Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Celtic Fairy Tales
Joseph Jacobs · 2011
🎙 Narrated by Cathy Dobson
74/100
👍 Worth It
This is the real deal — the full, unabridged Joseph Jacobs anthology, over six and a half hours of leprechauns, giants, and sea monsters pulled from genuine 19th-century scholarship across Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and Cornwall. It's denser than the shorter Angus collection, so it suits older kids and adults better than very young listeners, but the depth pays off. Cathy Dobson narrates the complete text, though I can't confirm from outside reviews exactly how the performance lands.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: unknown Cathy Dobson narrates the full unabridged text for Red Door Audiobooks, but no independent critic review of the performance itself was located, only publisher marketing copy.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety76
Substance / usefulness82
Craft & writing76
Originality58
Evidence & accuracy78
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit65
Human-eye read70
Penny’s verdict74
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