We love audio books. And I should say - we got started from our daily commute to and from school - now that we are less in the car, the kids still enjoy a good audio book as they color or do puzzles or play legos. Not all audio books are created equal. Sometimes the book is amazing but the reading is not quite as entertaining, or vice versa.
Here are a few of our favorite children's audiobooks, ones that we have checked out multiple times because they are just that good!
Lane Smith has two books that definitely top our list. The kids have LOVED John, Paul, George and Ben -- complete with a fun T/F quiz at the end and even a Beatles-esque song about the founding fathers. Also I just love when there is an interview with the author! The other favorite is Madam President. The kids love this take on being a president from a kid point of view. There are some fun pages, including one where she vetoes a whole bunch of stuff and each time in a different tone of voice or expression.
Oh how we love Laurie Keller! She has some stellar audio books and some super fun interviews as well! Some of our favorites are the Scrambled States of America and part two - the Talent Show, plus you really must check out the card game, too!
Exclamation Mark -- Amy Krouse Rosenthal has a number of great books, including Little Pea and Duck! Rabbit!, but Exclamation Mark as the audio version is just so cute- a good little grammar lesson wrapped in a fun story.
Skippyjon Jones books, by Judy Schachner are so fun to listen to, as well. The author reads them and the Spanish/English rolls off her tongue and the little songs come together as they were intended!
I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but that is a start!
Do you use audiobooks? Which ones are your favs?
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Friday, January 5, 2018
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Book List: Classics
I am happy to report that we had read several of the classics on our Kindergarten Book List. Of course, we had read Madeline and Curious George. Who hasn't? And for the record, they are both favorites.
We also own Swimmy, which is a cute story with beautiful pictures about a fish who problem solves so that he doesn't get eaten by a bigger fish!
The kids enjoyed Make Way for Ducklings, which is such a sweet classic written in 1941 and The Story of Ferdinand, which was completely new to us. This classic from 1936 is about a bull who is a sweet, mild fellow. The bull fighter crew comes to pick a bull for a big festival and gentle Ferdinand happens to sit on a bee and gets stung. He becomes the roughest, toughest bull in the herd and gets picked immediately. Will he perform in the arena? You'll have to read it to find out. :)
We happened to check out Joseph Had a Little Overcoat as a book with CD and were so glad we did. The author reads the story, of course, but then also sings it as a song in both English and Yiddish. This is a great story, but I would say I prefer the same folktale retold as Something from Nothing.
We also own Swimmy, which is a cute story with beautiful pictures about a fish who problem solves so that he doesn't get eaten by a bigger fish!
The kids enjoyed Make Way for Ducklings, which is such a sweet classic written in 1941 and The Story of Ferdinand, which was completely new to us. This classic from 1936 is about a bull who is a sweet, mild fellow. The bull fighter crew comes to pick a bull for a big festival and gentle Ferdinand happens to sit on a bee and gets stung. He becomes the roughest, toughest bull in the herd and gets picked immediately. Will he perform in the arena? You'll have to read it to find out. :)
We happened to check out Joseph Had a Little Overcoat as a book with CD and were so glad we did. The author reads the story, of course, but then also sings it as a song in both English and Yiddish. This is a great story, but I would say I prefer the same folktale retold as Something from Nothing.
Friday, October 3, 2014
Book List: Humorous Stories
So, awhile ago I shared that we're reading through "100 Picture Books to Read in Kindergarten" from a PLA (Public Library Association) poster. We have officially finished reading all of the ones at the public library and our personal library. There are a dozen or so that weren't available, so my Mom has been trying to get them from the library in her city. Every time she visits or we visit her, she has a few more checked out. :)
I thought I'd take a few blog posts to write about some of our favorites from the genres to pass on some new (or old) favorites!
Under the category of "Humorous Stories", I thought King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood was kind of weird and A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever was just ok. We have always enjoyed Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type and Diary of a Worm.
We own Little Pea, and the kids think it is hilarious. The funny twist is that this little pea HAS to eat all of his candy before he can have his most favorite treat, spinach. And then they live hap-pea-ly ever after.
Chester was a new one to us that cracked us up about a cat that keeps bugging the author as she tries to write a story about a mouse. The reader sees the cat interact with the author through red marker and in the end the author gives up and just writes about the cat.
Another book that the kids enjoyed from this genre is The Incredible Book-Eating Boy. The little main character develops a taste for books - actually eating them. The crazy thing is that when he eats the books, the information from them goes to his brain and he learns the information from them. But then he goes a little too far and eats too many too quickly - the information gets all jumbled up. He decides that just plain reading books is really the way to go, except that every once in a while... and then you see that the last few pages have bites out of them. :)
I definitely feel that a few funny books were missing from this list - although maybe they just aren't classified as "Kindergarten" books. What are some of your favorite humorous stories?
I thought I'd take a few blog posts to write about some of our favorites from the genres to pass on some new (or old) favorites!
Under the category of "Humorous Stories", I thought King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood was kind of weird and A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever was just ok. We have always enjoyed Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type and Diary of a Worm.
We own Little Pea, and the kids think it is hilarious. The funny twist is that this little pea HAS to eat all of his candy before he can have his most favorite treat, spinach. And then they live hap-pea-ly ever after.
Chester was a new one to us that cracked us up about a cat that keeps bugging the author as she tries to write a story about a mouse. The reader sees the cat interact with the author through red marker and in the end the author gives up and just writes about the cat.
Another book that the kids enjoyed from this genre is The Incredible Book-Eating Boy. The little main character develops a taste for books - actually eating them. The crazy thing is that when he eats the books, the information from them goes to his brain and he learns the information from them. But then he goes a little too far and eats too many too quickly - the information gets all jumbled up. He decides that just plain reading books is really the way to go, except that every once in a while... and then you see that the last few pages have bites out of them. :)
I definitely feel that a few funny books were missing from this list - although maybe they just aren't classified as "Kindergarten" books. What are some of your favorite humorous stories?
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