Alison Larkin
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'A Mole Like No Other' by Julia B. Grantham is a fresh, delightful story about a toy mole who is looking for love, friendship and his place in the world.
The tale of Moley and his friends is set in a cosy English country house with a traditional garden. While it is especially popular amongst 5 - 10 year olds, children of all ages will love Moley's adventure, subtle literary references and tongue-in-cheek humor.
This charming new tale is brought...
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Award winning narrator Alison Larkin brings her signature wit and charm to this Audiofile Earphones Award winning recording.
Peter Pan
All children, except one, grow up.' When Peter flies into the Darling home looking for his shadow he teaches Wendy, John and Michael how to fly with him back to the island of Neverland. There they embark on an 'awfully big adventure.
The Inconsiderate Waiter
In the world of the Victorian Club, it does not do for...
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The friends are going on a birthday adventure to visit the Lollipop Garden through the Rainbow Forest. They go down the Lemonade River on a boat that can almost fly. They meet a herd of talking words. Eventually they arrive at a very sickly Lollipop Garden. To cure the Lollipop flowers and save the harvest they must explore the Sweet Rock Cave and outwit an ancient magic.
Likened to Alice in Wonderland, the captivating story of 10-year-old Tickle...
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For lovely, young Miss Patricia Patterson, life seemed a delightful dream-until the specter of her guardian, Lord Charles Gaunt, cast a shadow over her carefree days of idleness and enchanting evenings of dazzling balls and delicious flirtations. Lord Charles demanded she act the part of a proper and perfectly boring young miss. Even worse, he insisted she devote her waking hours to cultivating her mind rather than captivating her swarm of admirers....
65) Jane and Me
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Caroline Jane Knight is the last of the Austen Knight family to grow up at Chawton House, the sixteenth-century English manor house on the ancestral estate where Jane Austen lived and wrote. Caroline ate at the same dining table, read in the same library, explored the same country lanes and shared the same dreams of independence as Jane Austen did.
But when she was seventeen, Caroline and her family were forced to leave the home her family had lived...
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Alice in Wonderland and Jabberwocky are brought to sparkling new life in this brilliant recording by internationally acclaimed comedienne Alison Larkin, and Audie Award-winning narrator Derek Perkins.
The recordings are followed by a short excerpt from the Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll, by Carroll's nephew Stuart Dodgson Collingwood.
Cover illustration by Lisa Cavender.
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After a busy day what could be better than getting into bed and listening to some of the world's most beloved classic bedtime stories exquisitely read by Alison Larkin and iconic British actress Virginia McKenna, OBE? Larkin's hugely popular reading of Alice in Wonderland is followed by Beauty and the Beast and The Princess and the Goblin.
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The first great fantasy novel, The Princess and the Goblin, published in 1872, had a strong influence on C S Lewis and J R Tolkien - who have inspired many of our greatest writers of modern-day fantasy, from J K Rowling to Sarah J Maas.. It is loved by fans of fantasy fiction to this day.
Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives in a remote mountainous region with no one but her nursemaid for company. Then she meets a mysterious old woman and Curdie,...
70) Bedtime Stories
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These beautifully read bedtime stories are perfect to listen to at the end of a busy day.
Alison Larkin's AudioFile Earphones award winning narration of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is followed by her hugely popular reading of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and The Birthday Dinosaur by Alison Larkin.
In addition to being the narrator of over 250 audiobooks, including The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Alison Larkin is...
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Based on the theme 'The Wonder of Words', the fourth year of the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation short story writing competition attracted a wonderful range of original stories that were a delight to read. Three finalist stories were chosen by the special Jane Austen Literacy Foundation judging panel including Susannah Harker (Jane Bennet, BBC Television Pride & Prejudice 1995) and Natalie Jenner (International bestselling author of The Jane Austen...
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Award winning audiobook narrator, bestselling author and comedienne Alison Larkin selects and introduces fairytales of strong, independent, brave, at times irreverent girls and women who take charge of their lives, go on their own adventures, rescue themselves and sometimes even save the men they love. These are not stories of helpless females shut up in high towers waiting around for a handsome man to rescue them while they sleep for years or from...