Greenmama2 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 DD needs more audiobooks. What are your Librivox favourites? She has listened to/read all of Narnia (not that it's available on Librivox, just an example of what she likes). :bigear: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommybee Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I just posted these in a different thread tonight. But these are two my 8 yr old really enjoyed. The Princess and the Goblin The Princess and Curdie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenmama2 Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 Thanks, anyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest laurajorgen Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I just posted these in a different thread tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 The Railway Children Just So Stories (version 4 has the best reader, IMO) Tales from Shakespeare The Story of the Treasure Seekers A Little Princess The Secret Garden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I've had my kids listen to an enormous number of folk and fairy tales. I have searched for "folk" or "tales" and sorted through the results, to find interesting ones from Scandinavia, Japan, West Africa, Brazil, etc. Wind in the Willows, Understood Betsy, My Father's Dragon, Robin Hood, Heidi, Five Little Peppers, and loads of books by E. Nesbit (be careful, I know at least one has the n word in it!, otherwise my kids have enjoyed her stuff a lot). Junior Classics vol 1 has a bunch of stories too http://librivox.org/the-junior-classics-vol-1-by-william-patten/ As does this http://librivox.org/fairy-tales-every-child-should-know-by-hamilton-wright-mabie/ There's another giant compendium http://librivox.org/childhoods-favorites-and-fairy-stories-by-various/ Also, lit2go has some nice recordings. They are of a higher quality (professional readers) than Librivox. http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ If you dig around Story Nory, there are some longer recordings there too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Old Mother West Wind (and others by Thornton Burgess) English Fairy Tales (though I kept out some that Ambleside Online wrote notes about when I put them on CD) The Light Princess (kind of advanced vocab, though) The Little Princess Wizard of Oz My Father's Dragon (CUTE little boy reader!) Wind in the Willows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy Jo Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Brer Rabbit, Velveteen Rabbit (there is a mother/daughter duo), Beatrix Potter. I found this page on their wiki helpful - Ambleside's readings for lower years. http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Recordings_of_Books_on_the_Ambleside_List Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentlemommy Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Thanks for that page!:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy to monkeys Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 :bigear: This is great! I love librivox but have a hard time "browsing". We've done searches for many of the AO selections. We're listening to "This Country of Ours" and enjoy that reader. She also does Island Story I believe. There is a very good version of Wind in the Willows as well. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoundAbout Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 My son is almost 6 and is currently crazy for all of the Thorton Burgess animal stories like The Adventures of Reddy Fox. The narrators seem particularly good on most of these too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 This is an old thread but I wanted to give it a bump. We've recently re-discovered Librivox and the link here with Ambleside Online librivox selections has been very helpful to me. I thought someone else might appreciate it :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Lit 2 Go has some interesting things, and the quality is much nicer, with a lot shorter sponsor message! http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ ....oh, wait, I said that in 2012. Sadly, like Librivox, it's kind of weirdly hard to find things on there. I just downloaded a bunch of poetry from Lit2Go -- I'm hoping we'll learn through listening...ha ha There's an abridged Wind in the Willows on the BBC podcast website right now that will be removed at the end of May www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/witw Their other podcasts for kids are very well done. http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/genre/childrens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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