A familiar chant to be heard coming from the back of our car at the beginning of a journey is "story, story, story". My children are both huge fans of listening to children's books on CD (or even downloaded to the iPod and played over the car radio). As soon as I press play, quiet descends on the car as my normally vocal boys listen intently, interrupting only occasionally to clarify the meaning of a word.
An interesting list of recommended children's books on cd can also be found at Capitol Choices. Each year since 1996 a group of librarians, teachers, booksellers and other children's literature specialists around the Washington, D.C. area select a list of outstanding books and audiobooks for children up to the age of sixteen. For each recommendation in the list of audiobooks there is a brief synopsis and a suggested age range, although unfortunately the list is not searchable by age range. Most of the audiobooks are for ages 9 and over although there are some suggestions for younger children.
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Each year a list of Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults is announced by The Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, featuring notable audio recordings for ages 12-18 years.
Other lists of children's books on CD worth checking out are:The Ten Best Children's Audio Books from The Independent newspaper in the UK.
Listen to This! Audio Books from Reading Rockets.
The Travel Savvy Mom's age-by-age guide to the best audiobooks for kids.
Of course, in this day and age you do not have to buy the CD to listen to the book, you can just download it on-line. There are a few interesting options for downloading free audiobooks specifically for children.
Many old classics, such as 'Black Beauty', 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', 'Treasure Island' or 'The Secret Garden' are in the public domain and recordings of these classic children's books on CD made by volunteers can be downloaded for free onto your computer, iPod or MP3 player.
Storynory has an online library of free audio stories for children (read with a British accent) which you can listen to on your computer, download in MP3 format or subscribe with iTunes for easy upload to your iPod. There is a mixture of new stories, fairy tales, and specially adapted myths and histories.
Presenting a magical new reading of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, read by iconic British comedian James Acaster. This immersive audiobook is bursting with fantabulous sound effects, dynamic sound design and original music composed by Rusty Bradshaw. 2ff7e9595c
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