It’s Wednesday, May 27, 2020, and time for Language Arts at ClickSchooling!
Recommended Website:
Librivox
(tinyurl.com/jvgbw8v)
Age Range: All (All grades; children with parental supervision)
Now that the weather outside is getting nicer here in the Northern Hemisphere, send the kids outside with some audio books! They can perch in a tree, skip rope, start a garden, have a little picnic, or even play hopscotch while listening to these wonderful classics.
Or keep a supply of titles handy for those days when you’re unable to read to them. With hundreds of completed works listed under the “Children’s Fiction” or “Children’s Non-Fiction”categories, there is more than an entire year’s worth of bedtime stories and read-alouds here, including the works of such well-known authors as:
- Aesop (Fables)
- Alcott, Louisa May (Eight Cousins, Little Women, etc.)
- Baum, L. Frank (Oz books)
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Little Lord Fauntleroy, Little Princess, Secret Garden, etc.)
- Carroll, Lewis (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, etc.)
- Collodi, Carlo (Adventures of Pinocchio, available in English and Italian!)
- And many, many more.
Click any title to see a brief synopsis before downloading/listening. But that’s not all! Parents may like to browse the other categories as well:
- Adventure
- Animals
- Biography
- History
- Spy Stories
- Teen/Young Adult
- and many others
This site can be searched for a specific book by title and author as well.
Note: There is an overlap between these books and the ones you would find in Project Gutenberg or Archive.org. This is because Librivox allows both of these sites to house their entire collection of completed works. However, Librivox maintains the best-catalogued and most easily searchable list of these titles. Also, only Librivox itself includes a brief synopsis for each completed title, lists the works currently in progress, allows you to request email notification upon completion of desired books in progress, allows you to request specific titles, and allows you to participate in the recording and editing process and their lively forum as well.
Additional Note: This review focuses on the “Children’s” books. The rest of this site is not specifically geared for children, so parental preview and guidance is, as always, advised. Books are continually being added to this collection, so bookmark it and return often.
NOTE: As always, parents should help select material appropriate for each child.
