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Pit Pony Audio Book
Audio version of the award-winning novel by Joyce Barkhouse
Narrated by Richard Donat
Story
Circumstances force
eleven-year-old Willie to work down in the dark and dank tunnel of a coal
mine. There he befriends Gem, a Sable Island horse captured and taken away
from her island home, and also compelled to toil in the mines.
Pit Pony,
published in 1990, was made into a CBC-TV movie by Cochran Entertainment
in 1997, won three Gemini Awards, and became a 44-episode TV series. Joyce
Barkhouse was named to the Order of Nova Scotia in 2007 for her
significant contribution to Children's Literature.
About the
Narrator
Richard Donat
played the role of Willie’s father in the 1997 TV movie. Donat’s acting
career includes stage, screen, television, and radio. His work has been
distinguished by such awards as Toronto's Dora Award, The Merritt
Award, The Montreal English Critic's Award, as well as a
nomination for a Genie. Donat narrated the 2004 Canada Reads
winner, Frank Parker Day's Rockbound, and the television
shipwreck diving series, Oceans of Mystery and The Sea Hunters.
Set of two CDs:
Disc 1 (Chapters 1-5) 60:42 minutes; Disc 2 (Chapters 6-10) 62:58 minutes.
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Consultant, Janet
Barkhouse
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Engineered by Tim
Feswick, Feswick Productions, Summerville Nova Scotia,
www.feswickproductions.ca
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Graphic design
and layout by Greg Tutty, gtutty@ns.sympatico.ca
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Project conceived
and produced by Marcia Pierce Harding, pitponyaudiobook@hotmail.com
Copyright ©
Joyce Barkhouse
ISBN
978-0-9810550-0-8
Purchase price $20 plus shipping for those ordering direct from
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