Album Notes

Little Proto and the Volcano’s Fire is the third feature-length imagination adventure in the award-winning Little Proto Storytelling Audio Series

In Volcano’s Fire, a Parents' Choice silver award winner, the Sea Forest’s favorite dino characters are back: Old Wrinkles the Triceratops, Bump the Pachycephalosaurus, King Geoffrey the T-Rex, Ankles the Ankylosaur, Plessy the Plesiosaur and of course Proto the Protoceratops. The story centers around issues of friendship and self-acceptance while exploring the ecology of fire and life in the Late Cretaceous Period. A distant volcano erupts and sends wind-driven fire toward Little Proto’s home, the Sea Forest. When the Great Migration’s thousand plant eaters unexpectedly arrive seeking shelter, the dinos must work together to survive.

The 72-minute audio features a continuous musical score on 12-string guitar and four songs kids love to sing. Odds Bodkin, who is one of the foremost storytellers in America, has been called "a storyteller supreme" by PARENTS MAGAZINE, a "modern-day Orpheus" by BILLBOARD, and "a consummate storyteller" by the NEW YORK TIMES. Odds creates all the character voices, vocal effects and muse-inspired music simultaneously, making Little Proto and The Volcano's Fire a rich treat for listeners' mind's eyes. Both children and adults love listening to his stories. Great for listening while travelling!

The Little Proto Trilogy are children's musicals unlike any other storytelling recordings. They combine adventure, humor, beauty and clever dialog along with compelling plot lines to raise children's literacy and imaginative intelligence.