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Worzel Gummidge
- Author
- Barbara Euphan Todd
- Narrator
- Jessica Martin
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Publish Date
- 1 August 2017
- Run Time
- 4 hours 51 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Critics Review
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Some children’s classics can strike the ear as dated; Barbara Euphan Todd’s Worzel Gummidge bounces with unrepentant zest from the moment John and Susan sight a scarecrow in the ten-acre field of Scatterbrook Farm and take his battered umbrella to shelter from the rain. Did his arms quiver? Did the features carved into his mangel-wurzel head change expression? Todd’s simple phrasing, embellished with interesting words such as ‘dawdlesome’ and ‘rampageous’, is perfectly pitched for small children; parents will chuckle along with Gummidge’s adventures too. Jessica Martin reads with the crisp clarity vital in a children’s audiobook.
Christina Hardyment, The Times
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Details
- Author
- Barbara Euphan Todd
- Narrator
- Jessica Martin
- Duration
- 4 hours 51 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 August 2017
- ISBN
- 9781781980897
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories
Synopsis
Spending their summer holidays with Farmer Braithwaite and his wife in Scatterbrook, John and Susan come across a particularly lifelike scarecrow in a nearby field. That evening, much to the children’s surprise, the scarecrow makes an appearance in the Braithwaites’ kitchen to warm himself by the fire. He is Worzel Gummidge and he is no ordinary scarecrow. His tendency to cause mayhem wherever he goes sparks a series of mishaps and adventures, often with hilarious results. This is the first of the Worzel Gummidge novels written by Barbara Euphan Todd, originally published in 1936.
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