including Patricia Routledge, Timothy West, Michael Hordern, Janet Maw, and Rosemary Leach.
About the Author
Beatrix Potter was born in London in 1866. As a young woman, she studied art and natural history, and she started her career as children's author and illustrator with the publication in 1902 of the hugely successful THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT. She spent the last thirty years of her life in the Lake District working as a sheep farmer and countryside conservationist.
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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Having great actors like wonderful Patrica Routledge (Hyacinth Bouquet, Hetty Wainthropp etc)reading the stories from classic Beatrix Potter's wast universe really is nothing less then magnificent!
This compilation is a fantastic gift for children and adults alike. Beautifully presented in a pack of 3 double cd's in a carboard caseing, it is easy to store as well.
23 stories consisting of a good six hours listening! All of the characters in Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck, Jeremy Fisher and the rest, really comes to life!I just love this, as does my children.
Well worth buying!
This compilation is a fantastic gift for children and adults alike. Beautifully presented in a pack of 3 double cd's in a carboard caseing, it is easy to store as well.
23 stories consisting of a good six hours listening! All of the characters in Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck, Jeremy Fisher and the rest, really comes to life!I just love this, as does my children.
Well worth buying!
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
When I was a young child, my father purchased this box set for me in the media of tapes, with two tales to each tape, side-switching necessary to listen to them in extension of one another. For years these tapes were my lullaby, the well-cast narrators relaying classic, well-beloved tales to me to the tune of perfectly composed music. We would choose one for me to listen to and then change it to another when it took my fancy - and I never once grew tired of them or bored with them. These are timeless narrations of classic stories that anyone can listen to. After a move to another house many years ago now, the tapes were lost to me and I was heartbroken, especially since by that time I had acquired a younger sister with whom I wished to share them.
My mother, father and I searched the internet for them, thinking that by now they would have made it to CD or been reissued, and we had no luck - indeed we often found ourselves perusing a similar thing but narrated by American writers or celebrities, and, to me at least, having experienced Patricia Routledge and Michael Hordern read the tales of Mrs. Tiggywinkle and Mr Jeremy Fisher respectively, having grown up with these spectacularly narrated versions, the prospect of anyone else in any other version of the English language reading them seemed inherently wrong. At last though, my mother found this version, and after some checking to ensure that it was indeed the same thing we once had but now in CD format, we bought it, and it has now become my sister's lullaby, just as it was mine.
I have allowed friends with children to borrow it to play to their toddlers to lull them to sleep, and it works wonderfully. Another friend of mine whose first child was struggling with enunciation issues ordered this set to play to the child and not only did he enjoy them, but his speech issues cleared up marvellously within the first few weeks of his listening to them at bedtime - she swears it's because of the exposure to correct pronunciation, and even if it isn't entirely due to that, he certainly enjoys them. My mother enjoys listening to them while she knits, finding them comforting and amusing, and I still like them even after all these years.
This collection, read like this, with the specially composed score accompanying is a classic favourite and should be considered by anyone who enjoys Beatrix Potter, who loves a good bedtime story or 'audiobook', who has children who enjoy any of these things or perhaps are simply in need of something sumptuously english before bedtime, who likes a good scone and a nice cup of tea with their stories, or who remembers these stories from their childhood - I promise that lsitening to them will be an evocative and wholly pleasant experience.
My mother, father and I searched the internet for them, thinking that by now they would have made it to CD or been reissued, and we had no luck - indeed we often found ourselves perusing a similar thing but narrated by American writers or celebrities, and, to me at least, having experienced Patricia Routledge and Michael Hordern read the tales of Mrs. Tiggywinkle and Mr Jeremy Fisher respectively, having grown up with these spectacularly narrated versions, the prospect of anyone else in any other version of the English language reading them seemed inherently wrong. At last though, my mother found this version, and after some checking to ensure that it was indeed the same thing we once had but now in CD format, we bought it, and it has now become my sister's lullaby, just as it was mine.
I have allowed friends with children to borrow it to play to their toddlers to lull them to sleep, and it works wonderfully. Another friend of mine whose first child was struggling with enunciation issues ordered this set to play to the child and not only did he enjoy them, but his speech issues cleared up marvellously within the first few weeks of his listening to them at bedtime - she swears it's because of the exposure to correct pronunciation, and even if it isn't entirely due to that, he certainly enjoys them. My mother enjoys listening to them while she knits, finding them comforting and amusing, and I still like them even after all these years.
This collection, read like this, with the specially composed score accompanying is a classic favourite and should be considered by anyone who enjoys Beatrix Potter, who loves a good bedtime story or 'audiobook', who has children who enjoy any of these things or perhaps are simply in need of something sumptuously english before bedtime, who likes a good scone and a nice cup of tea with their stories, or who remembers these stories from their childhood - I promise that lsitening to them will be an evocative and wholly pleasant experience.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Bought for my four year old Godson, these have proved to be very popular.
If you don't know the stories - get the books, they are fantastic, and as an audio version, a great way of occupying the young with stories that are totally suitable for that age group.
If you don't know the stories - get the books, they are fantastic, and as an audio version, a great way of occupying the young with stories that are totally suitable for that age group.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
The Grandchildren
My grandchildren aged between 7 and 10 years liked to go to bed listening to music so I thought it would be a good time for them to listen to nice calming stories and guess what... Read more
Published 19 days ago by Sylvia
Quality box set
Received this box set as a gift for my 1year old and 4year old girls and it is brilliant. We listen to it in the car, it helps that the girls were familiar with me reading the... Read more
Published 8 months ago by C. Challis
perfect gifts
this item was a gift for my grandaughter and though she is a bit too young to appreciate it her parents were very pleased with it as they like the classic stories.
Published 13 months ago by tabbycat
BEWARE!
I bought this with the audio of 'Winnie the Pooh'. 'Winnie' was fine, but, unfortunately, there was a problem with the Beatrix Potter set. Read more
Published 15 months ago by disappointed
Beatrix Potter Tales
I love the Tales of Beatrix Potter. This is a CD set but now I am looking for the 23 small book set that would compliment the CD's. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Jackie
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