Reading is Magic: Children’s Book Week

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Nanny Piggins

By: R.A. Spratt
Narrated by: R.A. Spratt
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

A Nanny with trotters!

Nanny Piggins, the world's most glamorous flying pig, runs away from the circus and goes to live with the Greens as their nanny. The Green children, Derrick, Samantha and Michael, fall in love with her instantly. Who could not fall in love with a Nanny whose only job qualifications are her astonishing ability to be fired... Read more

Hamlet is Not OK

By: R.A. Spratt
Narrated by: R.A. Spratt
Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

“This book offers a delightful twist on Hamlet, making it an engaging read for middle-grade students who might struggle with more traditional literature. The characters are likable, and their intentions are believable, though a bit more explanation about how they got transported into the novel would have been helpful. Despite this, it didn't... Read more

Willa and Woof 1: Mimi is Missing

Willa and Woof 1 and 2

WILLA AND WOOF

By: Jacqueline Harvey
Narrated by: Jacqueline Harvey
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

From the bestselling author of Alice-Miranda comes this humorous and heartfelt series about eight-year-old Willa and her best four-legged friend, Woof!
This audiobook contains the first two books in the Willa and Woof series. Read more

Look Both Ways

A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

By: Jason Reynolds
Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms, Chris Chalk, Bahni Turpin, Kevin R. Free, JD Jackson, Guy Lockard, January LaVoy, Jason Reynolds, Adenrele Ojo & David Sadzin
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

“Each chapter is a different voice in the audiobook, with the final chapter read by Jason Reynolds himself (which is perfect, because it is the most poetic, as well). I adored this book, and my students are loving it, too! The little clues throughout about the bus, and the way the characters subtly interact without realizing it is masterful. Read more

Finding Hope

A Whistledown Farm Adventure: Book #1

By: Nicola Baker
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

“This charming middle grade book is a lovely nod to All Creatures Great & Small, but with a young, plucky protagonist. When Ava goes to stay with her extended family on their Yorkshire farm, she quickly learns the high's and the low's of country life. Eager to fit in and shed her big city persona, she rolls up her sleeves to help. Along the... Read more

Emma Memma: How Are You?

Emma Memma

By: Emma Memma
Narrated by: Emma Memma
Length: 5 minutes

Join Emma Memma for a magical story time as she says hello to the world. Includes Auslan signs illustrated and consulted by Deaf artists.

Emma Memma invites you into her world to meet her mates. Come along and wave hello to Waffles the Wombat, Elvin Melvin and many more fun friends. Read more

THE TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA

By: Judith Kerr
Narrated by: Geraldine McEwan
Length: 9 minutes

READ BY GERALDINE MCEWAN. The classic picture book story of Sophie and her extraordinary teatime guest has been loved by millions of children since it was first published more than fifty years ago. Now an award-winning animation! The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly... Read more

Wolf Road

The bestselling animal adventure from TV's Alice Roberts

By: Alice Roberts
Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Discover the history of our lifetime through one girl's adventure, in the epic new children's novel from bestselling author and broadcaster, Professor Alice Roberts.

'A fine storyteller' Philip Pullman

‘A wonderful book – exciting, fascinating, gripping, beautifully written’ Anthony McGowan

'Highly atmospheric, this impressive story asks questions... Read more

No Place Like Home

By: James Bird
Narrated by: Calvin Joyal
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren't guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don't welcome overnight stays. Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle and a new... Read more

Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion

A True Story

By: Dave Eggers
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 9 minutes

Make way for history as only Dave Eggers could stage it. It all started when John “Minnie” Moore built a mine in Idaho and sold it to Englishman Henry Miller. Then Henry married a local lass named Annie and built her a mansion, hence the “Millers’ Minnie Moore Mine Mansion.” After Henry died and Annie was hoodwinked—losing all but the... Read more

Scaredy Bath

By: Zoë Foster Blake
Narrated by: Zoë Foster Blake
Length: 4 minutes

Bath-time is fun! There's the bubbles, the bath toys and lots of splashing of course. But have you ever wondered what it's like for the bath?

Scaredy Bath does not like bath time . . . the piping hot water, the gooey muck and especially not the small boisterous grubby ones that shout and splash and make Scaredy all mucky! What's a bath to do?... Read more

Frindle

By: Andrew Clements
Narrated by: Keith Nobbs
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of language that will have readers inventing their own words—now available in a deluxe paperback edition!

Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school--and he's always had plenty of great... Read more

Diary of a Big Bad Wolf

Your favourite fairytales from a hilarious new point of view!

By: Ben Miller
Narrated by: Ben Miller
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Your favourite fairytales from a BIG, BAD point of view! The instant bestseller from Ben Miller – out now! 

The big, bad wolf hasn’t had a great winter. He's cold, lonely and hungry . . . But things are about to change – he’s going to take the Fairytale Woods by STORM.

But while he knows he’s BIG and BAD, no one else seems to be scared of him,... Read more

The Skull

A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen
Narrated by: Fairuza Balk & Jon Klassen
Length: 22 minutes

Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Young Listeners

In a big abandoned house on a barren hill lives a skull. A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from terrible danger and run away, and when she finds herself lost in the dark forest, the lonely house beckons. Her host, the skull, is afraid of something too, something that comes every night. Can... Read more

Friday Barnes 1: Girl Detective

The bestselling detective series

Friday Barnes: Book #1

By: R.A. Spratt
Narrated by: R.A. Spratt
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Imagine if Sherlock Holmes was an eleven-year-old girl!

When girl detective Friday Barnes solves a bank robbery she uses the reward money to send herself to the most exclusive boarding school in the country, Highcrest Academy.

On arrival, Friday is shocked to discover the respectable school is actually a hotbed of crime. She's soon... Read more

Tweet

By: Morris Gleitzman
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Birds.

Lots of birds.

The people of the world are puzzled. Their feathered friends are trying to tell them something, and they're not sure what it is.

Then a boy and his pet budgie discover the secret.

Join Jay and Clyde, and their friends Maxine and Dora, on an exciting, funny, risky journey to save their families.

And every other family too. Read more

Alice-Miranda in the Outback

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Alice-Miranda

By: Jacqueline Harvey
Narrated by: Jacqueline Harvey
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Alice-Miranda and her friends are off to the Australian Outback! They're going to help an old family friend who's found himself short staffed during cattle mustering season. The landscape is like nothing else - wide open and dusty red as far as the eye can see. It's also full of quirky characters, like eccentric opal miner Sprocket McGinty and... Read more

Genesis Begins Again

By: Alicia D. Williams
Narrated by: Alicia D. Williams
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

“Reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” —The New York Times

“One of the best books I have ever read…will live in the hearts of readers for the rest of their lives.” —Colby Sharp, founder of Nerdy Book Club

“An emotional, painful, yet still hopeful adolescent journey…one that needed telling.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“I really... Read more

Princess Academy - Abridged

The Princess Academy Series: Book #1

By: Shannon Hale
Narrated by: Laura Credidio & a full cast
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king's ministers set up an... Read more

The World’s Worst Teachers

By: David Walliams
Narrated by: David Walliams, Helen McCrory, Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Emma Fryer, James Goode, Adjoa Andoh & Paul Panting
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Millions of young readers have loved the World’s Worst Children tales – now they will revel in this delightfully dreadful collection of the most gruesome grown-ups ever: The World’s Worst Teachers. Think your teachers are bad? Wait till you meet this lot. These ten tales of the world’s most splendidly sinister teachers will... Read more