LONDON, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Following the success of two earlier CDs, the British Library has issued "The Spoken Work: Children's Authors."
According to the British Library Web site, the new CD covers 75 years of great tradition and includes such writers as A.A. Milne, reading from his famous Pooh books, Raymond Briggs and Roald Dahl. The adult writers' and poets' CDs, "The Spoken Word: Writers" and "The Spoken Word: Poets," featured such authors as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Arthur Conan Doyle, J.R.R. Tolkien and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
While the adult collections are all 19th century authors, the children's recording is mostly composed of contemporary writers.
Children might be disappointed to learn there's no "Harry Potter" -- author J. K. Rowling was unavailable at the time.
The CDs are not available in the United States but can be bought online at the British Library Web site: bl.uk.
