The Complete Tales of Peter Rabbit and Friends, with eBook (Tantor Unabridged Classics) Audio CD – CD, July 28, 2008

It could be that more people know ABOUT the stories of Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)than actually know them. Peter Rabbit is certainly well known, and all the stories tend to get lumped into the category of toddler tales. Not so! Most of them are for children a little older, who can perhaps even read them themselves as well as enjoy being read to. There are a couple of true picture books for the very young, and a couple of longer stories for older children.But who knew? The way to know is to listen to all the stories yourself, and this audio book makes it very easy to enjoy them with your children or grandchildren. You may be surprised to find that, despite Miss Potter's justly renowned illustrations, the stories are good ones and interesting in themselves.Explain to your youngsters that Beatrix Potter was very interested in farming, and had a farm herself when she was older (actually, she had several); she came to know farm animals very well, and some characters get into other characters' stories because they live together. Any terms you don't quite understand (we didn't know what a patty-pan, a roly-poly pudding, or a stile were) can be very easily looked up on the Internet.All that being said, this is a fine audio book to have. There's nothing fancy about it - it's just quite well done. My grandchildren are enjoying it, and I am, too!

Wish I could give zero. So excited to get this for my kiddo. Got him hyped up, put in the cd into his cd player and it didn't work!! I looked back at the box and it said works on CDs with mp3 capabilities - really?? A book on cd that only works with mp3 capability..???!!! What??? So a cd that doesn't work on cd players. Not cool, going through the hassle of sending it back! Urg!!

We have the book which I read to my kids and in the car we listen to this .... my kids have enjoyed this set for almost 12 years now

I bought the CD version for me and my 5 year old daughter to listen to in the car. The woman who reads the stories uses different voices for the animals which makes these amusing stories even funnier. ALL of Beatrix Potter's tales for children are in it ! I feel these classic books are an essential introduction to literature. AND they frequently make us laugh out loud - in traffic - which is no small feat !!

Wasn't what I expected. Wante4d cd to be for bedtime after stories. Didn't work

You imagine you're being read to by Baetrix Potter herself. We have read the books over and over ourselves but this ads a whole new dimension to the stories. Lovely!!! We could not get the ebook to work (the files appear the wrong format) but we didn't purchase it for this anyways.

We purchased the audio book - which does not play in the car CD player, nor the home CD player, nor the computer CD/DVD player. We have never been able to get this CD to work and it was a complete waste of money. Very disappointing...

This CD does not play in my car's CD player - either player for that matter. I believe that you need to have an MP3 reader not just a standard CD player. A bit disappointing because I had planned to use it in the car.

I was so glad to have found this Beatrix Potter collection on what I thought was to be 1 CD and read entirely in a nice authentic British accent... it isn't.Firstly, innaccurate website description.... this collection is 3 CD's that are essentially in a Daisy CD format, which means they are data discs that can only be played in a PC, DVD or Blu-Ray player or a Daisy Player. THEY DO NOT WORK IN A CD PLAYER and of course, I bought them to play in a CD player...Secondly, the disc quality is not very professional either. The index is mislabelled, as in a few track names are misspelled and 8 tracks from 2 different stories actually have the wrong titles. Weird.On top of that, I bought what I believed was a new copy, turns out disc 1 and 2 are pretty scratched, 3 is not and there is an absolutely horrible smell to the entire product, case and all. Amazon sent me a new copy, no charge, and this copy, of 3 discs, disc 1 and 2 are slightly scratched and disc 3 is quite scratched, thankfully no bad odour. Again, weird.So, I can't play this collection in the cd player at night for some nice relaxing nighttime stories for my kid... which is a real drag.The storyteller, whose name I didn't know, but whose voice I did recognize, is wonderful, it just wasn't the voice I was hoping for... that's only my personal preference for these classic Potter stories. This is not a reflection of the actual quality, however the website description did say, ".... Shelley Frasier... in her British accent..."Of course... each to their own...

Disappointing AMERICAN voice.not an easy listen.comes with little book- more use than the audio!Hard to get onto computer/ ipod etc- strange set up.Wouldn't recommend