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The Griffin Gate
- Narrated by: Emily Wheaton
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Categories: Children's Audiobooks, Action & Adventure
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"[C]ombines the very best of many children's classics in a fresh and highly original way that pulls the [listener] into the world and doesn't let them go until the end." (The Bookbag)
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- joanna hughes
- 28-01-21
Too short.
Enjoy it but need to be lot longer might listen to it again and love music of each new character very soothing not like the music you nominal get as some can be really annoying I would say 9 - 13 years old.