The storyteller, Jim Weiss, has been in town this week. In the past, we have had several of his GA Henty audio books, and the children wanted to go hear him. I was a bit skeptical as I didn't think he would hold the attention of the younger ones. WOW. He is GREAT. He won my gratitude when he autographed our copy of "Wulf the Saxon" before the event.
We were able to hear him TELL THREE STORIES as opposed to reading a book; he is entertaining, hilarious, and fun. If you get a chance to hear him, go. Mike stayed home and studied for ACSC, the older two boys went to work, and the younger 5 and I went to hear the story teller.
We bought a few more CD's (on sale): Jewish Holiday Stories, Mystery for Children, (Edgar Allan Poe, Father Brown and Sherlock Holmes), Uncle Wiggly's Storybook, A Treasury of Wisdom, Come on Seabiscuit (by Ralph Moody), and Beric the Briton (GA Henty)....
I plan to REMEMBER these and pull them into our TOG as we go..... He had some great ones on Greek Myths, but we just finished 3 weeks of reading Greek myths. I'll plan ahead next year.
We NEED more audio books because it appears the girls took our GA HENTY books when they left home.....::snort:: I put the younger ones on notice today "these are FAMILY gifts" - they stay when you leave. ::snort:: (The other GA Henty books were gifts for Krista.)
We were able to hear him TELL THREE STORIES as opposed to reading a book; he is entertaining, hilarious, and fun. If you get a chance to hear him, go. Mike stayed home and studied for ACSC, the older two boys went to work, and the younger 5 and I went to hear the story teller.
We bought a few more CD's (on sale): Jewish Holiday Stories, Mystery for Children, (Edgar Allan Poe, Father Brown and Sherlock Holmes), Uncle Wiggly's Storybook, A Treasury of Wisdom, Come on Seabiscuit (by Ralph Moody), and Beric the Briton (GA Henty)....
I plan to REMEMBER these and pull them into our TOG as we go..... He had some great ones on Greek Myths, but we just finished 3 weeks of reading Greek myths. I'll plan ahead next year.
We NEED more audio books because it appears the girls took our GA HENTY books when they left home.....::snort:: I put the younger ones on notice today "these are FAMILY gifts" - they stay when you leave. ::snort:: (The other GA Henty books were gifts for Krista.)
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We have several of his Cd's. How fun to hear him in person. What was he doing in town? Visiting a library or bookstore? Very neat opportunity.
We got some books in mp3 format from audible.com. I think we had a free subscription for a while that allowed us to get 3 books. Something to look into.
Too funny - I'm reading this tonight & we just listened to Jim Wiess today! :-) We borrowed his Old Testament story CD from the library & listened to the story of Abraham & the Idols. So good!
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Good to hear, Lisa. I'll have to look those up.
So you like these books? I think I keep hearing about people who don't like them. Or maybe I'm mixed up?
Cindy - I emailed you privately - but I'm not sure which books you are talking about. The ones I mention - we LOVE. We've listened to them all since Saturday. LOL
The GA Henty - some hate them - our kids have loved them. We like Jim's audio copies of them as well.
I found some on Greek Myths and Egyptian tales etc....and they fit with our TOG and we liked them as well.
I did NOT like SOTW - but that was the book. I've not heard the audio form and I have no clue.....I didn't like SOTW in that I felt myth/traditon and facts were intertwined too often....I would have to spend lots of time reading to figure out what was actual Biblical and what was the author's conjecture...and my children certainly would have...but many, many MANY love them.....we just didn't.
Hope that answers the question. LOL
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