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We are leaving for the beach this weekend and I am trying to pick out a couple of audiobooks to listen to on the long trip down and back. We have Jim Weiss' American Tall Tales, but that is it. Our local library has a total of FOUR audiobooks for kids and they are all complete twaddle, except for Brown Bear, Brown Bear (and that lasts about 4 minutes and we have already checked it out several times  ). Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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Beatrix Potter! free at librivox
I haven't listened to this myself.. the readers are volunteers so you might want to be sure it's read in such a way that makes it nice to listen to is all.
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Any of the other Jim Weiss ones are big hits here! The Animal Tales, Arabian Nights, Fairy Tales, and Greek Myths are all current favorites. We even just like to listen to The Story of the World Vol. 1 audiobook. We did that the other day for a two hour car ride.
Also, check overdrive (if your library is affiliated) and librivox. Librivox has tons of classic children's novels. We have listened to Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland.... oh a ton more I can't even remember. The only audiobook we tried that I didn't like was The Hobbit.
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My kids have liked the Thornton Burgess animal books on Librivox, though the quality of the readers varies from chapter to chapter, and one or two we just had to skip, because they were unintelligible. No end of great stuff on Librivox, but sometimes we have a hard time getting past the reading voice.
We used to have, and don't any more, an audiobook of Treasure Island, which my older son at 4 could not get enough of. It was abridged, but the language wasn't kidded down, so he had to listen to it fairly intently at first. Still, it was read very thrillingly by a British actor whose name escapes me, and was a great listen.
Have fun driving and listening!
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Jim Weiss has a recording of Beatrix Potter and Thornton Burgess together. He's just the reader, so not through Great Productions. We'd checked it out from the library many times, but the discs were super pricey, however, it is now available on Audible.
He also has a reading of Wind in the Willows on audible.
We have listened to his Story of Sea Biscuit by Ralph Moody (through Great Hall) on multiple long trips. It is really nice.
Just FYI, many of JimWeias's Great Hall recordings are now available on iTunes.
The NArnia radio theatre productions from Focus on the Family are very well done and would be excellent for a car ride.
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SallyT wrote:
My kids have liked the Thornton Burgess animal books on Librivox, though the quality of the readers varies from chapter to chapter, and one or two we just had to skip, because they were unintelligible. No end of great stuff on Librivox, but sometimes we have a hard time getting past the reading voice.
We used to have, and don't any more, an audiobook of Treasure Island, which my older son at 4 could not get enough of. It was abridged, but the language wasn't kidded down, so he had to listen to it fairly intently at first. Still, it was read very thrillingly by a British actor whose name escapes me, and was a great listen.
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This is our experience, too, but my oldest loves Thornton Burgess so much, he doesn't mind, lol.
We've also listened to some George Macdonald and Edith Nesbit through librivox which was pretty good.
Oh, and Five Little Peppers is a good audio recording. The reader from the library version was much better, but I think the librivox wasn't annoying.
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The Little House books on audio really captured my boys at that age.
Jim Weiss Uncle Wiggily stories has been one of our favorites since they were little.
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As an aside, are you moms listening to these audio books in the car? Are you burning the audio files to cd, or do you have an mp3 player or something for the car?
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MPS player depends on the book if I listen or not.. we can plug the mp3 players into a transmitter and listen over the car radio.. or kids will listen (sometimes by twos) to the mp3 player.
There is a free reading of the Narnia books.. woman's voice, easy to listen to. I posted it here.
ETA for clarity.. we get a little $20-30 dollar player.. the sansa clips have lasted really well.. and the transmitter is one you buy that will plug into any device with the ear phone jack.. it gives something like 4 options on radio frequency.. battery power.
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MY MP3 plugs into my car and plays like it is a CD. I can also put MP3's on CD and play them that way (in our new car). I was planning on buying some CD's from amazon.com, but thanks for all the free or cheaper versions. I didn't even think of that! Thanks for all of your recommendations! I am thinking about also letting my son have an MP3 player or CD player in his room to listen to some of these during quiet time. Do any of you do that?
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I had been burning mine onto CD, but found that I had to use a LOT of CDs. My husband has a little converter thingy for his car's tape player, which he uses to run a portable CD player, but it will also plug into our computers and run our iTunes files. I download Librivox selections into iTunes, and now if we're going anywhere we can just take the computer and listen that way. I need to get another of those things for my van, though, so we're not constantly sneaking it back and forth between cars.
Lindsey -- my kids really love Burgess, too, so are willing to listen to just about any rendering of it. The Bird Book for Children, however, has one chapter recorded by what sounds to me like a very elderly woman who maybe has had a stroke or something -- God bless her for volunteering for a project like that, but we literally couldn't understand a word of that chapter. Fortunately that was the only one that was really un-listenable.
I'm going now to download Five Little Peppers!
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The Adventures of Sir Bernard,the Good Knight by Steve Green
It is a musical tale of virtue. Great foot tapping music. It also has a second track with just the story.
Available at www.sirbernard.com. Also christianbook.com and maybe your local christian book store.
No, I don't get any money for this endorsement. I have to admit that I listen to this even when the kids are not with me 
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Let's see... We've done:
Stuart Little
The Cricket in Times Square
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Freddie the Detective
The Boxcar Children
I'll keep thinking..
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