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This engaging collection of seven classic children's stories presented by Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre includes Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Secret Garden, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Each story is performed by a full cast of award-winning voice actors enhanced by sound effects and music. Timeless classics that are sure to entice the imagination of the very young and the young at heart!

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"""Award-winning voice actor Barbara Rosenblat leads an able cast in giving proper nineteenth-century accents and voices to all our favorite iconic characters from one of the most beloved children's classics in the English language...Georgia Lee Schultz...is especially good with the many whispered asides that stitch this adapted version together."" -- ""AudioFile on Alice In Wonderland"" ""Barbara Rosenblat...and a full cast deliver an enchanting interpretation of Burnett's beloved children's story...with animated comments and apt characterizations...Engaging and well-placed sound effects...create a full-bodied sense of place. This audiobook is a treasure and is sure to captivate listeners of all ages."" -- ""AudioFile on The Secret Garden "" ""Georgia Lee Schultz provides a gentle and clear voice for the nineteenth century's most beloved, most precocious child--Alice. All the characters are here in this full-cast audio adaptation of the 1871 sequel to Alice's Adventures In Wonderland...This gentle production for younger listeners is a fine introduction to Lewis Carroll's celebrated wit, wordplay, and surrealistic worlds."" -- ""AudioFile on Alice through the Looking Glass"" ""Georgia Lee Schultz's warm voice is ideal for portraying Snow White, particularly when she talks to her birds. Most impressive is Mary Ellen Herder's Evil Queen; her harsh voice and disturbing cackle are spot-on. First-rate sound effects add atmosphere; for example, when the Evil Queen persuades Snow White to eat the poisoned apple, the crunch is as realistic as the sounds of the birds."" -- ""AudioFile on Snow White"" ""Golden Voice Barbara Rosenblat brings her inimitable vocal energy and joy to every project, and this crisp production with original music is no exception. As with all good fairy tales, the fairies get the best lines, and Rosenblat, Noelle Dupuis, and Ellin Wallin have a wonderful time bickering and bantering as the three buzzing, bee-sized fairies who are in charge of protecting the newborn princess, Sleeping Beauty."" -- ""AudioFile on Sleeping Beauty"" ""This agreeable ensemble cast rendering of Cinderella holds appeal for fairy-tale fans of all ages...Superior sound effects such as the stepmother's demanding bell, Cinderella's sweeping, and the clock striking midnight add to the ambiance. Mary Ellen Herder is fully believable as the spiteful, greedy stepmother whose list of chores for Cinderella is never-ending."" -- ""AudioFile"""

