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Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi.

Smith of Wootton Major journeys to the Land of Faery thanks to the magical ingredients of the Great Cake of the Feast of Good Children.

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Whimsical Plot • Charming Tale • Excellent Narration • Enchanting Fable • Imaginative Fantasy • Magnificent Voice

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The calliope music is distracting and inappropriate this is not a cute little children’s story. You should edit out the music

Lose the calliope music

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Reread via Audible on a car ride today. Amazing! And Derek Jacobi could read the back of a soup can and leave me enthralled.
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I want to have kids just so I can read them stories like this. I wanted to eat the Twenty-Fourth Year Cake; I wanted to hear Smith Smithson sing while he smithied; and just when my eyes were bugging out of my head because of the beautiful descriptions of Faerie, I remembered it all started with a Master Baker. The story changed hands at least three times, but it was seamless. Each one of the hands could have been a story of Their Own.

I'd rate this a G. Read this to your chilluns! They need more magic. So do you!

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An easy listen for any Tolkien fan. Child friendly and whimsical. Perfecft Tolkien, as always.

Short, Very Cute.

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A different sort of story than one I'm used to reading by Tolkien. I enjoyed it though.

A Nice Short Story

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Delightful multi-generational fairy-story, full of clever twists and turns, and with a charming outcome. Very well narrated.

Delightful fairy-story

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