Best audio books for children

The Audio Book

An audio book is a recording of the text that is being read. The audio book is not essentially the exact or original audio version of a magazine or book.

The spoken audio has now been accessible in public libraries and schools come into as lighter extent in music shops since the year 1930s. Severalspoken word albums or the audio bookswere generated prior to the age of compact discs, videocassettes and DVDs,frequently plays rather than in books. It started in early 1980 that the audio books instigated to attract retailers of book, the retailers of book then started to display on the bookshelves of different audio books.

Parents who used to travel most of the time tend to use audio books in their cars, aside from teaching them and spending quality time, they make their kids smarter. Some of the audio books are already read and seen in the movie, but the version in audio is much astounding.

Audio books for 2 to 3 years old

Best audio books from ages 2 to 3 years old and up include the Berenstain Bears’ Stories, the Brown bears and friends by Martin, Bill, Love you forever, the best of Robert Munsch Sleeping Beastly: And Other tales from Maynard Moose by Claflin Willy, The House at Pooh Corner composed by A.A. Milne, The Jamie Curtis, Uglified Ducky: Traditional And Original Storiesby Curtis, Jamie Lee.

Audio books for 4 to 5 years old

Audio books that are good for ages 4 to 5 years of age and up include; the Peggy Parish composition which is the Amelia Bedelia that is on CD Audio Collection, American Tall Tales composed by Jim Weiss, Faded Love or Let Sleeping Dogs Lie or the Hank the Cowdog composed by Erickson, John R, Jeff Brown composition: Flat Stanley a CD Audio Collection, Giants! A Colossal Collection of Tunes and Tales by Jim Weiss, books 1 to 8: Junie B. Jones Audio Collectionby Barbara Park, It’s a Dog’s Life or Murder in Middle Pasture - Hank the Cowdog composed by John R. Erickson, The Battle of Mad Scientists & Other Tales of Survival composed by Harley, Bill, The Giants & the Joneses composed by Julia Donaldson, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency composed by Pink water, Daniel, The Jungle Book made by Weiss, Jim and The Original Adventures of Hank the Cow dogcomposed by John R. Erickson.

Audio books for 6 to 7 years old

For ages 6 to 7 years old and up, best audio books include the collection of Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, & Other Scary Things & Allergic to Hiking, Camping & Other Natural Disasters composed by Leonore Look, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming, Steig William composition: Doctor De Soto, the series book of Geronimo Stilton book 1 to 3, the J.K Rowling Books 1 to 3 of Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone, the Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter &the Prisoner of Azkaban, Ivy & Bean composed by Annie Barrows, the book collection by Osborne, Mary Pope: Magic Tree House, The Roald Dahl Audio Collection composed by Roald Dahl, Matildacomposed by Roald Dahl, The BFG composed by Roald Dahl, the volume 1 of The Boxcar Children Collection by Gertrude Chandler Warner, the George Selden composition: The Cricket in Times Square and The Mouse & the Motorcyclecomposed by Lydia Permanyer.

Audio books for 8 to 9 years old

Audio books best for ages 8 to 9 year old and up include the book series of Harry Potter by J.K Rowling: Harry Potter &the Goblet of Fire the Book 4, the Harry Potter & the Order of Phoenix the Book 5, Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince the Book 6 and Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows. You’re a Bad Man Mr Gum!composed by Andy Stanton is also good for kids, The Castle in the Attic composed by Winthrop Elizabeth, the CD collection of Sarah, Plain& Tallby Patricia McLachlan, The Secret History of Tom Trueheart by Ian Beck, The Tail of Emily Windsnap composedby Liz Kessler, The Wayside School Collectioncomposed by Louis Sachar
The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, The book 1 of Nixie’s Song:Beyond The Spiderwick Chroniclesby Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black,The Witches composed by Roald Dahl, the Dragonsdalecomposed by Salamada Drake, From the Mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler composed by E. L. Konigsburg, the Nim’s Island composed by OrrWendy, Greek Myths by Jim Weiss, the audio library of New Girl or Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girlsby Meg Cabot.

