Whether for quieting down before bedtime a chapter at a time, or binge-listening on summertime road trips, these four childhood classics are sure to entertain the whole family.
Grimm’s Fairy Tales (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.79 or 1 Audible credit)
Read by a cast of award-winning narrators, this collection contains some of the most timeless and enchanting folk and fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
The Brothers Grimm collected the original fairy tales that Americans are most familiar with today. Lyrically translated and beautifully narrated by an all-star cast, these 21 tales are selected from The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales and presented just as Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm originally set them down: bold, primal, just frightening enough, and endlessly engaging. Stories include:
“Rapunzel”, read by Katherine Kellgren
“Cinderella”, read by January LaVoy
“Little Red-Cap”, read by Simon Vance
“Little Briar-Rose”, read by Grover Gardner
“Little Snow-White”, read by Kate Rudd
“Rumpelstiltskin”, read by Jim Dale
“The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces”, read by Alfred Molina
“A Riddling Tale”, read by Janis Ian
“The Twelve Brothers”, read by Graeme Malcolm
“The White Snake”, read by Scott Brick
“The Elves”, read by Bahni Turpin
“The Six Swans”, read by Davina Porter
“The Twelve Huntsmen”, read by Dion Graham
“The Goose-Girl”, read by Edoardo Ballerini
“Sweet Porridge”, read by Jayne Entwistle
“The Golden Goose”, read by Luke Daniels
“Eve’s Various Children”, read by Roy Dotrice
“Snow-White and Rose-Red”, read by Julia Whelan
“The Frog-King, or Iron Henry”, read by Kirby Heyborne
“The Sea-Hare”, read by Mark Bramhall
“Hansel and Gretel”, read by Robin Miles
3 hours, 39 minutes.
Peter Pan (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.95 or 1 Audible credit)
There are few characters in literature more iconic than J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. Originally introduced in 1902 in another Barrie novel (The Little White Bird), Peter’s story was expanded as a standalone novel in 1911 and since then has been memorably adapted for the movies, for television, and for stage.
Now, actress Lily Collins (The Blind Side, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones) brings new, youthful energy to Peter’s magical adventures – her performance capturing the innocence and wonder of Barrie’s original tale. Through Collins’ voice you’ll rediscover your favorite characters: Captain Hook, the Darlings, Tinker Bell, The Lost Boys, and a tick-tocking crocodile. And you’ll fly along with Peter through Neverland – a place full of magic and adventure; a place where no one gets old.
4 hours, 51 minutes.
Mary Poppins: The Mary Poppins Series, Book 1 (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.95 or 1 Audible credit)
Here is the timeless story of Mary Poppins, the world’s favorite nanny, and her magical adventures with the Banks family.
Mary Poppins is like no other nanny the Banks children have ever seen. It all starts when their new nanny is blown by the east wind onto the doorstep of the Banks house, carrying a parrot-headed umbrella and a magic carpetbag. She becomes a most unusual nanny to Jane, Michael, and the twins. Who else but Mary Poppins can slide up banisters, pull an entire armchair out of an empty carpetbag, and make a dose of medicine taste like delicious lime-juice cordial? A day with Mary Poppins is a day of magic and make-believe come to life!
3 hours, 50 minutes.
Winnie the Pooh (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $5.95 or 1 Audible credit)
Come with us to an Enchanted Place, a forest where Winnie-the-Pooh lived with Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, Kanga, and Little Roo. The stories are about Christopher Robin and these good companions having wonderful times getting in and out of trouble. It is all very exciting and, really, quite thrilling no matter how young or old you may be. It is painful to try and imagine what the world would be like without them.
Blackstone Audiobooks presents, from the unabridged collection A.A. Milne’s Pooh Classics, the 10 stories of Winnie-the-Pooh performed by Peter Dennis. This is the only reading of these immortal stories authorized by A.A. Milne’s son, Christopher Robin, who wrote, “Peter Dennis has made himself Pooh’s Ambassador Extraordinare and no bear has ever had a more devoted friend. So if you want to meet the real Pooh, the bear I knew, the bear my father wrote about, listen to Peter.”
This collection includes the chapters:
In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin
In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place
In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle
In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One
In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump
In Which Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents
In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath
In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole
In Which Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water
In Which Christopher Robin Gives a Pooh Party, and We Say Goodbye
2 hours, 46 minutes.
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