sassenach Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 I started with Peter Pan. What next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cupajoe Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 We listen frequently to librivox recordings. My dc loved The Princess and the Goblin. They also really liked The Wind in the Willows. The gentleman who recorded it used different voices for each character which made it really enjoyable to listen to. Others we've enjoyed include: Five Children and It The Story of Doctor Dolittle the Thornton Burgess stories Just so Stories The Fairyland of Science Our Island Story Happy Listening! Erika Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laylamcb Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 My dd has enjoyed Kara Shallenberg's readings of The Secret Garden and This Country of Ours (parts). With Librivox, the quality varies so tremendously--even within a single work! I love the idea of it, but the execution isn't always the greatest.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Nesbit's Stories from Shakespeare (or is it Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare?) Kids love it and we are suplementing the audio version for the print version in TOG. Thanks Librivox! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee in MI Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 The Scarlet Pimpernel was hands down the best reader. All of the rest are good stories with uneven readers. Worth the trouble. They are free :) I also liked Scaramouche and Captain Blood. I'm currently listening to War of the Worlds. I listed recently to White Fang and Call of the Wild, and the short story How to Build a Fire Some Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, and Miss Marple For History I listened to Our Island Story, Story of the Middle Ages, and Dicken's Child's History of England. I liked Our Island Story the most. My son's favorite has been Wind and the Willows I listed to Poems Every Child Should Know, and it was just hard to get through. I often download poems I like, though. They'll often have different readers reading the same poem, and it's fun to compare. Jabberwocky, but Alan Davis Drake is fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nestof3 Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 My son has been listening to all of the Frank Baum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
profmom Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Thanks guys! I didn't realize that some of our TOG books were available here! I bet my 4th grader would like to have the option of listening to The Story of the Middle Ages! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Lava Mama Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 :confused: Hot Lava Mama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jg_puppy Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 :confused:Hot Lava Mama http://librivox.org/ Free audio recordings of a lot of classics. Thanks for starting this thread. I use this site for school things, but after reading this thread I thought I should download a few books for us to listen to on our long car trip that is coming up soon. Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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