I know I’ve done a Top Ten Audio Books before but this list has a few differences because Lydia and I have discovered AUDIO PICTURE BOOKS! At our library, we have little plastic bags with a picture book AND the audio CD. It’s the type with a tone or sound that cues you to turn the page. Plus, they are usually dramatized with some background music and sound effects. They are usually only 5-15 minutes long but we LOVE them! Lydia loves listening to them in the car and turning the page all by herself.
So, this is my list of TOP TEN AUDIO PICTURE BOOKS (and maybe a few regular audio books, too):
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1. Imogene’s Antlers by David Small
This is the funniest book ever. Imogene wakes up to find that she has sprouted antlers overnight. She doesn’t seem to mind, but everyone around her does. The actor reading the story is hilarious, the sound effects are great. Lydia listened to this about 50 times so I bought it as a Christmas present. She’s disappointed because I can’t read it as well as the audio!
2. Wolfby Becky Bloom
This is a funny account of a group of farm animals who are unimpressed by a big bad wolf—because he can’t read. The wolf soon learns to read and they become the best of friends. Lydia loved this one and of course, it’s a great “you should read” book!
3. Hedgie’s Surprise by Jan Brett
I love the illustrations in this book—the pictures are set into a beautiful needlework pattern. The story is actually a Scandinavian folk-tale so the needlework print just adds to that feel. It’s a cute fable about a hedgehog and a hen who play a trick on a greedy little tomten (which is like a little rumplestiltskin-type elf).
4. Raggedy Ann Stories by Johnny Gruelle
This is a typical audio book–no picture book to go with this one. But we listened to it at least two times all the way through. Lydia and I both loved these. They are sweet, simple, short and they are all very moral. I’m on a mission now to find some old Raggedy Ann books.
5. Charlotte’s Web by EB White
I honestly think I only watched the Charlotte’s Web movie when I was a kid. Or maybe one of my teachers read it to me in school. Anyway, I didn’t remember the whole story. So, I loved listening to it again. This version was read by the author– he didn’t do a lot of voices. This made Lydia slightly less interested in it. But I loved it because I got to hear exactly how EB White wanted it to sound.
6. NIrV Little Kids Adventure Audio Bible
I wrote a whole post on this book at Impress Your Kids. It is a surprisingly good version of the Bible. And long, too.
7. Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming
This is the one we have in the car right now. It’s another picture book with CD. It’s just a funny rhythmical book about a group of bunnies who continually steal the farmer’s veggies. The fun part is the “muncha, muncha, muncha” refrain. Every time we get into the car and she sees the book by her carseat, Lydia has to yell it out for us to hear!
8. Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne
This is on the same level as the Raggedy Ann stories–they are short and wholesome. Plus they are incredibly fun! This is the first of the Winnie the Pooh books so you get some background on the bear’s name. Did you know his real name is Edward Bear?
9. The Journey by Sarah Stewart
A beautiful picture book with an endearing story. Hannah, an Amish girl spends her birthday week seeing the sights of Chicago. She is mesmerized and falls in love with the city. Yet, there is something about her home she can’t seem to get out of her head. This audio version is amazing because like the picture book, it gives you time to look at the pictures. There are several pages with no words (including the front and back covers) but the CD is filled with music and sound effects to enhance the illustrations. This is one of my favorites.
10. I couldn’t think of 10. Do you have one to add?
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Kathy Hill says
I always loved any of the Numeroff books from the If You Give a Mouse A Cookie series. They are fun to listen too.
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Adventure Mom Janna says
Great List! I need to check into those at our library too.
We listened to the doll house one summer. It’s about 2 doll houses that come to life while no one is looking. It’s several hours though.
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I loved those books and tapes when I was a kid! Do they have Norma Jean Jumping Bean? Or Frog and Toad?
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Great list! I love audiobooks for myself but haven ‘t played them too much for my girls. I’ll have to check out some of those!
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Zanna @ Zannaland says
I have not heard the audio book, but I’d imagine one of my favorites Chicka Chicka Boom Boom would be great on audio! 😀 I used to have that thing memorized (and I’m sure I will again soon!) Love your picks!
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Allison says
Muncha, mncha, muncha, that’s great. I can hear my kiddo yelling that too. I also didn’t know that Pooh Bear’s name is Edward Bear. I’ll have to check these out for my kiddo’s b-day coming up.
