Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Brothers Grimm · 2016
🎙 Narrated by Jim Dale, Janis Ian, Alfred Molina, and Katherine Kellgren (full-cast)
75/100
👍 Worth It
A tight, well-chosen 21-tale selection that trades completeness for a genuinely stacked cast — and it delivers, backed by favorable audiobook-review coverage. The narration is absolutely worth the listen: Jim Dale, Alfred Molina, and Katherine Kellgren bring real character variety to stories that can otherwise blur together.
✦ 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: excellent Star-studded, award-winning full cast praised for bringing distinct character variety to the tales.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety72
Substance / usefulness68
Craft & writing85
Originality52
Evidence & accuracy68
Hype vs delivers58
Age-fit68
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict75
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