Around the World in 80 Days (Enhanced Version)
Retold By Rachel Armington
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Publisher Description
This classic novel has been abridged and adapted into 10 exceptionally well illustrated chapters and enhanced with complete word-for-word audio narration and back ground composition thereby creating a listen-read-along book. This format is ideal for bilingual education - people learning English as a second language (ESL), English Language Learners (ELL), people of any age intending to improve reading skills and students for whom the original version would be too long or difficult. This product is high-interest, low-readability and has carefully paced audio for use as an audio-visual read-along learning tool. Readers of this version will improve fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and listening skills. Controlled Reading Level B (2.0-3.0).
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The sounds of a chugging steam engine and the orchestral movie-score strains that open this program set the stage for Dale's top-drawer performance of this much-loved adventure story. As one could set a clock by eccentric Phileas Fogg's daily routine, Fogg shocks everyone when he bets his personal fortune that he can complete the trip proposed in the book's title and then sets off on the wild trip. Listeners can almost envision a twinkle in Dale's eye as he delivers the lines of Fogg's traveling companion and man-servant Passepartout in an entertaining, though not over-the-top, French accent. Dale's vibrant, never-hurried reading is pleasantly punctuated by background music of the era at chapter breaks. A bonus afterword notes that this new edition pays homage to Listening Library's very first recording in 1955, of this same book. The added material also mentions the historical and social context of Verne's writings about other cultures, the tone of which would be considered insensitive or offensive by many people today. Ages 8-up.
