189 exact recordings, sorted into useful starting points.

Evidence limit: Moods, intensity, and topic tags are conservative editorial screening derived from the linked 2025 committee annotation and exact-edition metadata, not a full scene-level or audio-effects audit; an absent tag is not verified absence. Age basis: ALA grade band converted as grade+5 and capped at 17. The annotation signals violence and romance broadly but does not identify frequency or graphic detail.

Evidence limit: TeachingBooks places the work in PK-8 and labels it for ages 4-8, while Kirkus and Publishers Weekly both classify the exact performance for all ages and the latter calls it entertaining for the whole family; 17 is the site's upper shared-listening input. Professional reviews describe two dozen performed poems from the larger print collection, so the catalog treats this as an audio program even though retailers label it unabridged. Sources flag comic gross-out material including a rat-for-lunch refrain, eyeballs for sale, bugs, and a chemistry-set mishap; no complete transcript or effects audit was available.

Evidence limit: Moods, intensity, and topic tags are conservative editorial screening derived from the linked 2026 committee annotation and exact-edition metadata, not a full scene-level or audio-effects audit; an absent tag is not verified absence. The source range is ages 3–6; this batch narrows it to ages 4–6 to preserve the product's established 4–17 scope. The committee note is very short and does not inventory all plot beats.

Evidence limit: Moods, intensity, and topic tags are conservative editorial screening derived from the linked 2026 committee annotation and exact-edition metadata, not a full scene-level or audio-effects audit; an absent tag is not verified absence. Age basis: direct ALA age range. The source does not enumerate stepfamily mistreatment or parental-loss details common to Cinderella variants.

Evidence limit: Moods, intensity, and topic tags are conservative editorial screening derived from the linked 2024 committee annotation and exact-edition metadata, not a full scene-level or audio-effects audit; an absent tag is not verified absence. Age basis: ALA grade band converted as grade+5 and capped at 17. The source does not inventory sexual content, substance use, or language.

Evidence limit: Simon & Schuster supplies ages 12 and up and grade 7+; Kirkus gives ages 12-18, while the product stops at 17. Police violence, racial injustice, pandemic illness, isolation, fear, and family distress are central. The father is isolated within the home rather than absent, but family separation is tagged because that distinction may not reduce distress for a sensitive listener. No complete line-level or effects audit was available.

Evidence limit: Moods, intensity, and topic tags are conservative editorial screening derived from the linked 2026 committee annotation and exact-edition metadata, not a full scene-level or audio-effects audit; an absent tag is not verified absence. Age basis: direct ALA age range. The source names grief and strong emotion but not the precipitating event.

Evidence limit: Hachette supplies the bounded 4-8 range, and AudioFile evaluates this exact performance. The biography discusses Black literary life and single motherhood but the checked sources do not inventory every historical reference; an empty tag list is not evidence of absence, and no complete track-level or sound-effects audit was performed.

Evidence limit: The publisher supplies the age band, narrator, and exact runtime; ALSC supplies audio-performance judgment. Moods, intensity, and the empty controlled-tag list are editorial screening, not a full scene-level or audio-effects audit. The premise includes family hardship and a seriously ill parent, which the current tag vocabulary does not express precisely.

Evidence limit: Moods, intensity, and topic tags are conservative editorial screening derived from the linked 2025 committee annotation and exact-edition metadata, not a full scene-level or audio-effects audit; an absent tag is not verified absence. Age basis: ALA grade band converted as grade+5 and capped at 17. The source establishes peril and romance but not scene-level violence.

Evidence limit: Penguin Random House supplies ages 12 and up and grade 7+; Kirkus gives ages 12-18, while the product stops at 17. Poems address racism, poverty, gendered expectations, fear, and violence, so prejudice and violence are conservatively tagged. Runtime sources differ by one minute because the publisher rounds; the linked current Audible display supplies the stored 51 minutes. No complete poem-by-poem or effects audit was available.

Evidence limit: Moods, intensity, and topic tags are conservative editorial screening derived from the linked 2024 committee annotation and exact-edition metadata, not a full scene-level or audio-effects audit; an absent tag is not verified absence. Age basis: ALA grade band converted as grade+5 and capped at 17. The source signals attacks and intrigue but does not specify deaths or graphic detail.

Evidence limit: Moods, intensity, and topic tags are conservative editorial screening derived from the linked 2024 committee annotation and exact-edition metadata, not a full scene-level or audio-effects audit; an absent tag is not verified absence. Age basis: ALA grade band converted as grade+5 and capped at 17. The source does not inventory sexual content or online-harassment severity.