Children's audiobooks

The Time Machine - Abridged

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Iman

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This audio classic novel has been carefully abridged and adapted into 10 short easy to understand chapters. This format enables listeners of all ages and English language abilities to understand and enjoy the story. Composition includes original custom back ground music. Read more

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Abridged

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Iman

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are the same person. The townspeople do not know this, but inside Dr. Jekyll's laboratory, a serum has been concocted that enables the doctor to transform into a much darker person. The doctor struggles with this transformation and is torn between continuing to drink the serum and trying to recover into... Read more

Captains Courageous - Abridged

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Iman

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Harvey Cheyne falls overboard from a steamship and is rescued by a fisherman in the Newfoundland area. Harvey is the son of a wealthy railroad magnate and offers money to the captain whom rescued him, but the captain does not believe he is who he says. Harvey learns about fishing from the captain's son and begins to appreciate his new lifestyle... Read more

Frankenstein - Abridged

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Iman

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Victor Frankenstein is a talented scientist who creates what he sometimes refers to as a monster. The monster is a large creature made from human parts and comes to life, but feels rejected by his creator Victor, as well as most of the people with whom he comes in contact with. He winds up killing certain people in Victor's circle of family and... Read more

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Iman

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hank Morgan is a man from 19th-century Connecticut who, after having a head injury, wakes to find himself 1300 years in the past in the court of King Arthur of medieval England. The people of the time notice that he is strange yet knowledgeable, but due to his odd clothing and language, is sentenced to death but avoids it by knowing of a coming... Read more

Oliver Twist - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Iman

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Oliver Twist is a young boy whose mother died upon his birth and father is nowhere to be seen. Oliver ends up in an orphanage and is not treated especially well. Most of the children do not have enough to eat while the people in charge are well fed. The boys take a chance on asking for more food and Oliver is selected by chance. When he asks for... Read more

Sea Wolf - Abridged

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Iman

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A man is rescued at sea by the overbearing captain of a hunting schooner. Initially, the captain treats the survivor with a reasonable amount of dignity, unlike how he treats the rest of the crew. Later, another survivor is brought aboard and is a woman and the two survivors eventually escape the ship and find themselves on an island of seals.... Read more

The War of the Worlds - Abridged

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Iman

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This audio classic novel has been carefully abridged and adapted into 10 short easy to understand chapters. This format enables listeners of all ages and English language abilities to understand and enjoy the story. Composition includes original custom back ground music. Read more

The Man in the Iron Mask - Abridged

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Iman

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This audio classic novel has been carefully abridged and adapted into 10 short easy to understand chapters. This format enables listeners of all ages and English language abilities to understand and enjoy the story. Composition includes original custom back ground music. Read more

School Days According to Humphrey

By: Betty G. Birney

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A new school year and new friends for everyone's favorite classroom pet!

Humphrey is excited to get back to Room 26 and see all his old classmates. But on the first day of school, a bunch of strange kids arrive and no matter how loudly he squeaks up, they don't realize they're in the wrong room! Finally Humphrey realizes that these kids are his... Read more

Daddy-Long-Legs

By: Jean Webster

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1912, Daddy-Long-Legs is an epistolary novel that follows orphan Jerusha "Judy" Abbott through her college years through a series of letters written to her anonymous benefactor, whom she nicknames "Daddy-Long-Legs." As Judy learns to navigate the complex world of studies, social life, and romance, her letters convey her growth... Read more

Celtic Fairy Tales

By: Joseph Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive collection of traditional Celtic fairy tales. Joseph Jacobs' 1892 anthology of the most enduring folklore from Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and Cornwall is a delight for both young and old. Leprechauns, giants, witches, princesses, castles, and sea monsters all abound in this compendium of the best mythology Britain and Ireland have... Read more

Amelia Bedelia's First Field Trip

By: Herman Parish

Narrated by: Christine Ebersole

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

For almost fifty years, children have been reading about the hilarious adventures of Amelia Bedelia, the housekeeper so literal-minded she puts sponges in her sponge cake. Now, in a series of bestselling picture books, kids can discover what Amelia Bedelia was like when she was a little girl in elementary school.
 
