Audiobooks for Youthful Energy Under 6 Hours
Shorter Kids Fiction:
A Christmas Story in Twenty-Four-and-a-Half Chapters
By: Alex T. Smith / Narrated By: Mathew Baynton
Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
Started out just okay. But then it became absolutely aDORable…!
By: Kate DiCamillo / Narrated By: Dylan Baker
Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
Because children feel, and most certainly DO live with, Pain…
By: E. B. White/ Foreword By: Melissa Sweet / Narrated By: Meryl Streep, January LaVoy, Kirby Heyborne, MacLeod Andrews, Mark Bramhall, Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell, Mark Deakins, Kimberly Farr, Tavia Gilbert, Dion Graham, Almarie Guerra, Johnny Heller, Lincoln Hoppe, Raymond Lee, Robin Miles, Adenrele Ojo, Ray Porter, Emily Rankin, John Rubinstein, Bahni Turpin, Julia Whelan
Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
ZOUNDS!!! Joyous performances, perfection in production! Sure to bring a tear or two to the uninitiated’s eye…!!!
By: Jennifer Richard Jacobson / Narrated By: William Dufris
Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
Uhm… well… sometimes I just canNOT help the way m’ brain works… good for youngsters in tough tough tough situations, tho’
Series: The Cricket in Times Square, Book 1
By: George Selden, Stacey Lee / Narrated By: Vikas Adam
Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
Hmmm… was a favorite, is still cute, but—
Written and Narrated By: Pablo Cartaya
Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
Compelling Concept and Successful Execution… There, I’ve managed to take the oh sooo large heart outta a truly beautiful story that’s wonderful for all ages…!!!
By: Lisa McMann / Narrated By: Alexa Magro
Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
NOT flat-out grand; but jeez… Wound up sobbing a time… or two…
By: Rosanne Parry / Narrated By: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
A knee-jerk Boo at the beginning smooths into a jolly good Listen!
The Sword of Monarchs
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan / Narrated By: Franchesca Agramonte
Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
Liked this from the first Listen!
Series: The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe, Book 1
By: Gordon McAlpine / Narrated By: Arte Johnson
Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
Li’l charmer, this was!
By: Kate DiCamillo / Narrated By: Finty Williams
Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
Not her best, but Dang! can the woman enchant a listener, or what?
Series: War Horse, Book 2
By: Michael Morpurgo / Narrated By: Derek Jacobi
Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
Okay, okay! ‘Tain’t no War Horse but, dude! Derek Jacobi makes this a Fave!
Series: Kenny and the Dragon, Book 2
By: Tony DiTerlizzi / Narrated By: Alan Cumming
Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
Did I LOVE the first in the series? Good cow, man: This one? Soooo good and Whazzis? Even tears?!
By: Norton Juster / Foreword By: Norton Juster / Narrated By: Rainn Wilson
Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
The audiobook that spawned an entire Newsletter…!
Series: Kenny and the Dragon, Book 1
By: Tony DiTerlizzi / Narrated By: Alan Cumming
Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
AWESOME “Anthropomorphic” fun!
A Dog in King Arthur's Court
Series: Cavall in Camelot, Book 1
By: Audrey Mackaman / Narrated By: Derek Perkins
Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
Introduces the seamier side of Camelot but with SUCH an innocent hero… Arthur’s deerhound!
By: Elvira Woodruff / Narrated By: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
5-Freaking-Unabashed-Stars, soooo gonna be a Fave!!!
By: George Zarr / Narrated By: Full Cast
Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
For the Kids, like, seriously: ‘taint for You…
By: Ray Bradbury / Narrated By: Kirby Heyborne / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
Kirby Heyborne? Oops, sorry dude: Bronson Pinchot? Uhm, muuuuch better
Series: Pax, Book 2
By: Sara Pennypacker / Narrated By: Michael Curran-Dorsano
Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
Jeez, and I thought the first book made me cry…!
Series: Evil Alien Warlord Cat, Book 1
By: Johnny Marciano, Emily Chenoweth / Narrated By: Oliver Wyman, Vikas Adam
Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
A tale FRAUGHT with eeeeevil… yet soooo aDORable….!!!
By: Annabel Pitcher / Narrated By: David Tennant
Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
Okay, finished this, like, ages ago… When can I stop crying…?!
By: Onjali Q. Raúf / Narrated By: Jennifer Jill Araya
Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
Simplistic yet necessary. Wait! Please remember that this is a 55-year old woman listening to a Kids audiobook, so booooo to me for being so heavy-handed…
Series: War Horse, Book 1
By: Michael Morpurgo / Narrated By: John Keating
Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
… >sniffle< …>sniffle< WAAAAAH!!!
By: David Shockley / Narrated By: Linda Graves
Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
Probably a better listen for those currently grieving the loss of a little companion…
Series: The Prydain Chronicles, Book 2
By: Lloyd Alexander / Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
Darker than the first, but I sailed through it with such delight!
Shorter Kids Nonfiction:
The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers
By: Tanya Lee Stone / Narrated By: JD Jackson
Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
Seriously—if 7th grade History class was like this, maybe I woulda listened. Absolutely wonderful!
Memories of World War II
Written and Narrated By: Lois Lowry
Length: 38 mins
So brief, so touching—just luminous
Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond
By: Joseph Medicine Crow / Narrated By: Henry Strozier
Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
Oh gosh how I wish this was longer!