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Looks like our children’s podcast site, Storynory has a Christmas battle on its hands. We are in the middle of seralising our dramatisation of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. We’ve produced it as a play with two professional actors. I must admit that we are biased, but we really think that the result is highly entertaining.

Now we read that Penguin will podcast the unabridged audiobook of “A Christmas Carol”, read by Geoffrey Palmer, in five installments.

This is really David and Golliath. Our little Frog, Bertie (Storynory’s mascot) versus the mighty Penguin.

Penguin say of their podcast: “The first podcast to be launched by a major UK publisher. Launched 1 November 2005, featuring exclusive interviews, music and book extracts – visited by nearly 10,000 people from 60 countries.”

Well guess what, I don’t mean to boast, but on Tuesday Storynory received 1,400 unique visitors – and that’s just on one day. Not bad for a three week old frog. Maybe, just maybe, Bertie the frog will turn into a Prince quite soon.