Ellen Tebbits - Beverley Cleary - Audio Book

Ellen Tebbits - Beverley Cleary : Ellen Tebbits is convinced she'll die of embarrassment if any of the girls at school discover her secret. But then she meets Austine Allen, a new girl in class who's hiding the very same secret, instantly, the two become best friends. They do everything together, from clapping erasers to riding horses.

Ellen quickly learns that embarrassing secrets and pesky troublemakers like Otis Spofford aren't so bad when you have someone special to stick up for you. But then Ellen does something terrible that makes Austine stop speaking to her. Will she ever be able to prove how sorry she is?

This refreshing book nicely portrays what happens in a friendship between two young girls.
Although written in 1951, this book is still actual. Friendship, with its up and down, can survive almost everything as long as its a true one. And this story is about true friendship. I think that lots of children will recognize themselve.

Coriander, I - Sally Gardner - Audio Book

Coriander, I - Sally Gardner : I am Coriander Hobie. I was born in the year of Our Lord 1643, the only child of Thomas and Eleanor Hobie, in our great house on the River Thames in London. Of my early years I remember only happiness. That was before I knew this world had such evil in it, and that my fate was to be locked up in a chest and left to die.

This is my story. This is my life. I looked back into the bedchamber. The floor had become a sea and the bed a ship, seen from a great distance. I could hear voices calling me from Jar away. It was an image that came to haunt me, and I have often wondered what would have happened if I had done as I was told and left the silver shoes alone.

Oh yes ! If we only did as we were told do you think we would be where we are now?

Andersen's Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen - Audio Book

Andersen's Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen : The world of Hans Christian Andersen is seen through the eyes of children.

There is the every-day wonder of an ugly duckling being transformed into a swan; the puf fed-up Emperor being fooled by his own importance; the tender tragedy of a little match girl; the upright honesty of John rewarded by his travelling companion. By bringing true feelings to these stories, Andersen's tales have become part of universal folklore.

This type of audio book is the one that we can listen to endlessly.

Farmer Giles of Ham - J. R. R. Tolkien - Audio Book

Farmer Giles of Ham - J. R. R. Tolkien : Farmer Giles of Ham is one of Tolkien’s most popular stories, full of wit and humour, set in the days when giants and dragons walked the earth. He did not look like a hero. He was fat and red-bearded and enjoyed a slow, comfortable life.

Then one day a rather deaf and short-sighted giant blundered on to his land. More by luck than skill, Farmer Giles managed to scare him away. The people of the village cheered: Farmer Giles was a hero.

A beautiful story which will please not only children but adults too.

The Stupidest Angel - Christopher Moore Audio Book

The Stupidest Angel - Christopher Moore : It was the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit.

But not everybody is feeling the joy. Little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a holiday miracle. No, he's not on his deathbed. But Josh is sure that he saw Santa take a shovel to the head, and now the seven-year-old has only one prayer: Please, Santa, come back from the dead.

Christopher Moore is really unbeatable in his way. Listening to this audio book it is to be certain to have spent some hours laughing wholeheartedly..

Leon and the Spitting Image - Allen Kurzweil - Audio Book

Leon and the Spitting Image - Allen Kurzweil : Leon and the Spitting Image is about a hotel full of animals. It's about an evil ice maker. It's about glass eyeballs and human catapults.
It's about really old panty hose and Possibly Fake Hair.

But mostly it's about Leon Zeisel and his epic quest to survive fourth grade. What's stopping him? Two things. First, there's Miss Hagmeyer. She's a supernaturally strict teacher with ears that resemble giant rotting mushrooms. And then there is Leon's archenemy, Lumpkin the Pumpkin, a human tank with a deadly dodgeball throw known to all as the sidewinder.

If you want to go back to your childhood and revive your memories this audio book is exactly for you.

Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - Audio Book

Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll : Alice is back in her room, stroking her cats - but not for long. Slipping through the Looking-Glass she meets another wild collection of fantasy characters including the Red and White Kings and Queens, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and is entertained by the poems Jabberwocky and The Walrus and the Carpenter.

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There the sequel to Alice in Wonderland
- is in some ways more ambitious and more consciously organized than its predecessor. Unlike most sequels, it is at least as good as the original work. As the title suggests, the fantasy world involves reversal or inversion through reflection, and also includes a more-or-less possible game of chess in which the characters themselves are players. Alice does not dream her way into the story, but instead gains access through the power of her imagination, melting, through the looking glass into that world which is always at least partly visible in it.

Carroll introduces in this second story a character more sympathetic than any in 'Wonderland' and it is, as one listen to this audio book, as full of fantasy as in Alice in Wonderland. Just give it a try.

Don't Cook Cinderella - Francesca Simon - Audio Book

Don't Cook Cinderella - Francesca Simon : Imagine the Chaos-

Fairytale goodies and baddies at school together! Miss Good Fairy is teaching Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Snow White and their classmates to read and write, while Miss Bad Fairy is urging her evil pupils to gobble them all up.

But Wicked Witch, Troll, Big Bad Wolf, the Ugly Sisters and the rest are in for a shock.

As hilarious as Horrid Henry!

Francesca Simon really knows how to write a story! And, in plus, when Simon Russell Beale the narrator of this audio book starts to narrate, or better to "play" it, then you don't need any therapy !

Grimms' Fairy Tales - The Brothers Grimm - Audio Book

Grimms' Fairy Tales - The Brothers Grimm :It is a magical world which we must all inhabit at one time in our lives and which are as important in this computer age as ever before.

The Brothers Grimm conjure up a world of fantasy, hope and good fortune where the princess meets and marries the right prince.

To read it its a real pleasure but when you listen to this audio book its more than that : it's a marvel !