Bertie's Box

Name: Bertie's Box
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Louisa May Alcott
ISBN: 9781666585995

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Narrator: Susie Berneis

Unabridged: 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 09/26/2017

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Literary Fiction, Seasonal Fiction

Synopsis

In Bertie's Box, a family sits around the table putting the finishing touches on their Christmas present wrapping. A letter arrives from a poor widow asking for assistance in providing a Christmas present for her two children. Overhearing this, young Bertie sets about packing up some of his toys to send to the unfortunate mother.

About Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was a prolific American author known for her novel, Little Women, and its sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys. She received instruction from several famous authors, including Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and she is commonly considered to be the foremost female novelist of the Gilded Age.

About Susie Berneis

Susie Berneis is a versatile voiceover artist with numerous narration credits to her name. She has an ear for dialect and a love for the process of developing characters, which has been cultivated through her twenty-plus years of experience as a community and regional stage actress. Based in Ann Arbor (home of the University of Michigan, where she received her BA in English and theatre), she now takes great joy in playing all the characters she encounters in her narration.

Reviews

Goodreads review by midnightfaerie

Have to admit, this one had me tearing up. I'm an old softy, I know. Someone wrote a letter to a family, explaining how down and out they were this Christmas and asking if they could just spare some things for the kids, because this mother, a far off relation I believe, didn't have the heart to see......more

Goodreads review by Tom

3.5⭐......more