Based on books 25-32 in the Left Behind: The Kids series, this fifth package of "Live Action Audio" is gripping for young and old alike. These twelve episodes will hold the attention of any listener. Best for ages 10-14 but loved by all all ages.
Jerry Bruce Jenkins is an American novelist and biographer. He is best known as the writer of the Left Behind series of books for Tim LaHaye and The Chosen novels to accompany his son Dallas's TV series. Jenkins has written more than 200 books, including mysteries, historical fiction, biblical fiction, cop thrillers, international spy thrillers, and children's adventures, as well as nonfiction. His works usually feature Christians as protagonists. In 2005, Jenkins and LaHaye ranked 9th in Amazon.com's 10th Anniversary list of Hall of Fame authors based on books sold at Amazon.com during its first 10 years. Jenkins now teaches writers to become authors here at his website. He and his wife Dianna have three sons and eight grandchildren.
The Left Behind: The Kids Audiobooks are fantastic! I have listened to all six volumes several times and I still listen to them. The audio features talented voice actors, awesome music and sound effects, and great original songs (I wish there was a soundtrack of just the songs that are featured in several episodes throughout the series).
The audio does differ some from the book series. The one thing that really disappointed me with the audio is that one of the main characters in the book series was written almost entirely out of the audio. She is in the early episodes but is written out of the later volumes. Not having the character in the audio altered the story a bit, mainly in the later volumes.
I would highly recommend the audio series to anyone who loved reading the Left Behind: The Kids series. If you haven't read the books I would suggest reading them first as the story is a little bit different in the audio series. I also think that it's better to get to know the characters through the books first. Although I enjoyed listening to the audio, I loved the books so much more.
Read this series from the beginning to end and after I had read the adult version it was awesome to read the kids version as they were linked in both series