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Based on books written by Hans Christian Andersen & Carlo Collodi - Audio performed by a full cast - Script written and directed by Arthur Yorinks - Unabridged Fiction - 2 COMPACT DISCS in standard retail packaging. - 2 hours, 27 minutes

Publisher, Listening Library / an imprint of Random House Audiobooks (December 2006)

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The Night Kitchen Radio Theatre, founded and directed by Arthur Yorinks, is a new not-for-profit theater company devoted to creating and producing theatrical works for the radio. Live performances are recorded at "The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and then aired nationwide on XM Satellite Radio and public radio stations around the country.

Along with each performance, the well-known critic and historian of children's literature, Leonard Marcus, hosts a segment that provides background for the plays.

ARTHUR YORINKS for 35 years has written and directed for opera, theater, dance, film, and radio, and is the author of more than two dozen acclaimed and award-winning books for children, induding the Caldecott Medal winner, Hey Al and Company the recent pop-up best-seller.

LEONARD MARCUS is the literary director of The Night Kitchen Radio Theater. His reviews and commentaries have been featured in The New York Times Book Review' and Parenting magazine, as well as on many radio and television programs. He is the author of several widely acclaimed works on authors and illustrators including A Caldecott Celebration, Side by Side, Author Talk, Margaret Brown: Awakened by the Moon, Dear Genius, and The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of fantasy.

CAST: Arliss Howard, Babe Winger Howard, Sarah K. Lippmann, Alice Playten, Steven Rattazzi, Robert Reames, Debra Winger, Arthur Yorinks, and Anthony Zaccaro; with original music by Lesley Stoller