Audio Books

Last summer I caught the audio book bug. My children and I started taking audio books out of our public library before our vacation. We listened to Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach and we started The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis as we traveled on Route 95 from Connecticut to Rhode Island and back again. It was truly miraculous the way a peace settled over our car as the reader kept us on the edge of our seats with these two fabulous stories. We didn't actually finish the second story on our trip, because my husband insisted on listening to some music as well, so we had to finish when we got home. We listened to the rest of the story on our daily drives around town to the grocery, or the library and that sort of thing. We would pull into our driveway and the kids would say don't turn the car off until the end of the chapter. It was wonderful. Since then we have taken out dozens of other stories, long and short, and we listen to them every day whenever we get in the car. If there is ever a night that gets really busy and I just find I don't have time to read out loud to my children I don't feel as guilty because I know that we were able to share out books in the car.

My five year old daughter reports that her favorite books we've listened to so far are: Little House on the Prairie and Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Fudge-a-Mania by Judy Blume, and The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi.

My 7 year old son reports that his favorites that we've listened to so far are: The Odyssey by Mary Pope Osborne, Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and A Cricket in Times Square by George Selden, and Frindle by Andrew Clements.