Anne Hathaway did a wonderful job with all of the different voices. My favorite was her version of the Cowardly Lion!

Learning that Dorothy's shoes were silver not red.

Everything! She really put her all into the performance and it made for a very enjoyable audio book.

Yes. Anne Hathaway does a great job with the narration. It makes the book even more fun.

I loved the voices that she gave the characters. She also gave a lot of energy and enthusiasm to the overall narration. She seems to have love & affection for this book:-)

This is an excellent version of The Wizard of Oz. I purchased another audible version when my (now teenaged) kids were young and we could not finish it. This is a fun, imaginative book and Anne's reading enhances the story.

Anne Hathaway does a great job reading this story. At same time, we really enjoyed hearing the original story of the Wizard of Oz. Highly recommend this book.

I bought this book in preparation for a long car ride with my 4 year old. She was riveted (and I enjoyed it too). I read (or had read to me) all the L. Frank Baum Oz books (I didn't get through all the Ruth Plumly Thompson books) when I was a kid and I was happy to carry on the tradition. The book has so much happening and works just as well in 2012 as in 1984 as in when it was written in 1900. Since so little happens in the "real world" there is little to date the book and there were no cringe-worthy phrases or beliefs that dated the book.

The narrator was a little strange, I thought her raspy Scarecrow was a little distracting. Most of the time she was fine and the characters were clearly distinguishable from one another. My daughter had no complaints.

We are now reading the book together and my daughter is enjoying it, seemingly just as much the second time.

Anne Hathaway did an awesome job; she made the characters very distinct and very fun. I definitely will listen to again.

My daughter just loves the movie, I had to take her to a "wizard of Oz" Play, not she loves to hear the book and mimic Anne Hathaway's narration...

Middle high on my scale, but I have listened to many, many audiobooks.

Dorothy, because of Anne Hathaway's spot on performance of the lost little girl.

I did listen to her reading of the Princess Diaries, but this performance is much better.

I did laugh at a few points. The story is so familiar and cute.

Anne Hathaway is an excellent narrator, and I would like to hear her perform many books in the future.

Ms. Hathaway is a gift to the listener. Her talent for voice and characterization provides a lyrical and engrossing experience to the listener of this otherwise simple story. Plus she is perfectly paired with the stylistic content and range of the story. The result is magic.

Anne Hathaway brings the story to life. Children will be instantly engrossed into this timeless classic.

Not this particular audio edition...I love the melodic and resonant quality of Anne Hathaway's voice in general, so I had high expectations for her narration of this classic. Unfortunately, it seemed that either not much though went into her "voice" for many of the characters, or she relied too much on the movie version to dictate where she went with each character. There were all-too-evident glimpses of Bert Lahr's cowardly lion, Billie Burke's Glinda, and Margaret Hamilton's Wicked Witch of the West; at other times, she slipped in and out of "character," most notably while narrating lines as the queen of the field mice. Her narration of this character ranged from rapid, ultra-high pitched mousey squeal to haughty, nouveau riche Chipette. There were also a few instances where her voice just didn't seem to fit the character, most notably the stork who rescues the scarecrow from the river, which I can only describe as somewhere between eighties valley girl and Saturday Night Live recurring character!

That's a tough one, since there were so much inconsistency. I think I like Dorothy's portrayal the best because Anne didn't try too hard, i.e., she didn't attempt to make her sound especially young or give her a 1930's movie star lilt in imitation of Judy Garland's portrayal on the big screen.

melodic and resonant (natural qualities) but inconsistent (as a narrator)

not really, since I was very familiar with the story

If you like Anne Hathaway, you will probably enjoy this audio presentation despite her obvious limitations as a narrator. Narrating an audiobook is a labor intensive endeavor, and not everyone who can read and speak fluently, or who has acting credentials, can do it well. Anne's performance, while not terrible, was adequate at best.