Charlie Bone and the Beast (Children of the Red King #6)

By: Jenny Nimmo

Narrated by: Simon Jones

The sixth magical adventure in the NY TIMES bestselling CHARLIE BONE series!

Life should be perfect for Charlie now that his parents have been reunited. But mystery and adventure always find him. This time Asa, a fellow classmate who changes into a beast at dusk and Charlie's sometime enemy, is missing. His parents seek out Charlie for help, and now Charlie needs the help of the Flames to rescue his classmate. Manfred Bloor has also taken the new endowed student, Dagbert Endless, under his wing and Charlie is highly suspicious of the pair. Can the Flames and Charlie rescue Asa without being caught by Manfred and Dagbert?

©2007 Jenny Nimmo (P)2008 Scholastic Inc

Simon Russell Beale where art thou?

First, Simon Jones, this books narrator, does a good job. Still no where near as fine a job as Simon Russell Beale.

Original Simon made Blessed the dog's words truly sound like barking. Ezekiel Bloor's dialogue was wonderfully disgusting in the original Simon's mouth. It wasn't Ezekiel's words that made the dialogue so cringe worthy but the gurling, popping, wheezing and much more

I really appreciated his delivery of regular dialogue between characters. It was just so laid back and totally natural. Also all characters had their on distinct voice.

I kept meaning to sing Simon Russell Beale's praises.

Charlie Bone series is still great fun and well worth listening through to the end.

Another Charlie Great!

The story continues with even more magic and mystery! Great Series!

We love the story

We love this story, but the new narrator was not as good as the other one in my opinion. The switch of narrators so late in the story too was a weird decision. He wasn’t horrible, but I didn’t like how some of the characters voices changed from what I had learned them to be, you know? But the new guys isn’t bad!! Just wasn’t what I had learned for 5 other books.

Love

I think I’m in love with Nimmo’s Charlie bones series... they need to make a movie like the Harry Potter books. Everyone will enjoy them!!!!!

Good book

I prefer the other narrator. I feel this one is a bit whiny when it comes to some of the characters. I wish they did not switch narrators and that’s why I only gave 2 stars for performance.