Author: Louisa May Alcott
Narrator: Susie Berneis
Unabridged: 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 09/26/2017
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Literary Fiction, Seasonal Fiction
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was a prolific American author known for her novel, Little Women, and its sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys. She received instruction from several famous authors, including Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and she is commonly considered to be the foremost female novelist of the Gilded Age.
Susie Berneis is a versatile voiceover artist with numerous narration credits to her name. She has an ear for dialect and a love for the process of developing characters, which has been cultivated through her twenty-plus years of experience as a community and regional stage actress. Based in Ann Arbor (home of the University of Michigan, where she received her BA in English and theatre), she now takes great joy in playing all the characters she encounters in her narration.
A Christmas story about the ability for animals to speak for one hour a year at midnight on Christmas Eve. A horse gains the ability and tells her life story to the little girl, retelling the trials and tribulations of her life and how she ends up with a most wonderful owner. A cute little story tha......more
3.5-3.75 stars This was a nice story about a horse that tells her life story to her visitor during the first hour of Christmas Day. It showed a lot of how horses were used at times the author was alive. For a short Christmas story for kids, “Rosa’s Tale” was a solid piece but I don’t see it standing......more
I listened to this as an audiobook through Hoopla. It is a children's story about an anthropomorphized horse who tells a child the sad story of its life. This is not one of the better children's books by LMA. It's rather boring, in fact.......more
Very short story of a mare telling a young girl her life story on Christmas morning.......more
