EPISODE · Sep 26, 2017 · 1H 11M
The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine - Philip C. Stead, Mark Twain
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302430 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine Author: Philip C. Stead, Mark Twain Narrator: Francis Gilbert, Keegan-Michael Key, Philip C. Stead, Julia Whelan, Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 11 minutes Release date: September 26, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: A never-before-published, previously unfinished Mark Twain children’s story is brought to life by Caldecott Medal winners Philip Stead and Erin Stead. In a hotel in Paris one evening in the 1879, Mark Twain sat with his young daughters, who begged their father for a story. Choosing a picture from a magazine to get started, Twain began telling them the tale of Johnny, a poor boy in possession of some magical seeds, who finds himself on a quest to rescue a stolen prince. Later, Twain would jot down some rough notes about the story, but the tale was left unfinished . . . until now. Plucked from the Mark Twain archives at the University of California, Berkeley, Twain’s notes now form the foundation of a fairy tale picked up over a century later. With only Twain’s fragmentary script and a story that stops partway as his guide, author Philip Stead has written a tale that imagines what might have been if Twain had fully realized this work. This is a story that reaches through time and brings us the debut children’s book of America’s most legendary writer, envisioned by one of today’s most important names in children’s literature. Read by Keegan-Michael Key and Philip Stead, with Mark Bramhall as the voice of Mark Twain, Julia Whelan as Susy Clemens, and an Editor’s Note read by Frances Gilbert.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302430 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine Author: Philip C. Stead, Mark Twain Narrator: Francis Gilbert, Keegan-Michael Key, Philip C. Stead, Julia Whelan, Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 11 minutes Release date: September 26, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: A never-before-published, previously unfinished Mark Twain children’s story is brought to life by Caldecott Medal winners Philip Stead and Erin Stead. In a hotel in Paris one evening in the 1879, Mark Twain sat with his young daughters, who begged their father for a story. Choosing a picture from a magazine to get started, Twain began telling them the tale of Johnny, a poor boy in possession of some magical seeds, who finds himself on a quest to rescue a stolen prince. Later, Twain would jot down some rough notes about the story, but the tale was left unfinished . . . until now. Plucked from the Mark Twain archives at the University of California, Berkeley, Twain’s notes now form the foundation of a fairy tale picked up over a century later. With only Twain’s fragmentary script and a story that stops partway as his guide, author Philip Stead has written a tale that imagines what might have been if Twain had fully realized this work. This is a story that reaches through time and brings us the debut children’s book of America’s most legendary writer, envisioned by one of today’s most important names in children’s literature. Read by Keegan-Michael Key and Philip Stead, with Mark Bramhall as the voice of Mark Twain, Julia Whelan as Susy Clemens, and an Editor’s Note read by Frances Gilbert.
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