Description

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(includes My Father’s Dragon, The Reluctant Dragon, The Dragon Diaries)

Master storyteller Jim Weiss will delight families with this collection of dragon stories. My Father’s Dragon and The Reluctant Dragon are full-length recordings of beloved children’s novels by Ruth Stiles Gannett and Kenneth Grahame (author of The Wind in the Willows), in which resourceful children must rescue friendly dragons from danger. The Dragon Diaries features an assortment of myths, legends, and folk tales from around the world, stories in which dragons might be fearsome adversaries, wily tricksters, or mysterious allies for those who encounter them. Jim’s entertaining and literate audio tales make long car rides and rainy days a joy rather than a trial, and introduce children to the great stories and rich language of the world’s classics. Over three hours of audio adventures! Ages 7 and up. Format: Three Audio CDs

About the Author

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In 1989, Jim Weiss set out on a mission: to record the greatest stories he knew from world literature and history, and inspire families -- especially young listeners -- with a passionate love of the original classics. In the three decades since then, Jim's narration voice and seemingly numberless character voices have formed foundational entertainment and education for millions of listeners around the world.Winning hundreds of awards, Jim’s recordings range on the literary side from fairy tales through stories from Shakespeare, Dickens and Conan Doyle, while his history recordings bring to vivid life major historical events and personalities from the ancient world through the twentieth century.The inspiration for all this began early, with parents and grandparents who told stories and read aloud to him, skills which Jim joyously acquired, and which led him to a degree in Communications and Speech from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Later, his wife, Randy, earned her own national awards as a teacher and counselor, and their shared passion for learning led to forming their company in 1989, long before the explosion of spoken word recordings made this a "sensible" decision. The recordings began winning listeners and national awards from the first. A few years ago, the Weiss's licensed their recordings and business operations to Well-Trained Mind Press, which has successfully introduced Jim's work into still more markets, while Jim continues to write, record, teach and perform.

Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) was a British writer, most famous for his children's classics The Reluctant Dragon (1898) and The Wind in the Willows (1908).

Crystal Cregge is a Graphic Designer, Illustrator, and Animator who graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. She originally grew up with dreams of being a comic book artist but found her love of telling stories through imagery could be expressed in many mediums. Her work has ranged from children’s books, audiobooks, commercials, tv shows, magazines and postcards and even Virtual Reality. No matter the medium, she has worked with many notable clients to help bring their ideas to life.

In the rare moment when she isn’t making art, she can be found curled up with a good book and a great cup of coffee.

Rebecca Jensen loves telling stories and drawing pictures, so becoming an illustrator made perfect sense. She currently lives and works in Utah, creating art for children’s books, magazines, posters, cards, and anything else people will let her draw on.