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  • The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark

  • By: Jill Tomlinson
  • Narrated by: Bill Oddie
  • Length: 40 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (131 ratings)
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The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark

By: Jill Tomlinson
Narrated by: Bill Oddie
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Summary

Plop is a baby Barn Owl. He's the same as every other baby Barn Owl that has ever been - except for one thing: he is afraid of the dark.

A night-time adventure based on the classic story by Jill Tomlinson. Read by Bill Odie, this audiobook includes a soundtrack and a song.

©2004 The Estate of Jill Tomlinson (text), Paul Howard (illustration); Barry Gibson (music and song) (P)2008 Egmont UK Limited

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"[G]reat for calming night-time fears." ( Practical Parenting)

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Lovely book.

This book was my favorite as a child, now its my daughters favorite, 40 years later !

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The most important book in my life

I have a two year old, she won't sleep with out this. Every night I can hear it faintly drifting thought the monitor when she can sleep, or has a bad dream she’ll curl up in my arms and drift off listening to this.

Lucky it's a fairly decent, not the most gripping of storys but much better than pepper pig.

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So so cute

I love it GET it for your children it is really good plop has the cutest voice ever and it is not just because I love owls. Just GET it

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Too wit to what

The main story was reasonable. Unfortunately there were several chapters with nothing in them just a waste of space and time.

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Not as long as the others

We have enjoyed so many of Jill Tomlinsons books on long car journeys so we're looking forward to this one.
It is a short book and is well padded out with songs and acting segments, so not like the others which are long stories.
It might be the sort of thing you would listen to in a kids drama class.

Still good though, well read, and the story is good. But short.

Be aware that you are buying something a bit different and you will not be disappointed.

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beautiful

wonderful book helping children to work through their fears. beautifully piece, well written, very empathetic

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Family favorite

I enjoyed story as a child and now mine do. Helps with bedtime story and easy to listen to. Would recommended to anyone

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fab story

loved it so much and the songs helped my kids go asleep great storytelling fabulous

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This is an abridged version

Have you listened to any of Bill Oddie’s other performances? How does this one compare?

Bill Oddie does a good job, but I grew up with the Maureen Lipman version and that's untouchable for me.

Any additional comments?

This is not unabridged, as advertised. It is heavily edited and misses all of the books wonderful humour.

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Cut short, not the full story. Very annoyed

This is not the full version. This story and tape are one of the very happy memories I have as a child and that's why I know it word for word and this is not the full story and for the price I think that's terrible. Very annoyed would like a refund as I can't listen to this.

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