Free Range Readers (and listeners) - Audio Books
We really like audio books. Whether on the memory stick in the car or via the sonos before bed. Here are a selection of our current favourites, I appreciate some of these might be hard to access if you are overseas. We have discovered that many more titles than you might assume are available in audio book format, they can be really useful if you are driving a long way or, if have more than one child and are being pulled in several directions, especially at bedtime if you don't have a free hand to turn the pages of a real book.
The BBC R4 adaptation of Swallows and Amazons (Arthur Ransome)
Charlotte's Web
Danny Champion of the World - Roald Dahl
George's Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl
Matilda - Roald Dahl
Five Children and It - E Nesbit
The Railway Children E Nesbit
The Magic City E Nesbit with Jane Horrocks and David Jason
Bed knobs and Broomsticks - Mary Norton
The Phoenix and the Carpet - E Nesbit
The Daddy One, S & I rather like the Harry Potter series narrated by Steven Fry
Famous Five. Yes, I know Enid was banned by the BBC and libraries but Uncle Quentin and the chats we have had about children who drink coffee and Latin.......they have been a real springboard to other things.
These are they
Five Get Into A Fix
Five Go Down to the Sea
Five on Mystery Moor
Five have a mystery to Solve
Five on a hike together
Five on a secret Trail
Five on Finniston Farm
Five on Treasure Island
Five Get Into Trouble
Five go Adventuring Again
Five go to Billy cock Hill
Five go to Demon's Rocks
Five go to Smuggler's Top
Five have Plenty of Fun
Five on Kirrin Island Again
Five Run Away Together
We are always on the look out for more so do alert me to any classics that might have been missed. At time of publishing The Smalls are seven, five and two and these have been their top selections since we drove to Tuscany in September 2010 so a while now.
