Children’s Favorites, Vol. 1

Kids love it

What did you love best about Children’s Favorites, Vol. 1?

Personally I didn't like it because there are 42 tracks and no one knows which order they are in, so the kids would ask for a story and it would take me forever to find it! However the
Kids love the original stories which start at track 21.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Peter Pan is our favorite story!

Any additional comments?

Here are the Tracks in order
1 Intro ~ Bedtime Stories ( Not the commonly known stories!)
2 Bonnie
3 Lion king
4 Bambi
5 Lilo & Stitch
6 Mickey Mouse
7 Sleeping Beauty
8 Monsters INC ~ Sleep Over
9 Cinderella ~ Bedtime for Gus
10 101 Dalmatian
11Peter Pan to the rescue
12 Finding Nemo Dori's Birthday
13 Dumbo
14 Bunnies Day with Papa ( Bambi)
15 Pinocchio Nose for Trouble
16 Aristocats Cozy Carriage
17 Winnie the Pooh ~ Sleep over
18 Aladdin
19 Donald Duck ~ Camping
20 Cars

Originals ~ Story Book Collection

21 Bambi
22 Snow White
23 Lion King
24 Peter Pan
25 3 little Pigs
26 Hercules
27 Beauty and the Beast
28 Mickey and the beanstalk
29 Aristocats
30 Little Mermaid
31 Jungle Book
32 Cinderella
33 101 Dalmatian
34 Lady and the Tramp
35 The Prince and Pauper
36 Pocahontas
37Sleeping Beauty
38 The Hunchback from Notre Dame
39 Oliver and Company
40Aladdin
41 Pinocchio
42 End

96 of 97 people found this review helpful

Glad we bought it, but ...

Would you try another book from Disney Press and/or Tavia Gilbert and Richard Smalls ?

Yes

What did you like best about this story?

The stories are varied and largely well read.

Did Children’s Favorites, Vol. 1 inspire you to do anything?

I will be wary about buying collections like this in the future because they are a pain to navigate, especially when driving.

Any additional comments?

Label the chapters! There is a lot of content in this purchase -- which is nice -- but the chapters aren't listed or labeled anywhere, so a request to, "Play Peter Pan!" takes me AGES, clicking on each chapter and letting it start to play to figure out what it is.

61 of 62 people found this review helpful

Total twaddle

Don't be duped by the branding. These are poor quality, terribly simple "stories", written in a boring, passive tone with no language enrichment and big, cheesy morals. Even with a great reader, these stories are awful. I regret the purchase!

7 of 7 people found this review helpful

No track names!

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I would, with reservations. It's 4 hours long with no names of tracks so if you want to find a specific story you have to remember the track number or get there by trial and error. Frustrating!

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

Adding track names.

What about Tavia Gilbert and Richard Smalls ’s performance did you like?

Lovely performances. My three year old calls them the mommy stories and the daddy stories.

Any additional comments?

I would love it if the Audible app allowed for a timer to be set, and if the tracks could be labeled, and put into play lists. Some of the stories I would rather my son not hear until he is older, others are fine. But there is no way to edit into a playlist that I can find.

5 of 5 people found this review helpful

Awful and thin. Kids hated it.

Story lines were so thin as to generate zero interest for kids. Narration okay but narrators had nothing to work with.

4 of 5 people found this review helpful

Too violent for a little ears

Some of the stories talk about death and have lots of fighting. It's too much for children under five. Beware. .

6 of 8 people found this review helpful

Not Happy

The problem is there is no way to go to the next story. The audile starts at the same point and does not allow you to skip a story. It also does not show you all the stories in the book. I wish it was a way I could review the book and listen to whatever chapter we want to enjoy.

Dull

Stories are summaries of Disney movies and cartoons. Although my granddaughter (age 7) didn’t complain, I found them boring and lacking any literary interest.

my child listened for hours.

this was a great retelling of the classics, and some new versions of stories. good narrators. my child loved it.

Horrible

All this story collection talks about is true love and how in order to find happiness you have to find it and it all ends with happily ever after after finding it. It’s not good for young children or older kids either. It’s quite horrible.