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I just got a coupon via email. If I use up 4 credits at Audible, I can get $10 more to spend.
Anybody have a great reaction to an audiobook lately? What should I get?
Thanks in advance for suggestions.
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Just bumping this up - I have about 4 credits left before my membership stops. Any favorite recommendations? I have purchased many of the redwall series for my son - anymore for the 11 yr boy age group (he loves history too) Or on the other hand any startling picks for Mum? (maybe on the spiritual side)
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We've just loved Deltora Quest. Fantasy though and scary in parts for little ones. Kept us all engrossed during a loong road trip.
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The Once and Future King is fabulous. I let my kids under 13 listen only to The Sword in the Stone (the first half), because the second part is much darker and more adult. I bought the Audible version back in August, when we were driving from NC to TX to take our daughter to college, and it kept everyone (kids aged 17-7) enormously entertained. Getting it for free felt like such a total coup -- it would normally sell for something like $50.
They do have an unabridged Sword in the Stone with the same narrator (whose name escapes me right now, unfortunately, but he's fabulous).
My 7- and 9yos also recently enjoyed The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright. Just a good old-style (1940s) family story, about four kids who pool their money so that each one of them can have his or her dream Saturday adventure. Very much like Eleanor Estes' Moffats stories, which we also love but have not yet gotten on audio.
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SallyT wrote:
The Once and Future King is fabulous. I let my kids under 13 listen only to The Sword in the Stone (the first half), because the second part is much darker and more adult. I bought the Audible version back in August, when we were driving from NC to TX to take our daughter to college, and it kept everyone (kids aged 17-7) enormously entertained. Getting it for free felt like such a total coup -- it would normally sell for something like $50.
They do have an unabridged Sword in the Stone with the same narrator (whose name escapes me right now, unfortunately, but he's fabulous).
My 7- and 9yos also recently enjoyed The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright. Just a good old-style (1940s) family story, about four kids who pool their money so that each one of them can have his or her dream Saturday adventure. Very much like Eleanor Estes' Moffats stories, which we also love but have not yet gotten on audio.
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I know this is an old thread, but years ago I bought Once and Future King on a whim--I think it was in one of those sales and was a bargain--but no one ever really listened to it. But now, my 11 year old is and is LOVING it. There are multiple parts to the audible book, but they aren't related to the actual books in the series, and the chapter numbers are just the chapters withing the Audible breakdown, not the actual book chapters.
So, for now, I told him he could listen until it started a new book, but I just wanted to make sure that the Audible book noted the difference. Does the narrator at least announce the start of the book at start numbering the chapters again? Do you happen to know where it breaks off?
I was pretty sure I'd heard that The Sword in the Stone was solid as a children's book but the later books were not suitable, and when I told him I didn't want him listening further, given his obvious enjoyment for the children's story he was disappointed. I tried to explain that the later books were different and "more adult" and he argued, "But I've read Lord of the Rings." I said this was different than that, and he looked confused and said, "What, does it start getting all economical or something?" 
The good news? Apparently we will all start understanding economics when we are adults. 
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Ha.
And I can't remember now where the breakoff is. It's been a while since we listened to it. At this point I think probably everyone in my house has heard the whole thing . . . I kind of stopped policing so much as the older ones got that much older, so my younger ones have been exposed to a lot more, just because older ones were listening/watching/etc.
That doesn't help you at all, I realize . . .
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