Poor Narration

Audiobook Review:
This audiobook would certainly be better appreciated as just a physical book or ebook or one of those paired with the audiobook. There aren't many words to this book, making it a little uninteresting just to listen to, but I think that seeing the pictures of these animals and their habitats would make it much more interesting. I was not a fan of the narration. For whatever reason, the narrator (or the publisher) chose to have this read so that Each. Word. Was. Very. Distinct. The narrator left unnatural pauses between words. I think children would find that rather silly, as I am sure that if their parents read to them they do so in a more natural tone. As I did receive a free audiobook of this, I can't comment on the actual photographs or drawings included. Based on the words alone, it sounds like this was meant for very young children.

I received a free copy of this audiobook, but that did not affect my review.

The audiobook version of Wait, Rest, Pause really needs to be paired with the picture book version. When accompanied by the pictures and text, this audiobook would be a great reading lesson for small children, as well as an awesome beginning science lesson about dormancy.

The book talks about dormancy in a wide variety of living things from plants and trees to insects and animals. This would be a great book to read to little ones in the fall and winter when they are seeing the changes in the plants all around them and see the squirrels frantically gathering food or geese flying in their V formations.

This book touches on a very important science lesson and simplifies it for younger children. I only had the audio, but looked up some of the photos from the print book online. Beautiful! For a preschool age child or for early reading lessons, this would be a beautiful audio book to pair with the full color photos of the print book.

I will be honest and say it took me most of the book to get used to the narrator. I do understand the necessity of carefully pronouncing words to help young children who are new to sounding out words....but he goes a little overboard with it. I would never read to a child in such a slow, over enunciated fashion. But I'm not a child.....a younger child might like the narrator taking care to pronounce each word carefully.

All in all, this audiobook could have great educational use with small children just starting to learn to read, or those who want to learn more about the seasons and the changes they bring.

Great book!

Simple but poetic childrens book all about dormancy in nature. Full of all sorts of creatures from ladybugs to alligators. Great educational book for children and adults alike.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

I guess I need to do more research before I request an audiobook on NetGalley. I am reviewing for the Maine Student Book Award and love having audio as a "reading" option. This book - while cute was way to young and short for my students and book award. Note to self - check publication date of original book and age levels of book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Lerner Audiobooks for providing me with this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

I’ve seen a lot of reviews commenting on how beautiful the photos are and obviously since I have an audio version, I can’t comment on those. The photos would definitely have made this experience better. If you had this audio *as well as* the picture book in front of a child, it’d probably be a good experience. I found the audio to be pretty slow with nothing to look at - it made it hard to hold a thought. That being said, the book sounds interesting, but I don’t think it can stand alone as an audiobook. The narrator is okay, but without the photos, this book is boring. The audio/text could frame photos or illustrations well, but by itself, I’m not a huge fan. Overall, good idea for a book, fun facts, audio is not the best option if you’re going to read it though.