Reviews

The Civil War Collection

"An outstanding collection on the old west. The series use of actors to read material (diaries, letters and newspaper articles) gives you a good idea of what life was truly like during the period. The kids will love it, too. A great gift! "
Jerry - Dallas, TX

The Old West Collection

"This fine collection of historical facts and stories is great. I was transported back to the old west as I drove 600 miles across Kansas visualizing things I was hearing. The stories made the trip quite effortless. I can use a lot of what I learned as I entertain folds with my old west music programs."
R. Brown,Lakewood, CO

Pioneers In Petticoats

"There was the rancher's wife who knew Billy The Kid; Elizabeth Martin who started over the Oregon Trail with her husband and her three children (and left a child in a lonely grave along the way); the homesteader who lived in a dirt dugout and yearned most of all for a sewing machine; the black woman whose husband died three days before the Oklahoma land rush - but still got the bakery she wanted; Annie Oakley; Belle Star; and others. These are women who came to the frontier with their families and their children. Their work was never-ending but in towns like Tombstone, Dodge City and Leadville, they found time to build churches and schools. Wooden sidewalks replaced dirt and mud at feminine urgings; homes were built where dugouts and sod houses once stood because of the women. They fought searing drought in West Texas and Bitter Montana winters in the north. And, in the end, it was not the judge or the marshal who tamed the west, but those hardy, persevering women who faced the wilderness against all odds. Their stories are fascinating and they are told through letters, diaries and private journals in Pioneeers in Petticoats, a 60-minute audiobook shining new light on a frontier where women were often forgotten in male-dominated histories of the American West."
Midwest Book Review

"These audiobooks are a wonderful re-creation of American History. Fascinating and Entertaining!"
M. Enguidanos - Vanderbilt/ Oxford Professor

The Cowboy In Song & Story

" The Cowboy in Song & Story is a book that couldn't be written, because you could never even come close to the unique atmosphere and peculiar ambience that was - and is - the cowboy's mystique. The tales that link the songs will have you laughing one moment and wiping a tear the next. This tape evokes the real old West, dust and dirt, sunup to sundown, relentless, exhausting work ending around the campfire - and a satisfaction beyond words. Even if you're not a fan of Western music, you'll love this one."
C. Edgren / El Paso Herald Post

Route 66

"Route 66 - a learning experience into the past for the young passengers and a pure nostalgia fix for those of us who traveled on Route 66 when it and we were in the formative years."
Joplin Globe

"This tape makes for a great hour of listening, learning and reminiscing."
Route 66 Association

"Brings depth to a familiar story by the use of multiple and character voice narration, background music and sound effects. "
Phoenix Magazine

The Hatfield/ McCoy Feud

"A wonderful dramatization of an American vendetta that echoed around the world with a common, ordinary pig…and raged for more than 20 years. Roseanna McCoy and Johnse Hatfield, two star crossed lovers who loved so very well, but so unwisely."
Blue Ridge Magazine

Below is a review of 'The Abraham Lincoln Logues' from Chicago Parent Magazine. Voted one of top ten children's books.

Your guide to the year's best storytelling audiobooks.

Take a trip back in time with Buffalo Biff and Farley's Raiders by listening to the interactive CD, The Abraham Lincoln Logues (Toy Box Productions) by Joe Loesch. This recording is a part of the Backyard Adventure Series of stories that follow three friends as they travel back in time to different time periods.
The Abraham Lincoln Logues is written in play form with children reading the various parts. The first time the script is read, child actors read all the parts. On subsequent readings, one character is omitted so that the listener can assume this part. Each time the script is read, a different character is left out. (Children can easily identify their lines by the color coding in the script.) The actors who recite the lines are very natural, so listeners should not feel intimated when it is their time to take an active role.
This recording does a nice job of integrating historical facts into the story. It's perfect for scout troops, camps, classrooms, and rainy day small-group gatherings.

By Naomi Leithold - Chicago Parent Magazine

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