Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Russian Fairy Tales
William Ralston Shedden Ralston · 2022
🎙 Narrated by Grace Darling
60/100
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This is the real, complete deal — 51 tales with Ralston's original scholarly framing and folklore figures like Baba Yaga and Koschei, not a thin abridgment. It's worth it for folklore completists, but the dense academic introductions may test casual listeners, and nobody's reviewed how Grace Darling's narration actually holds up over eleven-plus hours.
✦ 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 Grace Darling is confirmed as narrator, but no reviews assess the actual delivery over this long, dense collection.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety68
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing58
Originality62
Evidence & accuracy62
Hype vs delivers40
Age-fit58
Human-eye read42
Penny’s verdict60
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