Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
Silver on the Tree
- Book 5 of The Dark Is Rising Sequence
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
99p for the first 3 months
Silver on the Tree
Buy Now for £12.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
Summary
Critic reviews
"[Alex Jennings] is a master of dialogue, slipping effortlessly into the cadences of children's voices and characterizing accents from around the British Isles and beyond. This is a satisfying conclusion to the series." (AudioFile)
More from the same
What listeners say about Silver on the Tree
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance2 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Jon Buckeridge
- 11-10-23
Great story, awful recording
The sound quality on this recording is not good at all, and it sounds tinny and rough compared to the rest of the series. Add to that, the Welsh accents and pronunciations are shocking. Given that the book before has several sections where the character of Bran explains to Will how to pronounce all of these words and locations, you'd figure the production team could have grabbed the information they needed pretty easily.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance2 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Penni Bestic
- 27-04-21
Very bad use Welsh
I have been fond of Susan Cooper’s books for a long time. I just had fun listening to the dark is rising but when I heard the Silver on the tree I could not under the crass stupidity in having a narrator whose grasp of Welsh was simply appalling. I don’t know if he realised that Wales is a country of many dialects, both English and Welsh. The narrator of the Grey King was brilliant and understood to the subtlety of colloquial welsh. I think you need to re-,record the book as soon as possible.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 21-02-17
Wonderful story
A wonderful epic story! Highly recommend it! This book brings the stories in the previous books together.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Dorothy
- 03-10-12
Final part of one of my favourite sequences
Love this but please can't you get 'Over sea, under stone' and 'The dark is rising'?
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Morag Sutherland
- 07-08-23
Frustrating listen if you speak Welsh
Love this series, and the 4th book was read by someone who was excellent at pronouncing all the Welsh. This reader wasn't at all good. This made for a disappointing and annoying listen as a Welsh speaker, particularly as the correct pronunciation is carefully explained by one of the characters to another during the 4th book !
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Fiona298
- 28-01-22
Terrible Accents!
Alex Jennings is a great actor, but he really shouldn’t have read this book. His Welsh accent and pronunciation are dreadful. “Dyfi” as “diffy”, for example. Was there nobody to advise him?
There was a different narrator for The Grey King, whose accents and pronunciation were perfect. He should have done this one too.
Jennings’ voicing of the English characters was good, and the story is good, but the Welsh ones were terrible, and very off-putting.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Dreow
- 12-04-17
Has to be one of the best tales ever.
Replayed over and over. A book I will never tire of. Thank you for the dreaming.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 06-06-18
great ending to the sequence
I love these stories and they have been beautifully narrated - the only criticism I can make of Silver on the Tree is the appalling Welsh pronunciation throughout.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- MS V.
- 06-03-19
wonderful except so called Welsh ..
fantastic and wonderfully written story , great to revisit it as an audiobook , except for the pronunciation of the welsh , which was very disappointing , especially in this epic tale where the essence of Wales and welshness is an inextricable part of the whole story. An unexpected shortfall in an otherwise excellent audio experience.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- MR T LUMLEY
- 08-03-23
Excellent story poor pronunciation
Excellent story however as someone who has lived in the village of Aberdyfi for over 40 years it a pity Alex Jennings didn't learn how to pronounce Aberdyfi correctly as well as other Welsh words and place names in the story.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!