^{Audio books for 10 to 11 years old}

For ages 10 to 11 years and up, best audio books includes the Eleanor Estes composition: Ginger Pye , the volume 1 of Araminta Spookie: My Haunted House & The Sword in the Grotto composed by Angie Sage, A House Called Awful End composed by Philip Ardagh, The Fast & the Furriest composed by Andy Behrens, Ella Enchanted made by Gail Carson Levine, the book 1 of The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan, the book 2 of The Sea of Monsters - Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan, the book 3 of The Titan’s Curse - Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan, the book 5 of The Battle of the Labyrinth - Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan, the book 5 of The Last Olympian - Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan, Holes made by Louis Sachar, Roald Dahl composition: George’s Marvelous Medicine, Inkheart made by Cornelia Funke, the Secret Garden composed by Francis Hodgson Burnett, Brock Cole composition: The Indian in the Cupboard and the 3 Tales of My Father’s Dragon made by Ruth Stiles Gannett.

Audio books for 12 years old and above

Best audiobooks for ages 12 year old and up include The Mysterious Benedict Society composed by Trenton Lee Stewart, The London Eye Mystery made by Siobhan Dowd, Charlie Bone & The Shadow made by Jenny Nimmo, Coralinecomposed by Neil Gaiman, the no. 1 immortal series of Evermore by Alyson Noel, the Fablehaven made by Brandon Mull, Hoot made by Carl Hiassen and Scat composed by Carl Hiassen, The Hobbit made by J.R.R. Tolkien, the book 1 of The Jaguar Stones: Middleworld made by J&P Voelkel and The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan.

Other Audio Books

The following also are good audio books for children from ages 1 year old and up includes the following:

·A Single Shard – Park which is Read by Graeme Malcolm

·The Almost Astronauts

·A Year Down to Yonder, Peck that was read by Lois Smith

·A Long Way From Chicago, Peck read by Ron McLart

·The Bears of Hemlock Mountain

·Bud Not Buddy

·Belle Prater’s Boy – White which was narrated by Alison Elliot

·The Bloomability

·Because of the Winn-Dixie, DiCamillo Read by CherryJones

·The Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White

·Charlie & the Glass Elevator

·Chestnut Soldier

·The Dragon Rider which was read by Fraser Brenden

·Eragon – Paolini that was read by DoyleGerard

·Ellen Tebbits – Cleary narrated by Andrea Martin

·Elijah of Buxton – Curtis, which was narrated by Mirron Willis

·Gregor the Overlander – Collins that was read by Paul Boehmer

·How to Eat Fried Worms

· Hope Was Here – Bauer which was read by Jenna Lamia

·Henry Huggins series – this was clearly narrated by Neil Patrick Harris

·The Hatchet – Paulsen that was narrated by Peter Coyote

·Island of the Blue Dolphin

·Life as We Knew It – Pfeffer which was read by Emily Bauer

·Lizzie Bright & the Buckminster Boy – Schmidt that was narrated by Sam Freed, who’s the narration, brings life vividly to all the characters

·Maniac Magee

·Number the Stars

·No Talking

·Over Sea and Under the Stone – Cooper, this was narrated by Jennings, Alex

·The Prince Caspian – Lewis that was narrated by Redgrave, Lynn

·Pictures of Hollis Woods composed by Patricia Reilly Giff

·Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Taylor that was narrated by Lynne Thigpen

·Rules-by Lord

·Sarah Plain and Tall

·Stargirl – Spinelli that was read by John Ritter

·Saffy’s Angel – McKay that was read by Julia Swahla

·The Amulet of the Samarkand – Stroud that was narrated by Jones Simon

·The City of Bones composed by Cassandra Clare

·The Golden Compass that is composed by Philip Pullman

·The Phantom Tollbooth – Juster that was narrated by David Hyde Pierce

·The series of Last Apprentice– Delaney that was narrated by Welch, Christopher Evan

·The Mysterious Benedict Society series – Stewart that narrated by Del Roy

·The Princess Diaries – Cabot that was read by Anne Hathaway

·The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants – Brashares that was read by Angela Goethals

·The Sign of the Beaver

·The Snow Spider

·Twilight – Meyer that was read by Ilyana Kadushin

·The Penderwicks on Gardham Street – Birdsall, that was narrated by Susan Denaker

· White Giraffe that was narrated by Andoh Adjoa, whose accent is African that makes the whole thing in the book more beautiful and realistic to listen

·Where the Red Fern Grows – Rawls that was read by Anthony Heald

·When You Reach Me

·Walk Two Moons