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The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark

By: Jill Tomlinson
Narrated by: Bill Oddie
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About this listen

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 Animals Animals & Nature Growing Up & Facts of Life Humorous Fiction Literature & Fiction

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Critic reviews

"[G]reat for calming night-time fears." ( Practical Parenting)
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This book was my favorite as a child, now its my daughters favorite, 40 years later !

Lovely book.

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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.

The most important book in my life

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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

So so cute

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

Too wit to what

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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.

Not as long as the others

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

beautiful

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

Family favorite

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

fab story

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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.

This is an abridged version

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This is heavily abridged. Maureen Lipman has done a much better, full length version but unfortunately it’s not available on Audible.

Disappointing

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