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Lots of kids are out of school right now and I’ve been running across so many awesome things to do with them! Now, if only there was more time and some organization to this! I’ll start compiling a list here and keep it up to date with what I find. Wow! An upside to this odd time is that some of the big and little companies are throwing in their items for free!!
Audible.com
Right now, through Audible.com, kids may listen to a nice selection of stories for free. Audible states that “For as long as schools are closed, we’re open.” You may use a desktop, laptop, phone, or tablet! I tried it out and they don’t even make you create an account. They even offer differing languages – English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese!
Just go to Audible.com, click “Start Listening, then you may easily choose the age range you’re looking for or search for a book, then play.
Categories include:
- Littlest Listeners
- Winnie the Pooh
- Story Party: The Complete Collection
- Timeless Tales of Beatrix Potter
- The House at Pooh Corner
- The Wheels on the Bus and Other Children’s Songs: 22 Fun Songs!
- ABC: Learn Your Alphabet with Songs
- Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star: Bedtime Songs and Lullabies
- The Lion and the Mouse
- The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and Other Nonsense Rhymes
- The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
- The Cookie Girl
- When Turtles Grew Feathers
- Stone Soup
- Rastamouse
- 123: Learn to Count with Songs and Rhymes
- Tio Conejo (Uncle Rabbit) and other Latin American Trickster Tales
- Freddy the Teddy’s Grand Canyon Adventure
- Itsy-Bitsy Spider’s Heroic Climb and Others Stories
- The Animals Could Talk
- The First Music
- Cockroach Party
- Just So Stories
- Rastamouse presents For Real FM
- Pat-a-Cake
- The Ugly Duckling Collection
- Fat Cat and Friends
- Just So Stories
- The Fox and the Squirrel
- The Foolish Crow
- Fish Friends Three
- Kaka and the Mouse
- Kutti and the Mouse
- Tak-Tak
- The Boy Who Drew Cats
- Just So Stories
- A Day in a Forested Wetland
- Elementary
- Anne of Green Gables
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (read by Scarlett Johansson)
- The Mystwick School of Musicraft
- Wishes and Wellingtons
- Riley Mack and the Other Known Troublemakers
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- The Terrible Two
- Quest for the Diamond Sword
- The Golden Goblet
- The Birchbark House
- The Children’s Homer
- Prentice Alvin
- Mission Unstoppable
- Rikki Tikki Tavi
- Arlo Finch in the Vally of Fire
- Needs a New Name: Stella Bats, Book 1
- The Orphan of Ellis Island
- Panchatantra
- A Pain in the Pigza
- TheMerry Adventures of Robin Hood
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- Mousenet
- The Princess Test
- Hurt Go Happy
- The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
- The River of Wind
- The Swiss Family Robinson
- The First Collier
- Shelter Dogs
- Five Children and It
- The Secret Garden
- Great Poems for Children
- The Halloween Tree (Dramatized)
- Morning Girl
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep
- The Fairy’s Mistake
- The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life
- The Lost Prince
- Bambi
- For Biddie’s Sake
- The Wind in the Willows
- The Fairy’s Return
- Marie Curie
- Off and Running
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- The Foolish Lion
- Isaac Newton
- Sigmund Freud
- Saving Lilly
- Tween
- Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons
- The Reluctant Dragon
- The Spies that Bind
- White Fang
- Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare
- Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja
- A Little History of the World
- The Witch of Duva
- Wizard for Hire
- Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book
- Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry
- The Claw
- Dreadnought
- Little Knife
- River Secret
- 90 Miles to Havana
- A Summer to Die
- The Enchanted Castle
- Flight of the Dragon Kyn
- Stepping on the Cracks
- A Tale of Light and Shadow: Book 1
- The Witchcraft of Salem Village
- The Black Dog Mystery
- Crash Landing
- Book of a Thousand Days
- The Coming of Hoola
- Truesight
- Robinson Crusoe
- Angel De La Luna
- Titanic: The Long Night
- The Empty Mirror
- Cinderellis and the Glass Hill
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- A Posse of Princesses
- The Open Boat and Other Stories
- Shoebag
- Space Boy
- The Blue Herring Mystery
- The Mystery of the Metty Magician
- The Mystery of the Vanished Victim
- Teen
- The Mystery of Alice
- The Screwtape Letters
- Hollow City
- Library of Souls
- Surprised by Joy
- The Liar’s Daughter
- The Bone Witch
- A Grief Observed
- In Praise of Difficult Women
- A Little History of the World
- Talon
- The Complete Stories
- The Unexpected Everything
- Squint
- Soldier
- Inferno
- Rogue
- The Near Witch
- Becoming Fluent
- Who Done it?
- The Last Boy and Girl in the World
- My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life
- Shade’s Children
- A Step by Step Guide to a Smarter Memory
- A Way in the World
- Belles
- All Eyes on Us
- Spanish: Proven Techniquest to Learn and Speak Spanish
- Ties That Bind, Ties that Break
- Summer State of Mind
- American Shaolin
- Legion
- Ask Me No Questions
- Rad American Women A-Z
- A Children’s History of India
- The Most Dangerous Game
- Night Sky
- Wild Sky
- Dangerous Destiny
- Dark Dude
- Impossible Music
- The Three Documents That Make America
- The Peaceful Vally Crime Wave
- Born Confused
- Nothing to Lose
- An Introduction to Indian Philosophy
- Huysman’s Pets
- The Lurking Fear, and Other Stories
- Fade to Black
- French in Minutes
- Literary Classics
- Brave New World
- The Call of the Wild performed by Pablo Schreiber
- Frankenstein
- Jane Eyre
- Atlas Shrugged
- Roots
- My Antonia
- The Call of the Wild
- Moby Dick
- The Jungle Book I & II
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Canterbury Tales
- Les Miserables
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
- Paradise Lost
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Persuasion
- Wuthering Heights
- The Age of Innocence
- Four Classic Horror Stories
- The Metamorphosis
- The Scarlet Letter
- Pride & Prejudice
- The Jungle
- The Tempest
- Ethan Frome
- Hamlet (Dramatized)
- Folk & Fairy Tales for All
- Grimm’s Fairy Stories
- Irish Fairy Tales
- Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
- Japanese Fairy Tales
- The Too-Clever Fox
- Myths That Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Classic Myths of All Times for Young People
- English Fairy Tales
- Fifty Famous Fairy Tales
- Indian Fairy Tales
- Anansi and the Pot of Beans
- Anansi and the Tug o’ War
- Audrey Hepburn’s Enchanted Tales
- Why Koala Has a Stumpy Tail
- Cinderella and Other Stories
- The Little Mermaid and other Stories
- Aesop’s Fables, Vol. 1
- The Emperor’s New Clothes and Other Fairy Tales
- Aladin and Other Stories
- How Tiger Got His Stripes
- Anansi Time
- Aesop’s Fables, Vol. 2
- Anansi Goes to Lunch
- Anansi and Turtle Go to Dinner
- Why Spider Has a Thin Waist
- Multicultural Tales to Tell
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Other Languages
- English
- France
- Germany
- Spanish
- Italian
- Japanese
