Children's audiobooks
Show and Tell
By: Bruce Dawe
Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley
Length: 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Tommy takes six very special animals to Show and Tell, but they escape from the classroom. How will Tommy and Trish find them again? Read more
View audiobookThe Great Hair Robbery, Plus Three More
By: Alan Horsfield, Steve Wide, Josie Montano & Rol...
Narrated by: Katrina Baylis
Length: 1 hour 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The Great Hair Robbery by Alan Horsfield: Just before Christmas, Nellie discovers that someone has stolen everyone's hair. Bad Eggs by Steve Wide: The bad eggs, Eggbert, Rotten, Cracked and Fried, are in town, and they're hassling Omeletta du Champignon! Who's Wheelie the Fastest? by Josie Montano: Scooter, bike, skateboard, or... Read more
View audiobookHello, Possum!
By: Margaret Clark
Narrated by: Melissa Eccleston
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
There are lots of brushtail possums at Animal Haven and Fur Bag is the resident mischief maker. But when Ringlet the female ringtail possum is rescued, she needs special care and attention, and the Aussie Angels make sure she gets it. Then another ringtail is rescued from a flooded river and nearly causes a terrible disaster, but Boris Boola,... Read more
View audiobookPoor Fish!
By: Jane Godwin
Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley
Length: 15 minutes
Abridged: No
It's Saturday morning. Auskick starts soon. But there's something wrong with Brendan's fish. Read more
View audiobookThe Watching Lake
By: Elaine Forrestal
Narrated by: Stanley McGeagh
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Bryn and his family have just moved to a new house by the lake. The area is beautiful, teeming with wildlife. But soon there are scars on the landscape where the houses are being built - bulldozers tear at the earth, the sound of machinery rends the air. Once again the Min Min stirs... And this time it has chosen Bryn. Read more
View audiobookThe Garden of Empress Cassia
By: Gabrielle Wang
Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Mimi laid the box on the bench and opened it carefully. Inside were rows and rows of coloured pastels that shimmered in the light. She rolled them under her fingertips and her imagination began to fill with amazing pictures. When Mimi is given a box of magical pastels, she discovers that she can draw the Garden of Empress Cassia - a drawing so... Read more
View audiobookBeneath Quentaris
By: Michael Pryor
Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: No
In the fabled city of magic, mystery and mayhem, young Nisha is struggling to come to terms with her fire-magician heritage. With the help of young minstrel Tal, Nisha learns to control her power while being swept up in events that threaten Quentaris itself, leading her to the fabulous and forbidding underground streets of Lower Quentaris. This... Read more
View audiobookThe Invisible Fran
By: Jim Benton
Narrated by: Michele Medlin
Length: 33 minutes
Abridged: No
In this episode of Jim Benton's New York Times bestselling series, the classmates of Franny K. Stein show no appreciation for her passion-mad science. Even when Franny displays her two-headed robot, they show little interest. But after Franny makes herself invisible and whispers robot-improving suggestions, a few kids believe they've actually... Read more
View audiobookFirst Friend
By: Christobel Mattingley
Narrated by: Stig Wemyss
Length: 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Kerry is a little bewildered by how different things are on her first day at a new school. But she soon finds old friends in her favourite books in the school library and a real live friend, Black Dog. Read more
View audiobookThe Paw Thing
By: Paul Jennings
Narrated by: Stig Wemyss
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Oh yuck. The mice were running up my trousers. They wriggled under my shirt. They were even inside my underpants. Mice, madness and mayhem. Read more
View audiobookThe Gorilla Suit
By: Victor Kelleher
Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley
Length: 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Tom was given a gorilla suit for his birthday. He wears it everywhere, even to the zoo. Then he gets to meet the real gorillas and things get very complicated indeed. Read more
View audiobookSingenpoo Strikes Again
By: Paul Jennings
Narrated by: Stig Wemyss
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Major Mac pointed straight at me. 'There he is,' he growled. 'There's the one who stole my cat.' Mac the two-legged rat is back. And Singenpoo is in trouble ... Read more
View audiobookFollow that Lion!
