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? we have listened to a few if Edith Nesbit's books and all the Oz books, but I would like to branch out a bit. The problem is that I don't know which books or authors to search for and browsing the catalog is too overwhelming. So if you have any recommendations for the 5-7 crowd I'd love to hear!

 

Thanks!

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Not many. We don't use many audio books, and the ones I do choose are carefully chosen to provide the best models possible.

 

About once a year, audible.com gives me a few months of reduced subscription that gives me a credit a month. The rest I get from the library. Sometimes I buy a book from Currclick or CBD; Elsie Dinsmore was a favorite of one student. I got a bunch free from Amazon/Audible.

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The Andrew Lang Fairy Books, Secret Garden, Little Princess, Heidi, Beatrix Potter, Peter Pan are some that we have enjoyed at that age. I prefer to go to booksshouldbefree.com to search for children's books. It often links back to Librivox, but I prefer the search option on that site.

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Thanks for the suggestions. keep then coming! I bookmarked the books should be free site awhile ago but had forgotten about it. Thanks for the reminder.

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There is a reader named Kara Shallenberg who reads a lot of children's books, including some of the books mentioned here. Her voice takes a little getting used to, but she reads with good expression. She reads Grammar Land, Heidi, The Golden Goose Book, and others that I can't remember right now. My kids have enjoyed all of her recordings that we've listened to so far. Also, we've listened to many of the Thornton Burgess books. A man named John Leader reads many of them. He is very good.

 

HTH,

Sue

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There is a reader named Kara Shallenberg who reads a lot of children's books, including some of the books mentioned here. Her voice takes a little getting used to, but she reads with good expression. She reads Grammar Land, Heidi, The Golden Goose Book, and others that I can't remember right now. My kids have enjoyed all of her recordings that we've listened to so far. Also, we've listened to many of the Thornton Burgess books. A man named John Leader reads many of them. He is very good.

 

HTH,

Sue

 

 

she reads some of the Oz books too. we really like her. I'm glad know that she has done more.

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Of course I am predudiced, but I would like to recommend several books that I recorded: Children's Life of the Bee by the famed naturalist Maeterlinck, Maurice. He modified his original classic book specifically for children and it contains great information. Pollyanna which is just one of many versions but soooo much fun to read; The Story of Dr. Doolittle (the orignial book) and Half Past Bedtime which is a collection of bedtime stories that I thought were exceptionally well written.

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Of course I am predudiced, but I would like to recommend several books that I recorded: Children's Life of the Bee by the famed naturalist Maeterlinck, Maurice. He modified his original classic book specifically for children and it contains great information. Pollyanna which is just one of many versions but soooo much fun to read; The Story of Dr. Doolittle (the orignial book) and Half Past Bedtime which is a collection of bedtime stories that I thought were exceptionally well written.

 

 

ooh thanks! I will look for these.

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