Patch the Pirate CDs…These are not books, but audio drama from Majesty Music. Ron Hamilton lost an eye to cancer years ago and kids started calling him Patch the Pirate. That is how these stories came to be. Mr. Hamilton plays Patch, and his wife and children are also characters in the stories. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton are musicians and have written many songs, so the stories have really good songs intertwined in them. They have excellent Bible/character lessons in each adventure. My daughter listens to them over and over again. My dh gets tired of hearing the same thing over and over again, but I don’t mind because I love to hear and sing along with some of the music:) The earliest stories are when the Hamilton children were young, so those stories are geared toward the very young, ang age range would progress as each story was produced. My daughter is 11 and still enjoys listening to the later stories when the children are older. Some of the Hamilton’s grandchildren may even be in some of the later ones. Here is the website. The first ones on the page are the latest ones (International Spy Academy) and in order go back to the first ones made (Patch the Pirate Goes to Space, etc) The treasure boxes contain 4 CDs, so are more economical. I have purchased some on Ebay as well.
http://www.majestymusic.com/patch-the-pirate.html
We have quite a few of them, so I can’t say which are favorites, but all that we own have been enjoyed by my daughter. If you decide to purchase any of these, I would recommend starting with some earlier ones like Misterslippi River Race, Kidnapped on I-Land, or Once Upon a Starry Knight, just to name a few. Sorry I got rambling, but these are excellent teaching tools as well as entertaining for children.
Actually for ages 5 & 3, you may want to start with the very first ones:) I’d wait a couple of years for the titles I mentioned.
