Recommended Audio Books for dds aged 8 and 5 (and 2 but she doesnt count) that we can listen to in the car.

[Enid]

The Worst Witch and Puffin Stories for 8 year olds are very popular. We have the Lion Witch and Wardrobe lined up plus Harry Potter. Any more recommendations?

The Giggler Treatment by Roddy Doyle. The narrator is brilliant, it's a really funny story, and it's all about poo - what more could an 8 and 5 year old want?!!

Don't Cook Cinderella and You're a Bad Man Mr Gump have my kids in stitches in the back (they are not too bad for adults either)

DD likes stella the star fairy and ruby the red fairy etc as well.

winnie the pooh with Judi Dench, Stephen Fry, Jane Horrocks etc is brilliant. I could listen to it all day, and do.

finn family moomintroll

The Emily Windsnap books are fun.

Just William

My dd loves it and it's entertaining for the adults too!

There's some good reductions at the moment if you click here

my boys age 5 love the charlie and lola stories on cd

Lemony Snicket series is good and not to irritating to the adult ear. My two boys loved a story called Fairy Dust but can't remember the author.

Michael Morpurgo books are also available.

Gwyneth Rees- Fairy Dust

The whole Roald Dahl collection is brilliant (esp with the adults!) for our similar aged children. Read by Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, June Whitfield etc. The CDs are often at the Book people for not very much.

any recs for a 2ish year old? i'm going to drive the car into a wall if i have to hear about Lola's poxy wobbly tooth one more time... 'turn the page'.

aitch - kipper and the tiger who came to tea were popular when mine were 2 or 3. Of course they are both terribly short so drive you bonkers after about the 10th time

know what you mean about lola - its the "snow is my favourite and my best" one that is close to having me sectioned

WE got a box set of all the Roald Dahl stories that we use on long journeys...they're great

wheeeeeee! [sound of lola et al sledging]

MUST get tiger who came to tea, there's a theatre version i want to take dd to. thanks. no bloody kipper, isn't that martin clunes?

Mr Men ones are quite good for 2 year olds. I hate, hate hate reading them, but find them more bearable on tape perhaps because your mind can wander. All my DC have loved them which alongside Thomas the Tank, has baffled me for over 6 years now.

the kipper ones I have are read by dawn french who is quite bearable

Jacqueline Wilson always goes down well

The Borrowers,
The whole Narnia Series,
Stig of the Dump,
Just William,
Milly Molly Mandy,
Pippi Long Stocking,
Charlottes Web,
Fudge/superfudge.
Roald dahl books,
My kids have a four yr age gap, which due to ds global development delay is more like 6 yrs. When dd was 9 we started listening to these in the car, to promote dd's reading (which worked by the way) and these stories went down well with both of them.

Anne of Green gables series
The little House on the Prairie series.
The secret Garden,
Little Women series,
Heidi
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Swiss Family Robinson
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Pollyanna
Wind in the Willows
I can hear you thinking these are a little old for my 5 yr old, but truly they are not, if ds enjoyed and understood them (at about the equivalant age of about 3/4) then any one would enjoy them.
These would cost you a fourtune, so rent them from the library.
I would always go for UNABRIDGED.

Had lots of success with BBC classics - such as Ballet Shoes, Toms Midnight Garden, Failed with Wind in the Willows tho' - too difficult to tell the voices apart. Other successes have been Enid Blyton - Secret Seven and Famous Five - our library has a great stock

we did Enid Blyton, the bummer was we have most of these on tape, and we changed car, which has a cd player bummer.

Thanks everyone.

Buzzcocks thats a great list. Am reserving them as we speak.

I think I got a bit carried away with my list.

My Naughty Little Sister by Dorothy Edwards.

6y DD likes her Horrid Henry audiobook