Her voice is rather flat, and she just isn't the ideal narrator for these books. Le Guin is a great author, but not such an excellent narrator. When this happens, I need a book that she likes but isn't so intense that it will keep her awake, and this book fits the bill perfectly. I read to her every night, but there are nights that I am either too tired to read much or she doesn't fall asleep after two books. I was excited when I found these on Audible because not only did I was to revisit them, but I am always looking for books that my 4-year-old daughter will be interested in.

His website is absolutely adored these books when I was little! I think they were the first chapter books that I ever read. Le Guin’s Catwings series Skeleton Hiccups and Monster Mess!, both by Margery Cuyler Big Pumpkin and the ALA Notable Children’s Book Don’t Fidget a Feather!, both by Erica Silverman How Santa Got His Job by Stephen Krensky and Johnny Appleseed by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benét. Schindler is the popular and versatile illustrator of many books for children, including Ursula K. Edwards Award. She received lifetime achievement awards from the World Fantasy Convention, Los Angeles Times, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and Willamette Writers, as well as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award and the Library of Congress Living Legend Award. Le Guin was also the recipient of the Association for Library Service to Children’s May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award and the Margaret A. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.

Le Guin (1929–2018) was the celebrated author of twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. Her acclaimed books received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Otherwise, Theodore Sturgeon, PEN/Malamud, and National Book Awards a Newbery Honor and the Pushcart and Janet Heidinger Kafka Prizes, among others.

Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin