Audiobook Collection

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  • August 14, 2009 at 10:08 pm
    baileymom
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    Books on CD have become a big part of our family life over the last year, and I am looking for everyone’s opinion of “must haves”.

    We only own a few so far:  Just So Stories, All of a Kind Family, Sugar Creek Gang (first one), Farmer Boy and On the Banks of Plum Creek…and of course, the NKJV Bible (we also got our girls Next Generation the Word of Promise New Testament, which they LOVE).

    Please share your favorites/children’s favorites to help me build a wish list.

    Thanks-Kathi

    August 14, 2009 at 11:29 pm
    missceegee
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    We love audiobooks, too! 

    We own…

    • The entire series of The Sugar Creek Gang – our all time favorite!

    • The Chronicles of Narnia (focus on the family dramatized) – voice of Aslan is not our favorite

    • Boys of Grit series

    • Classical Kids series

    • Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Secret Garden (fof dramatized)

    • The City Under the Back Steps

    • Stories of the Pilgrims

    • Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

    • The Harper & the King by Odds Bodkin (great)

    • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

    • Earth Stories (short stories)

    • Pilgrim”s Progress

    • Your Story Hour series (Bible, history, etc.) – we have many

    • American History Stories by Mara Pratt (Jim Hodges)

    • many picture books that my mother-in-law recorded w/ sound effects & music (Stellaluna, Ferdinand, etc.) – these are treasures to us!

    Our favorite spots to find them…

    Hope that gets you started!

    ChristieLaughing

    August 15, 2009 at 12:51 am
    Rachel White
    Participant

    Wow; this is a major undertaking for me to put my faves down.

    The only abrdged stuff-Anything by Jim Weiss and Pilgrims Progress abridged for Youth by James Baldwin.

    Also, for serious listening of unabridged are those by JIm Hodges.

    The Winnie the Pooh Collection approved by his son; Jonathan Park Series, Living Principles of America collection (excellent dramatization of our Nation’s founding, best price found for cd’s at sing n learn; I have the tapes), YOur Story HOur, Tales of Beatrix POtter, Pollyanna, The HObbit, James Baldwin’s Fifty famous Stories Retold, Heidi, all of the Little House Books. Stories by E.B. White, too.

     

    I’ve bought several collections from Homeschool Radioshows, as well as listening to them weekly as the old radioshows are sent free to my inbox.

    I’ve also downloaded several from Librivox for free and recorded.  I like them listening to the classics for written for children from the past, exposing them to it a couple of years earlier than they would read it or hear it read (as long as the content is appropriate).

    Rachel

     

    August 15, 2009 at 1:36 am
    baileymom
    Member

    Thanks Rachel.  Curious, what is Librivox, it seems I have missed out on something yet again!

    August 15, 2009 at 11:12 am
    Rachel White
    Participant

    I forgot to add in Aesop’s Fables.

    Librivox is a free online catalog of audio books read by volunteers for the site.

    http://www.librivox.org

    I downloaded Robinson Crusoe, Heidi and Pollyanna from it onto cd’s.

    Rachel

    August 15, 2009 at 2:50 pm
    Rebekahy
    Participant

    One of our favorites is Anne of Green Gables! 

    August 16, 2009 at 7:41 am
    Jimmie
    Member

    Thank you, missceegee, for the amazing list you gave!

    I agree with her recommendations. We are lovers of Librivox too. And I’ve recently become aware of Audible.com. That’s not free; it’s retail. But we bought the Civil War novel Bull Run and thoroughly enjoyed it!

    More audio resources at Audio Homeschool.

     

    August 16, 2009 at 12:43 pm
    gr8tfulCMmom
    Participant

    Here’s another one:  My Audio School

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