Would, for example, publisher Quill Tree Books have a different narrator in Ireland itself for this book, should that come up? I only ask because I thought the job that Ms. For the first time it got me wondering about audiobooks in different nations. Here, narrator Megan Trout had to utilize a believable, but still comprehensible to young American ears, series of different Irish accents. She won’t tell Breda who her dad is, and to top it all off now Breda’s in another country with a man who makes her eat fish the first night she’s there (which she promptly upchucks all over the floor). Her single mom is always working on her business and is never around. Never mind that Breda is just seething with the unfairness of it all. A hard, quiet man, she’s been sent there for stealing. The same grandfather her mom can’t talk to for two minutes on the phone without crying. And I guarantee your kids won’t fall asleep in the process!īreda’s Island by Jessie Ann Foley, narrated by Megan Troutīreda’s just been packed off to Ireland to spend the summer with her grandfather. A lot happens in a very short amount of time, and much of that is a credit to the pace at which Rebecca reads. I liked the tempo of this book particularly. She has to walk this thin line between Pesah’s calm tones and Ziva’s hot temper. Narrator Rebecca Gibel has the tricky job of making Ziva likeable when the text is doing everything in its power (at least at first) to make her anything but. When the two find themselves on a mission to the city of Luz where the Angel of Death cannot follow with a half-demon boy as their guide, it’ll take all their skills together to escape his grasp. As she says at one point, she’d poke out all the eyes on the Angel of Death if she had to, to keep Pesah with her. Loves him so much that she’s not going to let a little thing like leprosy (known today as Hansen’s disease) stop her. The heroine of this book, Ziva, loves her brother. A remarkable final product!īlack Bird, Blue Road by Sofiya Pasternack, narrated by Rebecca Gibel All told, this has the feel of a full-cast when, in fact, there are really only 2-3 people at work here. Jane’s basically a character in this book (playing herself) and it would have been downright odd not to get her to do her own voice. You’ll note that in my credits I’ve listed writer Jane Yolen. As far as I can tell Pete Cross is doing the bulk of the heavy lifting, but whenever we hear strongly worded letters from the community, we suddenly are engulfed in a range of other voices. Some producer made the choice to make this book sound full-cast. But what we’re talking about here today is the audiobook experience itself, and this one’s fascinating. I mean, she’s an excellent writer too, no question, but so are a lot of folks. That’s why it came as a bit of a relief to me to see that the author of this book was A.S. I mean, we’ve seen books about censorship of books before, right? Even when I was a kid we had the novel The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff (circa 1982, thank you very much). In any other author’s hands, this book could have run into danger of didacticism or, at the very least, boredom.
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