Wondering why his voice sounds familiar? Here’s a link to his IMDB page. The Skunk and Badger Series: Book 1 2.95 Hours 1 Format : Digital Download 15.95 11.96 or 1 Credit Wallace and Gromit meets Winnie-the-Pooh in a fresh take on a classic odd-couple friendship, from Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake. Let the record state that if this doesn’t win some kind of an Odyssey Award from ALA this year, I’m going to be most seriously put out. About the author Amy Timberlake Amy Timberlakes work has received a Newbery Honor, an Edgar, a Golden Kite Award, and the China Times Best Book Award. And his laughs! Somehow he manages to give both Skunk and Badger these incredible and highly distinctive laughs that just reverberate in your eardrums… in a good way. Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlakes Skunk & Badger, a junior fiction thats at once hilarious and deeply felt, calls to mind the work of Kate DiCamillo and even A.A. … I do not know what magic Boatman sprinkled on these pages before his read, but this is an audiobook that I could hear on repeat.

If you listen to no other audiobook on this list, listen to this one. Michael Boatman, Michael Boatman, Michael Boatman. Here’s what people said about Michael Boatman’s work on Skunk and Badger: James Tate Hill, Literary Hub, said: “ Boatman turns in a fantastic performance, making the most of Timberlake’s wordplay.”īetsy Bird, School Library Journal, Fuse #8 blog: “ Oh my god. Boatman goes all in, delivering Skunk and Badger's back-and-forth banter and all of Timberlake's swoops and swirls of language and wordplay with panache and full-throated enthusiasm.' Here’s a chunk from the Audiofile review of Egg Marks the Spot: “Narrator Michael Boatman is a one-man band of banjo plucks, chicken bocks, and a panoply of other sound effects in this clever and silly sequel to SKUNK AND BADGER.

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