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  Rose Petal Place: The Audiobooks ("A Garden of Love to Share" and "Rose Petal and the Evil Weeds") Welcome back, my beautiful fairies! Why don’t we upgrade a little bit and talk about the audiobooks? Well, cassette-books, technically. If you’re young and dumb like me and don’t know what that is, you’d put a cassette tape into the radio and read the book along with the narrator. It was like listening to an audiobook while also reading the physical book at the same time. The first book we’re looking at, A Garden of Love to Share, is adapted directly from the first animated special. This version was written by Dagmar Foslien, with Karin Williams helping Pat Paris out with the artwork. It’ll be fun to see how this differs from the animated special. You can listen along to the audiobook right here! The story starts with a song, just like the animated adaptation. Rose Petal: (signing) “Push through the ground, little plant. Reach for the sun. a bright world will be fo...

Rose Petal Place: The Storybooks ("Rose Petal's Big Decision" and "A Matter of Music") It's storytime again, my beautiful fairies. And today, for the next stop on our journey of Rose Petal Place, we're going to be looking over the last two storybooks I managed to get my fairy fingers on: Rose Petal's Big Decision and A Matter of Music. Let's not waste any time and start off with Rose Petal's Big Decision.   This story comes to us from Nancy Buss, with Pat Paris’s artwork returning, but being assisted by Sharon Ross-Moore. A video read-a-long is provided by 80s Toys & Beyond, who also kindly shares with us her collection of the original Rose Petal Place dolls, showing everyone except for Orchid. Isn’t that sweet?  However, the video quality itself is rather fuzzy and the screenshots I managed to grab from it are rather poor. For that, I apologize. The story begins with Rose Petal getting an important letter in the mail: a contract from ...