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"English writer and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was especially known for his children's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Besides being classic children's entertainment, they are also distinguished for their satire and verbal wit. The son of a vicar, Carroll was a precocious child who showed early interest in both writing and mathematics. He studied mathematics and was appointed to a lectureship at Christ Church, Oxford. Carroll continued studying and prepared for holy orders for almost thirty years. Although he took deacon's orders in 1861, Carroll was never ordained as a priest. A shy retiring bachelor, Carroll was happiest in the company of children, and his favorite was Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean of Christ Church. On a boating trip up the river Isis, Carroll told Alice and her three older sisters a story of ""Alice's Adventures Underground,"" weaving into it many of the places and things they'd seen on their outings together. Alice was enchanted by the story and begged him to write it down. By the following February, Carroll had written a first draft and decided to publish it as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Although he wrote a wide range of other books, including many on the subject of advanced mathematics, he is best remembered for his children's classics. Wilhelm Grimm and his brother, Jacob, are most famous for their classical collections of folk songs and folktales, especially Children's and Household Tales, which is generally known as Grimm's Fairy Tales. Stories such as ""Snow White"" and ""Sleeping Beauty"" have been retold countless times, but the Brothers Grimm first wrote them down. In their collaboration, Wilhelm, who was the more imaginative and literary of the two, selected and arranged the stories, while Jacob was responsible for the scholarly work. Wilhelm was born in Hanau, Germany, in 1786. His father, who was educated in law and served as a town clerk, died when Wilhelm was young. His mother, Dorothea, struggled to pay the education of the children. With financial help from Dorothea's sister, Jacob and Wilhelm were sent to Kasel to attend the Lyzeum. Wilhelm always suffered from poor health, which made regular work difficult. He was nonetheless more animated, jovial, and sociable than Jacob. After studying law at Marburg, he worked as a secretary at Kassel, where Jacob served as librarian. In 1812, the year their fairy tales were first published, the Grimms were surviving on a single meal a day. Between 1821 and 1822, the brothers raised extra money by collecting three volumes of folktales. With these publications they wanted to show that Germans shared a similar culture and to advocate the unification process of the small independent kingdoms and principalities. In 1829, the brothers moved to Gottingen, where Wilhelm became assistant librarian and Jacob librarian. In 1835, Wilhelm was appointed professor, but they were dismissed two years later for protesting against the abrogation of the Hanover constitution by King Ernest Augustus. In 1840, the brothers accepted an invitation from the King of Prussia, Frederick William IV, to go to Berlin. There, as members of the Royal Academy of Sciences, they lectured at the university. In 1841 they became professors at the University of Berlin, and worked with their most ambitious enterprise, the Deutsches Worterbuch, a large German dictionary. Its first volume appeared in 1854. The work, which totaled sixteen volumes, was finished in the 1960s. The Grimms made major contributions in many fields, notably in the studies of heroic myth and of ancient religion and law. They worked very close, even after Wilhelm married in 1825. Jacob remained unmarried. Wilhelm died of infection in Berlin on December 16, 1859, and Jacob four years later on September 20, 1863. Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a French author and intellectual. Known as a founding writer of the fairy tale genre, he rewrote numerous folk tales, including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Blue Beard, and Puss in Boots. His stories, which continue to enjoy worldwide acclaim, have been adapted to opera, ballet, theater, and film. Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester, England, on November 24, 1849. After Burnett's father's death in 1853, her mother ran the family's iron foundry until the American Civil War caused the business to fail. Destitute, the Hodgsons moved to Tennessee in 1865 to stay with relatives in a log cabin. Burnett lived there until 1873, when she married a doctor, Swan Burnett, whom she later divorced in 1898. She married Peter Townsend, an actor, in 1900. In her teens Burnett had written stories and tales to help support the family and later claimed never to have written a manuscript that was not published. Her first widespread success came with That Lass o' Lowrie's in 1877, a tale of the Lancashire coal mines. But it was the publication of Little Lord Fauntleroy, in 1886, that brought the author fame and wealth and established Cedric as the model for a generation of young boys. Sara Crewe was published in 1888, and the rags-to-riches story was so successful that Burnett revised, expanded, and republished it in 1905 as A Little Princess. The beloved The Secret Garden appeared four years later to enormous critical and popular acclaim. A prolific writer, Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote more than 40 novels and plays and dozens of short stories during her lifetime. She died in Plandome, New York, on October 29, 1924. Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919), born in Chittenango, New York, was a journalist, dramatist, and writer best known for his fantasies about the land of Oz, the first being The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The success of this book led to his writing thirteen sequels. He wrote about sixty books in all, mostly for children. VOICES IN THE WIND AUDIO THEATRE is a Canadian-based production company that produces full-cast dramatizations of classic children's stories. Our award-winning dramatizations have been featured on numerous public and commercial radio stations, podcasts, and other media outlets across North America. In addition, we also produce award-winning children's audiobooks read by seasoned narrators. Blackstone Publishing distributes all these titles. To obtain further information about VOICES IN THE WIND AUDIO THEATRE, check out our website: voicesinthewind.ca VOICES IN THE WIND AUDIO THEATRE is a Canadian-based production company that produces full-cast dramatizations of classic children's stories. Our award-winning dramatizations have been featured on numerous public and commercial radio stations, podcasts, and other media outlets across North America. In addition, we also produce award-winning children's audiobooks read by seasoned narrators. Blackstone Publishing distributes all these titles. To obtain further information about VOICES IN THE WIND AUDIO THEATRE, check out our website: voicesinthewind.ca Diane Vanden Hoven is a Canadian playwright whose credits include This above All, winner of Theatre BC's National Playwriting Competition, and The Twisted Land, which received an honorable mention in the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition. Her works have been featured across Canada. Georgia Lee Schultz is an ATC Seneca Award nominee for Best Leading Actress and has played the lead in Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre's productions of The Secret Garden, Alice In Wonderland, Snow White, and Cinderella. Named ""the gold standard"" of audiobook narrators and ""a voice of the century"" by AudioFile Magazine, Barbara Rosenblat is one of the most beloved artists in the industry, having won an impressive 8 Audies along with over 40 Earphone Awards and the 2010 Odyssey Medal for Best Audio Production. An accomplished theater, film, and television actress, Rosenblat has been featured on Orange is the New Black and has performed both on Broadway and in London's West End theatre. Michael Crouch is an actor based in New York City. His audiobook narration has won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, and Best of the Year accolades from Booklist, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. He can also be heard on national commercials, cartoons, video games, and the anim� series Pok�mon XY and Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V. John Jarvis is a Canadian stage and television actor who is one of the country's most brilliant and versatile performers. ""Christmas Carol,"" which once again delighted audience's remains a favorite, as well as ""Of Human Bondage"" and ""Spoon River,"" both of which he had the good fortune to perform to great success in New York. Recent television and Film include Stockholm, Suits (Season 6 and 7) and Business Ethics."

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