Children's audiobooks

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

By: Kate DiCamillo

Narrated by: Judith Ivey

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart. . . ."

Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely.

And then, one day, he was lost.... Read more

The Water Mirror

By: Kai Meyer

Narrated by: Toby Longworth

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In Venice, magic is not unusual. Merle is apprenticed to a magic mirror maker, and Serafin–a boy who was once a master thief–works for a weaver of magic cloth. Now, Venice is under siege by the Egyptian Empire; its terrifying mummy warriors and flying sunbarks are waiting to strike. All that protects the Venetians is the Flowing Queen. Nobody... Read more

Count Karlstein

By: Philip Pullman

Narrated by: Jo Thurley & Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Can you hear the distant howling of hounds and the thunder of ghostly hooves? It's All Souls' Eve and Zamiel the Demon Huntsman has come to claim his prey! He's headed straight for Castle Karlstein, where the evil count has hatched an evil plan; he'll sacrifice his two young nieces to save himself. Can Lucy and Charlotte outwit their uncle and... Read more

Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo: Books 11 & 12

By: Nancy Krulik

Narrated by: Anne Bobby

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Katie is an ordinary third-grader–except for one very extraordinary problem!  She accidentally wished on a shooting star to be anyone but herself. But what Katie soon learns is that wishes really do come true–and in the strangest ways . . .

No Messin’ with My Lesson
Katie’s teacher, Mrs. Derkman, is a finalist in the Teacher of the Year contest.... Read more

Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors

By: Jenny Nimmo

Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlie Bone’s power takes on a new dimension at Bloor’s Academy in Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors. There is a new cast of characters, including Mr. Pilgrim’s replacement, Tantalus Ebony, and the mysterious new student Joshua Tilpin, who appears to be magnetic. Billy has been adopted by a mysterious couple and is locked up in an odd... Read more

I, Coriander

By: Sally Gardner

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

It is night, and I have lit the first of seven candles to write my story by. My name is Coriander Hobie, and I have a great many things to tell–of silver shoes that tempted me and an alligator most rare; of London, the home of my childhood, and another, stranger land, one that I thought only existed in dreams; and of an ebony box whose treasure... Read more

Permanent Rose

By: Hilary McKay

Narrated by: Sophie Aldred

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Feisty Rose takes center stage as the highly original Casson family faces a long, hot summer. As usual, things are a bit chaotic. Eldest daughter Caddy is now engaged to darling Michael, and she’s not altogether sure she likes it. Saffy and Sarah are on a mission to find Saffy’s biological father (while cultivating hearts of stone). Indigo is... Read more

Sounder

By: William H. Armstrong

Narrated by: Avery Brooks

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Newbery Medal–winning classic novel about the courage and faith—and the love of a dog—that give a family strength in the face of inhumanity.The boy knows that times are tough for his family. Every night, his father goes out hunting with their great coon dog, Sounder, to try to put food on the table. But even with the little they bring back,... Read more

Drawing Lessons

By: Tracy Mack

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Aurora is an artist like her father. Through a hundred drawing lessons, he has guided her hand, trained her eye, taught her how to mix colors and achieve perspective. Together they plan to paint a beautiful mural for Rory's mother, maybe a sunset because she always misses the real sunset while she's at her job, supporting the... Read more

The Principal's on the Roof: A Fletcher Mystery

By: Elizabeth Levy

Narrated by: William Dufris & Christine Marshall

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The principal has promised to read aloud from the school's roof if the students read 1000 books during their reading marathon. When he agrees to read a story by Fletcher's owner Gwen, she is thrilled - until the principal starts sneezing uncontrollably as he's reading her science fiction story about aliens who live on rooftops and make humans... Read more

Christina's Ghost

By: Betty Ren Wright

Narrated by: Carol Jordan Stewart

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this adroitly woven tale of suspense and the supernatural, Christina and her Uncle Ralph forge a reluctant but touching relationship when the young girl spends the summer in his isolated Victorian mansion. The two come together on a ghost hunt that may be linked to murders that took place in the house thirty years earlier. Read more

Space Boy

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Is it space travel that children dream of, or merely visiting other worlds? Todd had always set his heart on being an astronaut, but when he meets an alien and travels to another world, he doesn’t use a spaceship; he just hangs out in his own backyard.In Space Boy, Orson Scott Card, author of Ender’s Game, takes listeners into a strange and... Read more

