Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
Chris Colfer · 2012
🎙 Narrated by Chris Colfer
73/100
👍 Worth It
Chris Colfer narrates his own fairy-tale mashup and is genuinely funny voicing everyone from the heroines to the Big Bad Wolf — that's the real draw here. It leans on classic witches-and-magic fantasy tropes, so faith-sensitive families should know that going in, though it's played as playful fairy-tale material rather than anything darker. A fun, well-made pick for the 8-12 crowd, and the audio is worth the listen.
✦ 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.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: fantasy witches/magic tropes typical of the genre — heads-up for faith-sensitive families. We still scored it 73; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: excellent Chris Colfer voices the whole cast himself and is praised for convincing, funny character work across heroines and villains.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety75
Substance / usefulness65
Craft & writing80
Originality60
Evidence & accuracy70
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit80
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict73
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