By: Rosemary Hayes
Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley
Length: 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Hector's mum does some very strange things, but even he is astonished when his mum brings home a lion, and expects it to be a vegetarian. The lion wants meat, desperately, and so follows a mad chase. Read more
View audiobookSacked!
By: Rachel Flynn
Narrated by: Dino Marnika
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
After enduring socks in the wrong drawer, a bruised banana at lunch and a lump in the mashed potatoes at dinner, Edward has no alternative but to sack his mother. But as a miserable week draws to its close and his promised birthday party looms ahead, Edward discovers that mothers have their uses and manages to negotiate a new work-place agreement. Read more
View audiobookThe Mermaid's Tail
By: Raewyn Caisley
Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Crystal longs to be a mermaid so Mum makes her a flashing, silver tail. But the tail doesn't feel real enough until the night Crystal wears it to bed ... Read more
View audiobookWhite Sands, Red Menace
By: Ellen Klages
Narrated by: Julie Dretzin
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Ellen Klages' debut novel, The Green Glass Sea, was lavished with praise, including the Scott O'Dell Award for historical fiction. This sequel continues the story of science enthusiast Dewey Kerrigan, now living with her friend Suze's family in Alamogordo, New Mexico, after her father's death. Against the backdrop of America's quest for the... Read more
View audiobookFreeing Billy
By: Meredith Costain
Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley
Length: 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Benny loves the dog that lives nearby. But why does it always bark? And why is it so thin? Benny and his sister Astrid want to find out. Read more
View audiobookThe Magic Wand
By: Ursula Dubosarsky
Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Becky is fed up with her little brother trailing after her. With a swish of her newly discovered magic wand, her brother disappears-and a mysterious black cat appears! Where did he go? And how is Becky going to explain this to her mother? Read more
View audiobookA Savage Thunder
By: Jim Murphy
Narrated by: Kevin Orton
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A two-time Newbery Honor Book author, Jim Murphy is among the world's finest writers of nonfiction for children. In A Savage Thunder he takes listeners back to the American Civil War to tell the terrible yet extraordinary story of the Battle of Antietam. With the entire world watching, two armies met in Maryland in 1862. The Union needed a... Read more
View audiobookNude
By: Morris Gleitzman & Paul Jennings
Narrated by: Francis Greenslade & Melissa Eccleston
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Reptile spun the wheel and expertly changed gear. We screeched round a corner. I was flung back against the seat. Desperately I hung on to the howling baby. 'When your father finds out what you've done', I yelled at the blond boy, 'you're in for it.' I stared at them trying to take it in. I was being kidnapped at high speed in a military vehicle... Read more
View audiobookJust Another Hero
By: Sharon M. Draper
Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A two-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, Sharon Draper has penned numerous modern classics of youth literature. The third installment of her acclaimed Jericho trilogy, Just Another Hero returns to familiar territory for a new spin on her indelible characters. Arielle Gresham is faced with numerous problems at home, and a rash of petty... Read more
View audiobookMore Fish Tales
By: Paul Salmon
Narrated by: Peter Byrne
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
How did Terry Daniher save a famous Melbourne stately home's priceless chandelier from crashing to the floor? What happened when Lou Richards gave big Simon Madden a massage? Is Billy Brownless any good at making milkshakes? And what did James Hird want with the Fish at 3am, one hour after surgery? Paul Salmon - the Big Fish - reveals all in... Read more
View audiobookI'm Hungry, Daddy
By: Cliff Nichols
Narrated by: Roger Oakley
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
As a boy growing up during the Depression, Cliff Nichols watched alcohol rob his mother of her hope, her beauty and her life. And he vowed he'd never touch a drop. Until one fateful night when, at the age of nineteen, he says to a mate, 'One beer can't hurt, can it?' By his thirties Cliff is a hopeless alcoholic, homeless, shattered and walking... Read more
View audiobookBlue Hair Day
By: James Moloney
Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley
Length: 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Their grandmother loved blue. She also hated her grey hair. Sonya and Margo knew what to do. Read more
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