Escargot and the Search for Spring, Dashka Slater
Escargot and the Search for Spring, Dashka Slater
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Escargot and the Search for Spring

Author: Dashka Slater

Series: Escargot

Narrator: Tim Campbell

Unabridged: 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/30/2024

Synopsis

Escargot and the Search for Spring features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun!

A cute French snail sets off on a springtime adventure with an adorable bunny in this laugh-out-loud fourth audiobook in the bestselling Escargot series—the perfect gift for Easter or all year round.

Bonjour! After a long winter spent indoors, Escargot can’t wait to look outside for the first signs of Spring. Will he find a new friend in the fluffy white bunny he meets along the way?

From New York Times–bestselling author Dashka Slater and former Pixar animator Sydney Hanson, Escargot and the Search for Spring is an irresistibly sweet and charming story about unlikely friendship, changing seasons, and springtime fun.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

About Dashka Slater

Award-winning journalist Dashka Slater has written for such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Salon, and Mother Jones. Her New York Times-bestselling young-adult true crime narrative, The 57 Bus, has received numerous accolades, including the Stonewall Book Award, the California Book Award, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. It was a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Finalist and an LA Times Book Award Finalist, in addition to receiving four starred reviews and being named to more than 20 separate lists of the year’s best books, including ones compiled by The Washington Post, the New York Public Library, and School Library Journal. In 2021, The 57 Bus was named to TIME magazine’s list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. The author of fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults, Dashka teaches in Hamline University’s MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults program. She lives and writes in Oakland, California.

About Sydney Hanson

Sydney Hanson was raised in Minnesota alongside numerous pets and brothers. In addition to her traditional illustrations, Sydney is an experienced 2D and 3D production artist and has worked for several animation shops, including Nickelodeon and Disney Interactive. In her spare time she enjoys traveling and spending time outside with her adopted brother, a Labrador retriever named Cash. She is the illustrator of the Unicorn Princesses series and the picture book, Next to You. Sydney lives in Los Angeles.

About Tim Campbell

Tim Campbell is the Audie, Voice Arts, Independent Audiobook, and AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator of over 1,000 audiobooks. He also sings professionally with the Grammy Award-winning LA Master Chorale and Los Angeles Opera, as well as on TV and film scores such as Star Wars IX, Superman, Venom, and many others.He is most known for his versatile and varied characters and facility with accents and dialects. He's constantly inspired by the kindness and generosity of the audiobook community and is exceptionally grateful for the support of his wonderful family and friends.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jasmine on February 11, 2024

Read for my toddler's bedtime. What a cute illustration of the bunny rabbit! Great story of the Escargot. It has been inside all winter. The escargot was tired of cozy sweaters and hot chocolate. It's ready to go out in search of spring. But its door was stuffed with what looks like a snow bank unti......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on July 25, 2024

A hangry snail with ennui? It's me.......more

Goodreads review by Pat-z on March 14, 2024

Bonjour! I read this, using my best French accent, in preparation for Spring Break. It was cute! I am a public librarian who is terrified of reading to crowds. C'est inacceptable! With this little book, however, it may be kind of fun! A French snail searching for signs of Spring. A random bunny rabbit w......more

Goodreads review by Lois on April 14, 2024

Escargot charms us again while demonstrating "ennui."......more

Goodreads review by Lois on July 23, 2024

This audiobook was made available for me to listen to and review by Dashka Slater, Macmillan Audio, and NetGalley. This audiobook is narrated by Tim Campbell. Mr. Campbell has a delightfully engaging and charming voice. This has a high quality production value with story enhancing sound effects. This......more

Quotes

“Escargot tires of winter and searches for signs of spring . . . Hanson’s gentle watercolors bring to life a charming verdant landscape. Equal parts insecure and boastful, Escargot embodies the roller coaster of emotions that many youngsters feel on any given day. Not to fear: Flowers are finally found and friendships are formed, but the steady, slimy path of chatty dialogue is, as usual, magnifique.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Young children will get a kick out of Escargot’s fourth story and may even learn a few of the French words scattered throughout Escargot’s ­monologue.” —School Library Journal

Praise for the Escargot Series:

"Escargot’s voice is parfait." —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review, on Escargot

"Say bonjour to your new favorite animal, the garden snail! . . . Give this charming read-aloud a little extra joie de vivre by reading it in your best French accent." —Booklist on Escargot

"Escargot is a treat!" —Booklist on A Book for Escargot

"A fun interactive book that will have readers practicing their own over-the-top French accent." —School Library Journal on A Book for Escargot

"It’s easy to be won over by this mighty mollusk." —Kirkus Reviews on Love, Escargot

"It was love at first sight for this magnifique book." —New York Journal of Books on Love, Escargot

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