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Five Children and It

By: E. Nesbit
Narrated by: Noëlle Healy
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When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother go digging in the gravel pit, the last thing they expect to find is a Psammead - an ancient Sand-fairy! Having a Sand-fairy for a pet means having one wish granted each day. But the children don't realize all the trouble wishes can cause... The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will grant each of them a wish that lasts until sunset, often with disastrous consequences.

©2019 E. Nesbit (P)2019 MustRead Action & Adventure Classics Family Life Fantasy Fantasy & Magic Fiction Growing Up Growing Up & Facts of Life Literature & Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy
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The story is slow but interesting enough.
I feel sorry for the narrator/reading. She sound young and is trying. The problem is you feel like your in class listening to your teacher reading to you. That combined with the poor audio quality makes this hard to listen to for long times.

The reading makes this painfull

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This is a good story, but it is ruined by the horrible audio. The narrator either has an accent or is just hard to understand.

Terrible audio

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Alrighty then. I couldn't even get through the first minute of the book. Mainly because of the narrator. Her voice is so tiny and she sounds like she is reading while she is in the bathroom.
I will be back later when I get more time to listen and then I will leave a much better (what I feel about the book)
I think that if I did have a few kids it might be a fun listen. But I don't have any.

a bad beginning

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This narration is appreciated for jts convenience but this should be free. I wouldn’t have paid for it!

Novice Narration

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could nit finish the book. the reading was very bad breathy, reading speed is bad, noise quality is awful.

story is great reading I'd awful.

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The narration is almost impossible to hear - it fades in and out and is unclear. The narrator might not be too bad with more practice and better equipment but this recording is truly awful. I bought this (for under $2) to go with my kindle purchase of the book so my kiddos could listen while reading - looks like we’ll just be reading on the kindle. …and I want my $2 back!

Terrible Recording

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Couldn’t understand her or hear her. Poor quality and very disappointed we had to buy a new version.

Poor quality

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