mathnerd Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 (edited) Quoting from that other inspirational thread: "Yes, if all fails, count the audiobooks..." I don't have too much to count at this point. We use audiobooks for road trips and they are mostly fiction and always lighthearted. We once listened to a lot of SOTW as audiobooks, but those are the only "schooly" audiobooks that we did. I am looking for audiobook recommendation from all of you successful audiobook users. Please help me out with your lists. (We like fiction, adventure, history, science, math and humor. We also have very sensitive listeners, so we don't listen to heavier topics with death, poverty, suffering in them etc). Edited August 30, 2017 by mathnerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4KookieKids Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Are your kids open to other languages? I count even light "fluffy" fiction as "school" if it's in another language. lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quark Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 For us, it was simply looking for audio versions of books we read about on these boards/ Ambleside Online/ other class lit or living science/ history lists. In general, my kid prefers to read fiction and listen to non-fiction. Our favorites authors: Bill Bryson Mark Kurlansky Tolkien (narrated by Rob Inglis) Shakespeare - biographical as well as plays - we loved audiobooks published by Naxos Fagles Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid Walter Isaacson More recently, we've been using audio Great Courses from the following genres: literature / philosophy world history US history 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benzino Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Your family will love the adaptations of Alexander McCall smiths of his kids series about precious ramotswe The meerkat mystery The mystery of missing lion Another one about cake 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black-eyed Suzan Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 We listen to audiobooks in the car, and we are in the car a lot. :lol: Here are some we've enjoyed. I put a * by the ones I remember having issues, but you should preview all just in case. As you can see, we mostly do fiction. If your kids are up for it (mine aren't yet), SWB's high school history series (History of the Ancient World, etc.) are on audio, too. The Princess and the Goblin Cricket in Times Square Winnie the Pooh series Secret Garden (death at the beginning)* Carry on, Jeeves (some swearing)* Cheaper by the Dozen Around the World in 80 Days (one character encountered an opium den)* A Wrinkle in Time Little Women* Little Men Narnia series Otto of the Silver Hand (suffering)* Heidi Pollyanna* Twenty-One Balloons The Time Machine Captains Courageous The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes* The King of the Golden River 5 Children and It Men of Iron Black Beauty Stuff Matters (at the beginning the author describes being mugged and cut with a knife - you can skip it. He does occasionally mention it later, but not in great detail.)* 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadenceSophia Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 For fiction we recently did Treasure Island, Redwall, Starman Jones (LOVE this book. It's a Heinlein that's safe for kids), and the three Bunnicula books. Earlier in the year we did a LOT of Elizabeth Nesbit books which are beautifully read on Librivox by Ruth Golding. On our recent trip we did the first two SOTW books on CD plus the first of Hakim's Story of Us. We also did One Wild Bird At A Time which everyone was wild about but I might have really strange kids. It's by a bird watcher/ornithologist and describes how he developed questions and found his own answers -- great for scientific inquiry and he does wild stuff like taking a chain saw to his bedroom to help some woodpeckers nest in his cabin. We're all excited to listen to the rest of his books. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 Harry Potter - the version narrated by Stephen Fry. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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