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Nehemiah says
CIndy,What clott is saying is that the fcnaniial crisis is so wide spread an so deep that no one actor can address it. Regardless of whether that actor is a state a country of a school teacher.Q.Why?A. There are about 700 800 trillion is global derivatives in the global market right now. The global GDP is approx 65 trillion. The root cause of the fcnaniial crisis is that the global fcnaniial system is currently holding 800 trillion in derivatives that were valued at that price based on homes appreciating in value at 10%/yr. The creation of these derivatives assumed that such growth rates would continue for the life of the derivatives (years, decades). As long as everyone agreed that homes would indeed continue to increase in price at such a rate then banks would loan money to each other based on the value of the derivatives. As this behavior continued the banks found that the more money they invested in these instruments, the more they would make. And even prudent banks were forced into this as they could not compete with the banks that were doing it, if they stayed out of the derivatives. The end result is that just like the consumer, the banks spent all of their money and then borrowed more money so that they could keep spending (investing) in these derivatives. Now banks are required to hold a minimum amount of cash in its vaults, a rrequired reserve rate. US law states that the required reserve rate for commercial banks is 3%. So if a bank has $100 in checking and savings accounts, then they are required to keep $3 in the bank and can loan out or invest the other $97. It gets more complicated. If the bank does not have the 3% as required by law the bank can borrow it from the FED in the form of a loan at a certain interest rate. As of Spring 2008 100% of cash reserves in ALL of the US banks is borrowed money. All of the banks in the US combined have $0 of their own money in their vaults. Every dollar they have, every dollar that they hand you when you withdraw money is money that has been borrowed from the federal reserve and must be paid back with interest. There is yet another component. Just like you and me, banks must make minimum payments of the loans that they have taken to buy derivatives. And like credit cars, the payments that the banks have to make can change based on certain criteria such as credit rating ( i.e moodies rating a derivative AAA).Now how does all of this come together? The 800 trillion in derivatives can be seem as collateral for a set of loans ( a huge number of loans between a huge number of banks around the world). Remeber that the 800 trillion value was based on 10% annual home price increase. Well homes are now decreasing in value so those derivatives are no longer worth 800 trillion. Well now the banks have a problem. they loaned out 800 trillion (not exactly but this is a rough overview)on the basis of 800 trillion worth of derivatives as collateral. The collateral is now worth pennies on the dollar based upon the few transactions that have actually taken place. This means that if i dont pay the bank the 800 trillion i owe them now along with an interst rate, they will take the derivatives and sell them in order to recoup their money. But the derivatives are only worth 100 trillion. the only way i was able to pay the bank back was to use that 800 trillion to buy homes ( as an example and then sell them for more then i bought them in a very short period of time ( i.e flip them). Well i can no longer flip houses as there are not enough people who have enough money or make enough more for me to sell them homes ( the problem of 1st time buyers being priced out of the market). Now i can no longer pay back the bank of the 800 trillion so the bank may take all of my derivatives and sell them, similar to a foreclosure. But the banks has a problem too. It will not get 800 trillion for the derivatives because the same problem that caused me to not be able to pay the bank causes the bank to not be able to cell the derivatives. The bank has now lost 700 trillion. But the bank owes that 700 trillion to its account holders ( people with checking and savings accounts) and to the FED (or their national equivalent). We have all lost money. The only way to replace the 700 trillion is to print it. but that would cause massive inflation and all of the money you got back would actually be worth less then what you originally gave the bank due to inflation.lets recap: I put $100 in the bank. The bank bought $100 worth of derivatives ( i.e loaned someone the money). But by law has to have 3% reserves so the bank borrows $3 from the FED. Housing prices stop increasing at 10% and start to drop so the person who borrowed the money has lost it and cannot pay it back. The bank can only sell the collateral for $20 but owes me $100 and the FED $3. Now the borrower has lost $100, the bank has lost $80 but still owes me and the FED a total of $103I walk to a bank and deposit $100Start of cycle (assets and Liabilities):Bank: $+100Borrower: $0Step 2, Bank loans money to borrow for a $10 fee and borrows from the FED to cover its reserve requirement:Bank:(-)$103 negative $103 due to its reserve being borrowed money and owing me my account balance, but it would be booked as a positive value as the borrower owes the bank $110. The bank accounts for this as a net positive $7Borrower:$100Step 3, homes lose value:Bank:(-)$3 + collateral _+ FeeBorrower:$0 (he cant pay his bill, the principle $100 of the $10 fee, so the bank takes the derivatives as collateral)Step 4 bank tries to sell collateral and only gets 20% of the original value:Bank:(-)$103 + $20 = (-)$83Borrower: $0Step 5 who does the bank pay back?FED: +$2Me: +$81bank: $-20the bank now owes me money and if it cant pay me then i lose $19, and the FED loses $1 even though i did not take part in the loan cycle directly
vanessa says
I’ve not checked any of these out! Thanks for giving me a place start… I kind of gave up after the Squirrel Nutkin fiasco. 🙂
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Mary-Carolyn says
Like Kathy, I’m a fan of “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” and “If You Give a Moose a Muffin!” I think there are more in this series, but those were the only two I had.
My mom drove carpool for my brother, and always had a book on tape for the boys she drove. One of their favorites was “Are You My Mother?”
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Heather @ Not a DIY Life says
So many great kids’ books, so little time!!
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Tracy @HallofFameMoms says
Thanks so much for posting. I’m seriously considering homeschooling my boys and something like this from the library could be very useful for us. I might not have given the idea much thought at all without your post.
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Gianluca says
You do realize that would be a felnoy ( which the bank can’t help you with ) .Are you previously experienced with jails ?Can you survive in there ?There are some very mean old ladies in there and unless you are about 250 lbs tough ,I would Not risk it .>
Christine says
These all look great! I can’t wait to try them when Eli is old enough to actually pay attention. Right now he just wants to chew on books. Soon enough I guess!
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September says
ITA with you on Charlotte’s Web–that was one of the books I loaded onto Bronte’s ipod before our trip to FL and both kids have been listening to it.
As for myself, the greatest audiobook ever is the Harry Potter series. Jim Dale elevates narration to an art form, and I enjoy the books (all of which I’ve read numerous times) in an entirely new way listening to him.
Stephanie says
Oh! Amanda! You’ve inspired me. I am so going to take my 3-year-old to the library next week to check out some audio books. I loved those when I was a little girl! Two of my favorites were The Magic Fish and Stone Soup.
Quick Question: What do you play the CDs on? Do you have a portable CD player?
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