E-audiobook
The Willoughbys
Record details
- ISBN: 9780739364048 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0739364049 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: New York : Listening Library, 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 2:56:07. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Arte Johnson. |
| Target Audience Note: | Age group: 9-12. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 42189 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Orphans -- Fiction Brothers and sisters -- Fiction Family life -- Fiction Orphans -- Juvenile fiction Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction Families -- Juvenile fiction |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Humorous fiction. Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
Beloved author, Lois Lowry, offers a modern tale with a twist of classic children's literature. Abandoned by their ill-humored parents to the care of an odious nanny, Tim, the twins, Barnaby A and Barnaby B, and their sister, Jane, attempt to fulfill their roles as good old-fashioned children. Following the models set in lauded tales from "A Christmas carol" to "Mary Poppins", the four Willoughbys hope to attain their proscribed happy ending too, or at least a satisfyingly maudlin one. However, it is an unquestionably ruthless act that sets in motion the transformations that lead to their salvation and to happy endings for not only the four children, but their nanny, an abandoned baby, a candy magnate, and his long-lost son too. This hilarious and decidedly old-fashioned parody pays playful homage to classic works of children's literature.
