quiet time and books on cd

[Osaubi]

I have just started quiet time in our house. My kids are still young, but past nap time. I found that they are better behaved if they get time to themselves everyday. My ds6 loves books on CD. He seems to be going thru them pretty quickly. He will go through a 3hr CD in 2 days. He said he only wants to listen to them once. Does anyone have a list of recommended books on CD?


TIA

[Osaubi]

I have just started quiet time in our house. My kids are still young, but past nap time. I found that they are better behaved if they get time to themselves everyday. My ds6 loves books on CD. He seems to be going thru them pretty quickly. He will go through a 3hr CD in 2 days. He said he only wants to listen to them once. Does anyone have a list of recommended books on CD?


TIA

[newlifemom]

:lurk5: again, me too.:D

[Aletheia Academy]

We have the same practice in o9ur home. My 5yo ds has enjoyed everything from Jim Weiss selections (Tom Sawyer, Jungle Book, etc) to Beatrix Potter, to the Chronicles of Narnia series to The Hobbit. It has been a fantastic way to expose him to great litrerature and language, and it certainly has increased his vocabulary. Enjoy!

[langfam]

This past week I started looking into this, but books on CD are so expensive. Do you have any suggestions for getting them cheaply?

[Patricia in WA]

Audible.com (http://www.audible.com) and our local library. Audios are a big learning tool for us. There are some podcast like Lit2Go (http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/) that we love also.

HTHs

[Medieval Mom]

I just started this as well with my 5 year old, in preparation for the time when I'll need to sit and nurse. (Our next baby is due at Thanksgiving.) Here's a list of audiobooks I compiled for our own use this year. Hope this helps! My son LOVED Freddy the Detective on a recent long car trip. He's also listened to Peter Pan and Stuart Little over and over and over again!

Atwater, Richard. Mr. Popper’s Penguins.
Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan
Baum, L. Frank. The Wizard of Oz.
Bennett, William J. The Children’s Book of Virtues.
Bond, Michael. A Bear Called Paddington.
Brooks, Walter R. Freddy the Detective.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. A Little Princess
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden
Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
Cleary, Beverly. The Mouse and the Motorcycle.
Dickens, Charles. Christmas Carol.
Gannett, Ruth Stiles. Three Tales of My Father’s Dragon.
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. [Read by Jim Weiss, unab.]
Herriot, James. Cat Stories
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Books, I and II. (See also Jim Weiss, below)
Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories. [Read by Jim Weiss, unabridged.]
Lawson, Robert. Rabbit Hill.
Lewis, C.S. The Chronicles of Narnia.
Lindgren, Astrid. Pippi Longstocking.
McDonald, George. The Princess and Curdie.
Nesbit, Edith. The Complete Book of Dragons.
Nesbit, Edith. The Railway Children.
O’Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
Osborne, Mary Pope. Tales from the Odyssey
Paschen, Elise. ed. Poetry Speaks to Children
Selden, George. The Cricket in Times Square.
Weiss, Jim. [Classic stories for children. Mostly abridged, however. Check]
Story of the World, Vol. 1-IV Unabridged. (Probaby not this year...)
White, E.B. Charlotte’s Web.
White, E.B. Stuart Little.
White, E.B. The Trumpet of the Swan.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House on the Prairie.

[tristangrace]

My daughter looooooooooooooooooooves the "Ramona" audio books by Beverly Cleary, read by Stockard Channing. (Fortunately, I find I'm able to listen to them multiple times in a row, too, 'cause my kiddo will listen to the same story over and over and OVER ad naseum.) The protagonist is a , but your son may enjoy them too. They're well written, and so realistic that it's easy for 5-9 yos to relate to them.

Susan

[Alana in Canada]

There's also Story Nory. I downloaded two discs worth of stories for my daughter.

http://storynory.com/category/fairy-tales/

There's all kinds of things, so take a good look around.

There's also Librivox, which is also free. One we have particularily enjoyed is North American Indian Folktales by WT Larned

http://librivox.org/newcatalog/

(Just type in titles and authors you are looking for. However, for the work to be recorded, it must be in the public domain--which means the copyright has expired. So, there's nothing too recent.) As well, the recordings can be a bit hit or miss--so have a listen first.

Occaisionally, naxos will feature a free download.
http://www.naxosaudiobooks.com/northamerica/juniorfiction.htm

(We got a Sherlock Holmes story that way, once)

And here are Trivium Academy's bookmarks for audio books: hope you don't mind, Jessica!

http://ww2.ikeepbookmarks.com/browse.asp?folder=1970107&clientWidth=0

hth

[woolybear]

Cheaply--the library, e-bay, used hs curriculum sites.

[Osaubi]

thanks for the suggestions....copying the lists now :thumbup: