Children's audiobooks
The Unfinished Robot
By: Roz Rosenbluth
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Klinker shops for his missing parts and surprises Dr. Blooper with the finished product. Read more
View audiobookThomas Jefferson's Mysterious Bones
By: Lisa Idzikowski
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Article about Thomas Jefferson's interest in mammoth fossils. Includes details about how William Clark collected fossils to send to the White House "Mammoth Room" for study. Read more
View audiobookAislinn's Caper
By: Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Aislinn finds a remedy for her pony's sore hooves. Read more
View audiobookBest Friends
By: Ana Galan
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 1 minute
Abridged: No
Spunky and Pepe are spending time together in the jungle. They are hot, so they cool off in the water. They are hungry, so they eat bananas. They both feel lucky to have a best friend. Read more
View audiobookSnowballs in Space
By: Tony Helies
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Gives information about a snowball fight with giant dirty snowballs that happened millions of years ago in space. Hence we have space on Earth for the oceans and the Moon has craters. Also explains how the snowballs that are left in space can turn into comets meteors or rings around planets like Saturn. Read more
View audiobookTwister!
By: Gayle L. Weidman
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Jason and his little brother Chad think they hear a train approaching on the abandoned train tracks but it turns out to be an approaching tornado. Read more
View audiobookMaking Movies
By: Marty Kaminsky
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Interview with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Includes information about how he became a documentary filmmaker and how he researches his subjects. Read more
View audiobookScaredy Rabbit: An East Indian Folktale
By: Marilyn Bolchunos
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A fearful rabbit is convinced the earth is caving in. Read more
View audiobookTo Do: Let Go of the List
By: Lissa Rovetch
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Arizona manages to go with the flow when the vacation doesn't take exactly the shape she'd dreamed of. Arizona makes a list of things to do with her cousin Sam while on spring break but he has other plans. Arizona did only a few of the things on her list but had other great experiences, one being the discovery of bats in a crack in a rock. Read more
View audiobookHow Do They Make Fog in Movies?
By: Highlights for Children
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Highlights's science editors answer kids' questions about How Stuff Works, such as How Do They Make Fog in Movies? Read more
View audiobookSailing to a Glacier
By: Patricia Hutchison
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 1 minute
Abridged: No
Photo essay about traveling to see Margerie Glacier. Points out various sights as one approaches a glacier, such as the moraines left behind and the quality of the water. Read more
View audiobookOne Smart Cat
By: Janeen R. Adil
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Cat teaches Jaguar how to be strong like he should be Read more
View audiobookStage Fright
By: Marne Venture
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Samantha gets stage fright when she is in the school play. Read more
View audiobookDear Alycia
By: Elizabeth Tevlin
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Jack takes over writing the "Dear Alycia" advice column after Alycia moves. He wants to tell his friends that he's "Alycia" but he's afraid they'll laugh. He writes a letter asking for advice from himself and reveals the secret to his school. Read more
View audiobookTwo Too Many Turtles
By: Wendi Silvano
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Highlights presents Two Too Many Turtles by Wendi Silvano: There is room for only so many turtles. Read more
View audiobookBouncing Back
By: Marty Kaminsky
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Famous athletes tell about mistakes they made when they were growing up and the lesson they learned from itโMaya Moore, Natalie Coughlin, Kevin Durant, Lauren Cheney, and Jeremy Campbell. Read more
View audiobookSir Walter and the Dragon Babies
By: Teresa Bateman
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Sir Walter, a knight who doesn't care much for typical knightly activities, is lucky to live in a peaceful kingdomโthat is, until a dragon appears and starts stealing crops and burning fields. Sir Walter has to do something to stop it. His kindness and his talent for making jam sandwiches come in surprisingly handy when he meets the baby... Read more
View audiobookThe Glockentown Clock Caper
By: Julia Quay
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Why has the town clock suddenly started emitting an awful screeching every day at 2:00? The townspeople beg Detective Raclette to solve the mystery. Read more
View audiobookGood-Times Cookies
By: Lissa Rovetch
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
On Mother's Day, Ollie misses his mother, but he still wants to do something special for Abuela. Read more
View audiobookThe Biggest Trucks in the World
By: Pat Parker
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Learn about trucks big enough to carry two buses and two pickup trucks at the same time! Read more
View audiobookThe Timbertoes: A Rare Sighting
By: Rich Wallace
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Highlights presents The Timbertoes: A Rare Sighting written by Rich Wallace. The Timbertoes see a moose. Read more
View audiobookBirds That Flock to Fires
By: Sneed Collard III
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Highlights presents Birds That Flock to Fires written by Sneed Collard III. The black-backed woodpecker lives almost only in forests that have been severely burned. it thrives on a type of beetle that is attracted to smoke and heat. The woodpeckers are just one of many bird species that thrive in the extreme environment of a burned-down forest. Read more
View audiobookSeeing Double
By: Lissa Rovetch
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Arizona discovers that her "fantastic" friend acts differently when other friends are around (she pretends not to know Arizona). Read more
View audiobookRiver Slide
By: Rich Wallace
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The Timbertoes follow the example of an otter and slide along the bank into the water. Read more
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