Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen · 2005
🎙 Narrated by Kate Reading and Richard Matthews
81/100
👍 Worth It
With 30 of Andersen's stories included, this is one of the broadest single-volume collections of his work out there, giving you real range beyond the usual favorites. The two-narrator format trades some of the vocal variety of a full cast for consistency instead. Kate Reading and Richard Matthews turn in a solid, listenable reading that's good company across the long collection.
✦ 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: good Two-person narrator team (Kate Reading, Richard Matthews) rather than a full cast — solid but less per-story vocal characterization.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness85
Craft & writing78
Originality78
Evidence & accuracy85
Hype vs delivers75
Age-fit80
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict81
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