Audio books can provide literature to your children as they are doing passive activities. They can perform chores or put together puzzles while listening to an adventure or drama read to them.
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Audio Books have great benefits for kids:
- Helps to expand vocabulary, pronunciation and fluency.
- Time management, multitasking
- Knowledge acquisition and familiarity with cultural literature
- Critical listening skills
- Focus and attention span improvement
- More Advantages: 10 Amazing Benefits of Audiobooks
Great Book Series for 8-14
Mr Lemoncello’s Library
by Chris Grabenstein
Mystery, fun facts with board games, video games and word puzzles.
Enjoy 4 Books in this Series
Listen on Overdrive, Cloud Library, Audible
Spirit Animals
by Brandon Mull
Adventures, Danger and Spirit animals that help to save Erdas.
Enjoy 7 Books in this Series. 2nd Series is Fall of the Beasts
- The Green Ember
- Peter Nimble
- Chronicles of Narnia
- Moby Dick
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Wonder
- Spy School
- Space Case
- Fun Jungle by Stuart Gibbs
- The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place
- Tom Sawyer
Great Book Series for ages 10-14
- Ranger’s Apprentice
- Brother Band Chronicles
- Age of Extinction
- Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit
- Percy Jackson
- Candy Shop Wars
Free Audio Books
Check your local library’s website for the Audio and Digital content they provide to their community. Seriously, google your library near you now and look at their Digital streaming and audio books that they offer. You’ll need a library card and account in order to use their resources.
The libraries often include the following Audio Book services:
- Hoopla Digital
High Quality audio books, ebooks and movies. - OverDrive
Provided through Libraries, this service has a decent selection of Audio books. - Cloud Library
High quality Audio books and provide mobile apps for listening to them. - RB Digital
Provides a selection of Audio books. - AudioBookCloud
Selection of Audio books. - TumbleBookLibrary
Early readers with interactive books read to you.
More Free Audio Books:
- StoryNory
Provides a small selection of books read to you. - Loyal Books
Free domain books and Audio books - DigitalAudio
Provides a set of free audio books along with a subscription service. - Librivox
Free domain books and Audio books - Lit2go
Free domain books and Audio books - Open Culture
Provides a huge list of free audio book resources - Learn Out Loud
Educational Audio books
If you would like to suggest more great Audio books, please let us know in the comments