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    Snakes and Ladders
    Snakes and Ladders
    Snakes and Ladders
    Audiobook22 minutes

    Snakes and Ladders

    Written by Michael Morpurgo

    Narrated by Cassandra Harwood

    3.5/5

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    At school she’s called “wimpy Wendy” – but Wendy isn’t afraid of Slinky, Grandpa’s snake.

    At school she’s called “wimpy Wendy” – but Wendy isn’t afraid of Slinky, Grandpa’s snake. When she takes Slinky to school and her he wriggles out of her school bag, Wendy will brave anything to rescue him.

    “SOME PEOPLE HAVE goldfish or tortoises or hamsters. Wendy’s Grandpa had a snake, a king snake called Slinky. He was black and gold with little beady eyes and an ever-flicking forked tongue.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateDec 9, 2010
    ISBN9780007371020
    Author

    Michael Morpurgo

    Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain’s best-loved writers for children. He has written over 130 books including War Horse, which was adapted for a hugely successful stage production by the National Theatre and then, in 2011, for a film directed by Steven Spielberg. Michael was Children’s Laureate from 2003 to 2005. The charity Farms for City Children, which he founded thirty years ago with his wife Clare, has now enabled over 70,000 children to spend a week living and working down on the farm. His enormous success has continued with his most recent novels Flamingo Boy and The Snowman, inspired by the classic story by Raymond Briggs. He was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.

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    • 3/5
      I have mixed feelings about this audiobook. To be quite honest, it was rather boring. I thought the set up of multiple chapters was weird considering that the book is actually only one chapter long. The part with the father happening to save the day and happening to have a wife who left him is just too coincidental. There is no way that that would be realistic. The girl should have been punished for lying as well. The narration was alright. I like the overall themes presented in the story. In the end, not the worst but definitely not the best.