Audiobooks

Our family has been using Audible since 2006, and subscribers since 2011; we have quite a stash of audiobooks!  We have used Librivox occasionally, but I find that the quality and ease of use keeps me coming back to Audible.

Below are our favorites, based on story and narrator (narrator in parentheses).  I’ve listed them (roughly) in order of maturity.

If you are using Audible credits, make sure to look for the biggest collection of a series you can find.

By Arnold Lobel

Frog and Toad are Friends (Arnold Lobel)
Frog and Toad Together (Arnold Lobel)
Days with Frog and Toad (Arnold Lobel)
Frog and Toad All Year (Arnold Lobel)
The Arnold Lobel Audio Collection (Mark Linn-Baker)
Mouse Tales (Arnold Lobel)
Fables (Mark Linn-Baker)

By Ruth Stiles Gannett

My Father’s Dragon series (Robert Sevra)

By Betty MacDonald

Mrs Piggle Wiggle (Karen White)
Mrs Piggle Wiggle’s Farm (Karen White)
(There is also Happy Birthday Mrs Piggle Wiggle and Mrs Piggle Wiggle’s Magic, but those got a bit weird.)

By Astrid Lindgren

Pippi Longstocking (Christina Moore)

By Beverly Cleary

The Ralph S Mouse Audio Collection (B.D. Wong)
The Henry Huggins Audio Collection (Neil Patrick Harris, etc)
The Ramona Quimby Audio Collection (Stockard Channing)
The Beverly Cleary Audio Collection (Andrea Martin, etc)

By Mary Pope Osborne

Magic Tree House Collections series (Mary Pope Osborne)(*look for the collections of 8 books)
Magic Tree House Merlin Missions series (Mary Pope Osborne) (*look for the collections of 8 books)

By L. Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Anne Hathaway)

By Cressida Cowell

How to Train Your Dragon series (David Tennant)

By Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl Audio Collection (Roald Dahl)
Matilda (Kate Winslet)
The BFG (David Walliams)

By Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Little Princess (Virginia Leishman)

By Lewis Carroll

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Scarlet Johansson)

By S.D. Smith

The Green Ember series (Joel Clarkson)

By Andrew Lang

The Blue Fairy Book (Angele Masters)

By Elizabeth Enright

The Melendy Family series (Pamela Dillman)

By Jeanne Birdsall

The Penderwicks series (Susan Deneker)

By J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings series, including The Hobbit (Rob Inglis)