From: Aprilstory at aol.com <Aprilstory>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 02:26:10 EDT

Joining in the conversation about audio books and how they affect reading to our own reading aloud...
  In the case of the Beezus and Ramona books, I wasn't intimidated...I was inspired.
  We loved Stockard Channing's pitch-perfect reading of the Beezus and Ramona books by Beverly Cleary. We listened to them over and over and over again.
  When I read them to my son, I felt I'd had a private lesson from a superb voice actor--I read them with new inspiration and, somehow, with that same slightly husky voice.
  April Halprin Wayland Authors & Illustrator for Children
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