Out of Time

By: Carol Lynn Thomas

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

How many fourteen-year-old boys would turn down an offer of time travel to any baseball game in history? Certainly not die-hard New York Yankees fan, Matt Collier. Accompanied by the Time Keeper, guardian of Time throughout the universe, Matt becomes the batboy for his beloved team and tries to change the outcome of the 1960 World Series, the... Read more

Juliette Low

By: Helen Boyd Higgins

Narrated by: Lynne Taccogna

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Share the childhood adventures of the young girl from Savannah, Georgia, who would grow up to found the Girl Scouts®. “Daisy” Gordon would rather climb a tree and ride a horse than learn to dance and sew. “There’s not one thing I can’t do that boys can,” said Daisy, and the organization she created years later proved her words.Praised by... Read more

Dressed to Steal

By: Carolyn Keene

Narrated by: Rebecca Rogers

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In Dressed to Steal, hot young designer Alicia Adams is opening a boutique in her hometown of River Heights. The press is all over the event. When the big day comes, tons of people show up, but when the crowd presses forward, the store window is smashed and people are injured! Later Alicia’s most expensive dress is destroyed and her store is... Read more

The Basket of Flowers

By: unknown

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of a gardener named James and his young daughter, Mary. Their simple, joyful life is interrupted when Mary is accused of theft. During the trial, Mary maintains her innocence and tells the truth, in spite of great pressure. But Mary and her father are convicted as thief and accomplice and begin their sentence for the crime.... Read more

Calendar Quest

By: Jennifer Johnson Garrity

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

What do bald men in skirts, ancient geeks, pompous popes, and bickering bishops have in common? They all took part in shaping the calendar that hangs on your wall. Together with a host of famous and not-so-famous characters, they adjusted, fine-tuned, and tinkered around with what would eventually become the western world’s most popular tool for... Read more

Worth

By: A. LaFaye

Narrated by: Tommy Fleming

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Life for a family on a Nebraska homestead is difficult, with illness and weather causing worries about crops and finances, and conflicts between ranchers and farmers. For 11-year-old Nate’s family, the days grow even darker when he gets his leg crushed in a farm accident. To help out, Nate’s father brings home John Worth, just off the Orphan... Read more

The Light Princess

By: George MacDonald

Narrated by: Cynthia Bishop

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s a well known fact that a new-born princess will often be subject to a curse—especially if her royal parents neglect to invite an important magical relative to the christening. But never has there been a curse as charming (and hilarious) as that which befalls the Light Princess. Deprived of gravity, she can’t take anything—or... Read more

Elsie’s Girlhood

By: Martha Finley

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

As Elsie Dinsmore grows up, her family undergoes major changes. Her father, Horace Dinsmore, falls in love and marries sweet Rose Allison, whom Elsie has loved since childhood. Soon two new members, Horace Jr. and Rosebud, join the happy family.Elsie has grown into a graceful, accomplished, and beautiful young woman of fifteen who faces the... Read more

Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth

By: Alison McGhee

Narrated by: Rachael Lillis

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The team from Countdown to Kindergarten is back with another irresistible story of childhood fears overcome. This time, advice from a "knowledgeable" second grader has the first grade worry-wart convinced that her new teacher is really a three-hundred-year old alien who steals baby teeth from her students. Which is especially worrisome since... Read more

Eddie Rickenbacker

By: Kathryn Cleven Sisson

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker’s first attempt at flight was riding his bicycle off the roof while holding an umbrella! Growing up in the Midwest in the early 1900s, young Eddie, whose parents were Swiss immigrants, worked hard to help support his family but found time to build a “pushmobile,” experience a thrilling ride in a... Read more

What Katy Did Next

By: Susan Coolidge

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Katy was the sort of girl who might do anything next, so long as it was something exciting! At twenty-one, she was as eager for adventure as ever, and what greater adventure could there be for an American girl than a trip to Europe? Watching a Punch-and-Judy show in London…driving down the Champs-Élysées in Paris…on to the Riviera and the... Read more

Aesop’s Fables

By: Aesop

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Much of the richness of our language and moral education is owed to a Greek slave who was executed over two thousand years ago. Literally hundreds of metaphors, axioms, and ideas that are woven into the very fabric of Western culture—from “sour grapes” and “crying wolf” to “actions speak louder than words” and “honesty is the best policy”—all... Read more