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Leopold by Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer & Pierre Lehu

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Leopold

by Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer & Pierre Lehu

Length 20 minutes

Language English

Narrators Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, Alison Larkin, Pete Cross, Peter Noble, David Bendena & Marisa Blake

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Summary
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Dr. Ruth Westheimer's grandson, Ben, is afraid to join the soccer team. To help out, she tells him the story of Leopold the Turtle, who always stays on the shore. It terrifies him to go join the other turtles and play in the water and sun on the rocks. Leopold just can’t get out of his shell, and the longer he waits the more he starts to doubt. Even though Leopold feels quite alone, he stays on the riverbank where it’s safe. But Freddy the Frog is a little concerned about Leopold and asks him to join them in the river. Leopold has to choose whether to brave the unknown and join his friends or to stay lonely and remain safe on land.

This charming rhyming tale of a turtle too afraid to set foot in the river proves that facing your fears can set you free.

Children's

Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer is known by most children as Dr. Ruth Wordheimer on PBS KIDS' Between the Lions. A therapist and an expert on family issues, she is also a devoted grandparent.

Pierre Lehu has worked in public relations for forty years. He is a literary agent, writer, and editor and has coauthored two dozen books.

Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer is known by most children as Dr. Ruth Wordheimer on PBS KIDS' Between the Lions. A therapist and an expert on family issues, she is also a devoted grandparent.

Alison Larkin is an internationally acclaimed comedienne, an award-winning voice artist, an actress, a producer, a screenwriter, and a bestselling author. Her voice can be heard in cartoons, in movies, and on over one hundred audiobooks. Her narration of her novel The English American won an Earphones Award and made the top-ten list of best author audiobook narrations of all time, joining ranks with President Obama, E.B. White, and Jane Fonda.

Pete Cross is an award-winning audiobook narrator and engineer who earned his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. A multiple Earphones Awards winner and Audie finalist, he was nominated for a SOVAS award for his narration of Moby Dick and received the 2022 Audie Award for Ryan La Sala’s Be Dazzled and the 2023 Odyssey Award for Ryan La Sala’s The Honeys.

Peter Noble is an experienced audiobook narrator. Born in South Africa, he was dragged by hippie musicians from his idyllic childhood, where he ran barefoot through rich and matted grass with his dog Bartok, to vegetarian communes from California to India via Lisbon, London, and Findhorn. He picked up a wide range of authentic local accents and character voices along the way.

David Bendena is an actor and a musician based in the Midwest. His theatre experience over the past twenty years has taken him to stages throughout Chicago, Kansas City, and Michigan. He is very proud to be a member of the Actors Equity Association and to be a Resident Artist with the Purple Rose Theatre Company.

Marisa Blake is a multi-award-winning audiobook narrator and voiceover artist who is bilingual in both English and Spanish. Passionate about children's literature, she created the YouTube channel Miss Bee’s Audio Reads and regularly volunteers with Learning Ally, an organization that records audiobooks for children with learning disabilities. She enjoys spending time with her husband and three boys in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina.