Audible recommendations that our whole family will like?

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One child aged six (quite a grown up six), one child age eight. Any suggestions of books that we will we all like? Not just the children, but books DH and I will enjoy listening to with them?

Our children have very wide tastes - anything from Bunny vs Monkey to Judy Blume (Children’s, rather than YA). We’ve all ready Harry Potter up to where it’s appropriate for the six year old. (But I’m generally not too fussed about fantasy.)

We want the Audibles for long car journeys. And would absolutely love any suggestions!

*read not ready!

We're currently listening to Kid Normal (Greg James), and some of the David Walliams books have been a big hit such as Billionaire Boy and Gangsta Granny. How about some of the classics, like Journey to the Centre of the Earth, The Secret Garden, Swiss Family Robinson?

Roald Dahl have been huge hits too as you'd expect, as have Diary of a Wimpy Kid and some of the Percy Jacksons. Oh and my youngest (aged 9) has LOVED Ben Miller's books which I bet are great to listen to. She really loved How I Became A Dog Called Midnight, and The Boy Who Made the World Disappear.

Hope that helps!

These are so great, thank you! We haven’t read any Ben Miller! We have read the Secret Garden but not Journey to the Centre of the Earth or the Swiss Family Robinson. Will definitely download those!

David Walliams rubs me up the wrong way, so I’ll save those for library books the kids can read to themselves rather than audibles for all 🤣

The Just William audiobooks have been a hit here.

Swallows and Amazons was a surprise hit, plus the Narnia books.

Mine used to love The Railway Children, a BBC acted one. On Audible I can see that there is a new BBC dramatised E. Nesbit compilation to be released in July, which would keep you going for quite a bit.

DS also liked David Baddiel's children's books.

Not books, but your DC are probably nearly old enough for Cabin Pressure, which is EXCELLENT. However there is a slight danger of laughing so much that the driver can't see properly.

They also enjoyed the Mr Gum books by Andy Stanton, I quite liked them but I needed a good break between each book as Andy Stanton narrates them himself VERY enthusiastically.

Oh I used to LOVE these when I was young! Downloading now!

Great suggestions!!!!

The Danger Gang and The Creakers both by Tom Fletcher.

My 9 year old listens to Just William almost every night. Martin Jarvis’ narration is so good and there are loads and loads of books. I had them on CD about a hundred years ago so glad to listen to them again.

We’ve also enjoyed the Podkin One Ear books, all of Harry Potter (except last one for youngest), The Hobbit (and the whole LOTR trilogy for the eldest - read by Andy Serkis).

We all love Wimpy Kid. I would recommend them all. Also The Imagination Box. Anything by Matt Haig. How to train your dragon

Who let the gods out by maz evens. Brilliantly funny. My 8yo loves it and so do I! Nothing better than just William (it's on bbc sounds at the moment). Alan Bennett reading Winnie the Pooh is hard to beat as well.

We’ve enjoyed listening to the Adventure on Trains books on long car journeys - our kids are a similar age to yours. They are a bit like a child-friendly Agatha Christie mystery, with a kid solving the mystery rather than Poirot ;).

this is the first one: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07XY1N4WN/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell, read by Lovely David.

Trying to remember how old our boys were when we got into Cabin Pressure. It was before the final episodes, so probably 12/13 and 9/10 - and they were introduced to it by their cousins who are a couple of years younger than that. Youngest cousin was mildly bemused though, so 8 is probably the lower end.

I see Just William has already been suggested by @AntarcticTern

That gets my vote too

@parrotonmyshoulder, too. Great advice.

And Cabin Pressure is possibly my favourite ever series 😀

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Second How to Train your Dragon.

Was also going to recommend Alan Bennett's Pooh books. Absolutely hilarious!

Some of the Narnia books are read brilliantly - Magician's Nephew by Kenneth Branagh, Silver Chair by Jeremy Northam and Last Battle by Patrick Stewart being stand outs in the set for me. Ironic really, as apart from the first, these are my least favourite books of the series to read!

Many Dahl recordings are excellent- the Wonka set being the best narrated (by Douglas Hodge) IMO.