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  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas

  • By: Dr. Seuss
  • Narrated by: Walter Matthau
  • Length: 12 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,858 ratings)

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas

By: Dr. Seuss
Narrated by: Walter Matthau
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Publisher's summary

The Grinch, whose heart is two sizes too small, hates Who-ville's holiday celebrations, and plans to steal all the presents to prevent Christmas from coming. To his amazement, Christmas comes anyway, and the Grinch discovers the true meaning of the holiday.

©1957, 1985 Dr. Seuss Enterprises (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group
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perfect 100 stars

my son loved this story, we enjoy the narrative and sounds, the voices who ville, thank you all for doing this.

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Matthau and Seuss, a pair!

Would you consider the audio edition of How the Grinch Stole Christmas to be better than the print version?

Seuss is silly, Matthau is comical, together they present a great Christmas story with lots of emotion. I can't think of any other person to read this story. Delightful!

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I'm no child but I've always loved this story when I saw it was available in audio I had to buy it. i was not disappointed and its short so that I think that my grandkids will sit still long enough to listen to it as well. I loved the narration I saw the story in my head.

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what can I say? its a masterpiece of a book, created by a funny man

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An annual treat.

We enjoy watching Christmas movies every year in December. Now we've added Audible books to our tradition. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is perfect. The narrator has just the right storytelling inflections to keep the listener engaged from beginning to end. We love it!

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Loved it!

I just love the story of How the Grinch stole Christmas. I would read it to my grandchildren every Christmas. When I found this one on audible and found out Walter Matthau was the narrator I jumped for joy. Now my grandchildren love his voice reading the story. They said grandma "we love the way you read too " but the narrator sound more like the Grinch. I agree I like his voice too.

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great story no matter how it is told and it great classic story bye Dr sesus

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A Modern Christmas Classic

If you could sum up How the Grinch Stole Christmas in three words, what would they be?

Favorite Christmas Story

What other book might you compare How the Grinch Stole Christmas to and why?

A Christmas Carol because it is about a grumpy old grouch finally getting the Christmas Spirit.

What does Walter Matthau bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Who better to play an old Grinch than a Grumpy Old Man?!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Definitely, especially in front of the Christmas tree with some hot cocoa and cookies.

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Not the right song!!

Everything is perfect about this but the last song. I imagine they could not get the copyright. I missed that part because I wasn’t prepared for not hearing the song! Now, I know and I’ll be fine. The rest was fabulous.

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Our family loves the grinch!

We are a grinch living family and we love anything that had to do with the Grinch and the cat in the hat.

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