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In our post about Audible, I mentioned that my family listens to over 1,000 hours of audiobooks per year. Frankly, that is a conservative number. We listen to audiobooks religiously. It is no wonder then that I am routinely asked to recommend some favorites when friends are looking for books for car trips, quiet time for littles and lunch time books which tickle the brain while giving mom’s voice a rest. Over our years of membership at Audible we have amassed a substantial library of children’s classics and I wanted to share some of the treasures that we have loved. Affiliate link to a free trial for Audible here with a helpful promotion for you.
Many of the books listed below are the first of a series. In almost all cases, we love the whole series.
- 100 Cupboards (we have a book review)
- All of A Kind Family
- All of A Kind Family: More All of A Kind Family
- All of A Kind Family: All of A Kind Family Downton
- Anne of Green Gables
- At the Back of the North Wind
- The Aunt and Amabel
- A Bear Called Paddington
- The Complete Beatrix Potter
- Betsy Tacy
- Between the Forest and the Hills
- Black Beauty
- Black Ships Before Troy
- Black Star of Kingston (we have a book review)
- The Book of Dragons
- Caddie Woodlawn
- The Cat of Bubastes
- Charlotte’s Web
- The Collected Stories of Winnie The Pooh
- Come On Seabiscuit! (we have a review)
- Children of the Noisy Village (WARNING: Santa Claus Spoiler!)(we have a book review)
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (we have a review)
- D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
- Daddy Long Legs (we have a review – this is for older children)
- The Door in the Wall
- Eight Cousins
- Enemy Brothers (we have a review)
- Farmer Boy
- Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers (we have a review)
- Little Britches: Man of the Family (we have a review)
- Little Britches: The Home Ranch (we have a review)
- Little Britches: Mary Emma and Company (we have a review)
- Ember Falls (we have a review)
- Fifty Famous Stories
- Five For Victory
- Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
- Frog and Toad Collection (we have a review)
- Grasshopper on the Road (we have a review)
- The Green Ember (we have a book review here)
- Gulliver’s Travels
- Happy Little Family (we have a review)
- The Hedge School (we have a book review here)
- The Henry Huggins Collection
- The Hidden Treasure of Glaston
- The Hobbit
- Homer Price
- The House At Pooh Corner
- The Indian In the Cupboard
- Jim Herriot’s Treasury for Children
- The Jungle Book
- Just So Stories
- Knight’s Tales Collection
- The Light Princess
- Little Men
- A Little Princess
- Men of Iron
- Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
- Misty of Chincoteague
- The Moffats
- Mother Goose in Prose
- A Mouse Called Wolf
- Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
- The Mysterious Benedict Society (we have a book review)
- Narnia
- Now We Are Six
- Nurse Matilda (we have a book review)
- On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (we have a book reivew)
- Once On A Time (we have a review)
- Outlaws of Time (we have a book review)
- Otto of the Silver Hand
- Owl At Home (we have a review)
- Paddle to the Sea
- Pinocchio
- The Peter Rabbit Collection
- Peter and the Wolf
- Pollyanna
- Poems for Girls
- Poems for Boys
- The Princess and the Goblin
- The Princess and Curdie
- The Railway Children
- The Ramona Quimby Collection
- The Real Mother Goose
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (we have a review)
- Rolf and the Viking Bow
- Red Falcons of Tremoine
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
- The Secret Garden
- The Sheep Pig
- The Shoe Birds
- The Story of the Bible: Old Testament
- The Story of the Bible: New Testament
- The Story of Civilization
- Stuart Little
- The Swiss Family Robinson
- Twenty One Balloons – (we have a book review)
- Uncle Elephant (we have a review)
- Understood Betsy
- The Year of the Black Pony (we have a review)
- The Waterhorse
- Winnie the Pooh (unabridged)
- Winnie the Pooh (dramatized)
- The Wanderings of Odysseus
- The Winged Watchman (we have a book review here)
- The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection