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?

For the 2 year old

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Kipper - get the collections. They last longer.

Also Night Garden has a CD of songs/ stories.

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The Greek Myths are fantastic. DD (8) has been listening to them for years.

The Greek myths - we had them, I really enjoyed them.
I love the audiobooks with the kids. If I am honest dd'd taste has all ways been more mystery, buuut, I have been able to indulge in my more classic taste of literature.
I would say ds has enjoyed Stig of the dumps/the narnia series the most. Were dd enjoyed the Nancy Drew stuff more.
My fav ever kids audio books has to be the fire eaters by David Almond, which I would say is for ten yr olds.

shoot Ididn't mean that,
I meant,
I was able to buy the more old fashioned/classics sort of stuff ie wind and the willows.

BTW, if you have an ipod and you want to rip the audio CDs but get them to show in iTunes under the audiobook menu, there's instructions here

Ladies,
where do you buy the audio books?
I've seen great lists in this thread, but I remember looking around in a book shop (rather large Waterstones in London) and haven't seen half of them. I remember looking on Amazon a while back and the selection didin't strike me as particularly brilliant either.
So any tips where to get the CDs would be appreciated!!

For adult audio books I shop at Audible but it doesn't seem that good (or well priced) for children's books.

So far my Audio CD collection for the kids has come from free CDs on magazines and gifts. Am going to work my way through this list though and will probably use Google extensively to find them

Oh - you might find that a book shop may not be the best place to look. I'm sure I've seen audio books in bargain bins at motorway service station shops - HMV or equivalent may be better too as that's where we usually get audio CDs for FIL's presents.

Anyone mention Princess Mirror-belle stories? Should be suitable for both DDs.

oh dear this is going to cost a fortune...

The book people did a set recently of 12 children's classics. 36 hours altogether, for £19.99.

They include a few on buzzcock's list:

Anne of green gables
Black Beauty
Little women
A little Princess
Wizard of Oz
Wind in the willows.

and some others I forget now.

We have been working through them rather enjoyably on long car journeys, with 8yo and 6yo dd (4yo finds them too complex).
They are slightly abridged. I like the unabridged versions too - develops concentration, I feel (aka shuts them up in the car for longer).

little house on the prairie and assorted other books in series

it is from audio book bargains iirc

we listen to a LOT of audio books and this is the best by far

(for younger kids I find the julia donaldon ones quite good too)

btw completely unabridged and FINE for even nearly 3 yo dd1 but still enjoyable for me after 56887 listenings

oooh yes I would love little house on prairie

Pippi Longstocking stories read by Maureen Lipman. So well done.

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was it the maggie o farrell one?

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oh yes!

I havent read it yet tbh

I thought it would be funny

Enid, another vote for the enid blyton FF and SS, mine (DS aged 8 and DD 7) also enjoyed the naughtiest girl in the school audio books,
Book people does great box sets (in a lovely round tin) we have roald dahl and alex rider. They also do lemony snicket.

Waterstones have a reasonable selection and they also often have then on 3 for 2.
We have bought the northern lights trilogy for this summer each book about 2 hours long I think.

Journey to the River Sea had them gripped last summer for 3 hours on one journey, (we really enjoyed it as well....looking to get another eva ibbotson this year)

We have a couple of jacquelene wilson which they like.
BBC ones often good, DC enjoyed Toms Midnight Garden
And Michael Morpurgo - Adophus Tips a big favourite

We went all the way to Scotland and back with Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter.

And to Cornwall and back with David Tennant reading the Dragon books by Cressida Cowell. Both absolutely fabulous and grown ups will enjoy them too. Which is more than I can say for the Enid Blytons!

And we had a brilliant one I've just remembered called Little Darlings, by Sam Llwellyn. Very surreal, but incredibly funny. I must dig it out for us to hear again!

I either get them of the book people, or from the library. I have brought them from waterstones too.
My gran always gave my kids WHSmith tokens for christmas, and if you ask at the CD counter they can get anything that has been recorded. It takes a while, but you get it. I also have swapped with my cousin in the past too.
My parents have always been big on audio books, (my dad is a long distance lorry driver) and my mam has a subscription to an audio version of the book people, she gets the kids them from there,(with the understanding they are passed to my neice). Funny thing is, my dad is driving to Bruge as we speak, and is taking ds's beloved Stig of the dump.