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Listening, learning: Exciting Audio Books for Children

Posted on October 10th, 2009 in Uklondonpubs Londonpubs

True well-crafted radio plays which make fun, for which they were intended: the children. Here is a selection of recommended titles. “The Penderwicks home” from author Jeanne Birdsall is one of the audiobooks, which are presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair (October 14 to 18). The eponymous hero of reading for children aged eight, a very special family: After the mother died after giving birth to her youngest daughter from cancer, four girls living alone with her father. The mother has wrested the aunt of the children Quartet on his deathbed promise to care for a new wife for her husband.

Ansteht One day, actually a blind date for the father, to veer to the girls that they could face a stepmother. They design, therefore, a “Dad-rescue plan” your old man should get served up as a lot of ugly women – and decide at the end for none. What triggers turmoil among the Penderwicks, four can be used for silver fish / Hörbuch Hamburg released CDs to listen to be bought for just under 20 euros.

“Stromert Lee Raven” is a pickpocket of the future: The hero of the audiobook from the jumbo-Verlag London by the year 2046 and lies in wait before the pubs and clubs. Herausgetorkelt The drunker people get, the easier it can make use of her bag contents. Eines Tages geht ihm zufällig eine ganz besondere Beute ins Netz: ein magisches Buch, in dem alle Geschichten der Welt stehen – und das diese auch noch selbst vorliest.

But once Lee Raven realized that he must descend. Of specific skills because, given the book, it is not surprising that soon after the Schmöker many are here. The story is entertaining and exciting to the end – not least because it is told alternately from the perspective of several people. The four CDs cost about 20 euros.

“A mittelschönes life” erstmal sounds not at all beautiful. Finally, the unabridged reading from the pen of the author Kirsten Boie an “A children’s book on homelessness,” the children aged six years to stimulate reflection. The man at issue here, too, was once a child. He has lived with his parents in a nice apartment and did not want to end up around on the street, but be a football player.

Gradually, the young listeners are confronted with the marital issues, alcoholism, unemployment and debt. As an “ordinary citizen may slip,” when one comes to the other, and what there is out there for the homeless, which will show the history. The audio CD of Oetinger costs around 8 euros.

“Silbertod” also comes from the Oetinger audio program, but is “not intended for primary school students, but” to teenagers and adults. Pin main character works at a funeral and watched dead bodies when he is drugged and assaulted. When he awoke again to speak the people who attacked him with the corpse on which he should have an eye. And even worse: In his hometown of Silver Apple murderer does his mischief. The four CDs include Felix von Manteuffel ( “Harry Potter”) and Marek Harloff read audio book is available at a price of just under 20 euros.

“The Zookonzert: A symphonic story for the whole family is” a few months ago appeared in the jumbo-Verlag. Because the price they had received the German Record Critics Award, the “Symphonic story” for children aged three years, but also play a role at the upcoming Book Fair. Spokesperson on the 18th they will Simsa Marko October, the last day, the Children’s Forum imagine.

The story revolves around the little Rosalie, to sleep without being tired. So she makes her bed and all the stuffed animals in a zoo: The plush frog is dancing the polka, and the parrot sings a sea shanty. The orchestral music, the children must not dazudenken: Erke Duit she has composed and can import. The approximately 60 minutes long CD costs about 13 euros.