In Amelia Bedelia’s First Field... Read more

Moon Over Manifest

By: Clare Vanderpool

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Cassandra Campbell & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

2011 NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER

The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen only in Gideon’s stories: Manifest—A Town with a rich past and a bright future.
 
Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live with an old friend for the... Read more

Abenteuer & Wissen, Alexander von Humboldt - Bis ans Ende der Welt

By: Robert Steudtner

Narrated by: Frauke Poolman, Max Simonischek, Michael Stange...

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Entdecker, Erfinder und Visionäre zum Hören greifbar - die spannende und unterhaltsame Wissensreihe Abenteuer & Wissen. - Peitschende Stürme, lauernde Jaguare, die gefräßigen Alligatoren des Orinoco - nichts kann den jungen preußischen Forschungsreisenden Alexander von Humboldt davon abhalten, seine Studien über die Zusammenhänge der Natur... Read more

Death on a Southern Breeze

By: Mark de Castrique

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A locked-room young adult whodunit in the classic tradition of Sherlock HolmesJune 1860. A new locomotive christened A Southern Breeze steams across the Carolina countryside carrying seventeen-year-old Jeb Bennett and his twin sister, Rachel Leigh, to the exhilarating promise of a summer in Charleston.While storm clouds gather over the... Read more

Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life

By: James Patterson & Chris Tebbetts

Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 2 million copies sold of the #1 New York Times and Indiebound bestseller!

Don’t miss the book behind the major motion picture! In the hilarious and awkward start to this mega-bestselling series, beloved misfit Rafe Khatchadorian takes on his first year of middle school…by breaking all the rules!
 
Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at... Read more

Earth Then and Now

By: Robert Quinn

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Read and discover all about Earth in the past and Earth today. How did Earth form? What natural resources does Earth give us? Read and discover more about the world! This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.An Oxford Press Audio production. Read more

The Story for Little Ones

By: Zondervan

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Now that they know their ABCs and 1-2-3s, are your children ready to start reading? The Picture That! Bible Storybook will help kids ages 6 and under feel like reading is easy-and fun too! This picture reader sprinkles over 90 full-color picture icons into more than 65 Bible stories. Noah and the ark full of animals, David and the giant, Jesus... Read more

The Story for Children, a Storybook Bible

By: Max Lucado, Randy Frazee & Karen Davis Hill

Narrated by: Max Lucado

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

With sweeping brushstrokes, God painted his creation across the emptiness. “Let there be light,” he called into the darkness, and a sweep of brightness blazed across the blank canvas. The Story for Children isn’t just another collection of Bible stories—it’s The Story—the big picture of God’s enormous love for his children! Presented by New York... Read more

Missing on Superstition Mountain

By: Elise Broach

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s summer and the three Barker brothers — Simon, Henry, and Jack — just moved from Illinois to Arizona. Their parents have warned them repeatedly not to explore Superstition Mountain, which is near their home. But when their cat Josie goes missing, they see no other choice. There’s something unusually creepy about the mountain and after the... Read more

A Need So Beautiful

By: Suzanne Young

Narrated by: Hannah Smith

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

We all want to be remembered. Charlotte's destiny is to be forgotten.Charlotte's best friend thinks Charlotte might be psychic. Her boyfriend thinks she's cheating on him. But Charlotte knows what's really wrong: She is one of the Forgotten, a kind of angel on earth who feels the Need—a powerful, uncontrollable draw to help someone, usually a... Read more

Secret Agent Jack Stalwart: Book 4: The Caper of the Crown Jewels: England

By: Elizabeth Singer Hunt

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Jack Stalwart. Code name: COURAGE. Jack is an ordinary kid who becomes a secret agent by night, thwarting evil all over the world as he searches for his missing brother, Max. Destination: England Some of England’s most prized possessions, the Crown Jewels, have been stolen from the Tower of London. Can Secret Agent Jack Stalwart triumph... Read more

Lights, Camera, Amalee

By: Dar Williams

Narrated by: Dar Williams

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When Amalee’s grandmother dies, she inherits a very strange object: a huge champagne bottle filled with over a thousand dollars’ worth of change. Amalee is told to spend the money on something important, so she decides to make a movie about endangered species. Soon there’s as much going on behind the scenes as there is in front of the camera, as... Read more