Audio Books

Know any good sites to download free audio books for elementary kids?

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on January 10, 2008 at 8:05am

Our public library offers 4000+ audio books. I don't know how the "membership" works but you could check it out and then check your local library. Warning about this option--the d/ls are not compatible with iPod.

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Permalink Reply by James Dykstra on January 10, 2008 at 10:30am

The only sites I know about are www.LoudLit.org and www.PodioBooks.com. I don't know how appropriate their selections are for your use. A lot of their material consists of older books now in the public domain, and, therefore, free.

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Permalink Reply by nlowell on January 10, 2008 at 10:43am

Podiobooks.com is mostly *new* stuff ... but also mostly for older audiences.

The Flown Sky is a nice one specifically geared for 7 - 12.

And there *is* a version of Wizard of Oz there as well.

There's not a lot of children's stuff per se, but there's a YA section and several titles which are avoiding the "YA" tag like the plague that it is.

If there's something in particular you're looking for, you can actually slide on over to the podiobooks community here and talk to the authors and readers there ... See if somebody would be willing to take on a project for you.

http://community.podiobooks.com

[Disclaimer: I'm a podiobooks author with four titles listed on the site -- none of which is particularly well suited to elementary school]

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Permalink Reply by galpao on January 10, 2008 at 10:47am

I suggest you should browse the catalog at LibriVox by genre (http://librivox.org/newcatalog/genres.php). The section "children" is available.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on January 10, 2008 at 4:39pm

There are a lot of places to d/l the classics like http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/ Check your public library for contemporary works.

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Permalink Reply by Michal on January 10, 2008 at 8:06pm

In Kansas, if you have a state Kansas library card you can download them from their website. You can listen to them on your computer, burn some of them to CD, or sync them to your MP3. You might check your state library & see if they have something similiar.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on January 11, 2008 at 6:26am

Hey, I'm from Kansas, too. I mentioned our library system in the first post! Small world, N.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin H. on January 11, 2008 at 3:35am

This site has a long list of audio stories:

http://www.storybee.org/

Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Ellen Pham on July 16, 2008 at 10:02am

This is a great site, Kevin! The quality, from the ones I clicked on, is so high- really professional. I wonder how I could find the "book" the story tellers are reading from, so I could match up print with text... I guess I could just listen and go through editions (err, I could). Great resource.