Benjamin Ellefson Audiobooks

The Land Without Color: a children's fantasy adventure built for family listening

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.4/5 average

143 listener ratings

Who is Benjamin Ellefson?

Children’s fiction is the shelf that holds Benjamin Ellefson here, and The Land Without Color is the work that puts him on it. The title does the inviting all by itself: a world drained of colour is a premise a young listener can hold in their head from the first minute, and it gives the story somewhere obvious to go.

Beyond the book we make no claims, because there is nothing dependable to draw on. What the work itself shows is a writer aiming squarely at the family audience rather than talking down to it, building a self-contained adventure and naming a series after the world it invents.

Benjamin Ellefson in audiobooks

The recording runs to four hours and seventeen minutes in Claire Storey’s performance, which makes it a few school runs and a couple of bedtimes rather than one long sitting. Storey reads it the way children’s fiction wants to be read, with the characters clearly separated and the pace unhurried enough to follow while half asleep.

Listener scores sit comfortably high across a solid body of ratings, and for a children’s story that usually means the best thing of all: it survived being played again. If you have a listener somewhere between picture books and proper novels, this is a sensible place to try. The audiobooks gathered below will take you straight to it.