Grammy Nominee narrates…
December 11, 2007 by Audado
The Grammy award nominations were announced and Jim Dale, the voice actor for the U.S. Harry Potter audiobooks, has been nominated for an award under the category of Best Spoken Word Album For Children.
This would be the fifth Grammy nomination for Mr. Dale. He also received the Audie Awards 2007 for the “Best Male Narrator 2007″,”Peter and The Shadow Thieves” by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
In this riveting and adventure-packed follow-up to the award-winning New York Times bestseller Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter leaves the relative safety of Mollusk Island - along with his trusted companion, Tinker Bell - for the cold, damp, dangerous streets of London.
On a difficult journey across the sea, he and Tink discover the dark and deadly slithering part-man/part-creature Lord Ombra, who is intent on recovering the missing starstuff - celestial dust that contains unimagined powers. In London, Peter attempts to track down the indomitable Molly, hoping that together they can combat Ombra’s determined forces. But London is not Mollusk Island; Peter is not the boy he used to be; and Lord Ombra - the Shadow Master - is unlike anything Peter, or the world, has ever seen.
Jim Dale has done it again. With magnificent verbal aptitude, he creates a array of figures, each with a voice that perfectly matches one’s image of the character–from the menacing villains to the brave voices of young Peter, Molly, and George.
Dale brings us fully into the emotional lives of the characters and deftly weaves the three story lines together, building the tension, then letting it ease out, only to build it again as he changes tempo, tone, and pace to create a riveting story.
On Audado : “Peter and The Shadow Thieves“
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