Title: Audio version makes good car listening
Product review: This collection of literary fairy tales by American authors (from the early 1800's to 1922) makes excellent car-ride listening. While adults and kids alike will enjoy the stories, this book offers more than that. An introduction discusses what elements American writers changed or added to the traditionally-European genre of the fairy tale. Each story is also followed by a brief introduction to the story's author that mentions what particularly American elements readers can find in the story. I really enjoyed this book on two levels: the enjoyable "story-time" of listening to the tales, and the analytical thinking-time of the introduction.The only thing that detracts from the audio version of this book is the horrible synthesized music that plays just for a few seconds at the conclusion of each story to mark the end. Fortunately, the reader is excellent and the music goes away quickly.
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