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Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Format: Online
Author Hans Christian Andersen
Narrator David Tennant
Duration 14m
Celebrated actor David Tennant reads this classic fairy tale from Hans Christian Andersen, specially adapted for young children. In this much-loved story, a little fir tree is desperate to grow up and be like the other trees in the forest.
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Author: Peg Kehret
Format: Online
Author Peg Kehret
Narrator Charles Carroll
Duration 4h 17m
When Josh is forced to spend a summer with his eccentric aunt, he thinks it will be the most boring summer ever. Instead, he finds himself talking to a ghost from one hundred years ago! In order for the ghost to finally be at peace, it needs some help, and Josh reluctantly agrees to assist. But Josh needs to dig in the old cemetery, and when he doe...
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Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Format: Online
Author Hans Christian Andersen
Narrator Anne-Marie Duff
Duration 15m
Acclaimed actress Anne-Marie Duff reads this classic fairy tale from Hans Christian Andersen, specially adapted for young children. In this much-loved story, a beautiful mermaid falls in love with a prince.
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Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Format: Online
Author Hans Christian Andersen
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 15m
Award-winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi reads this classic fairy tale from Hans Christian Andersen, specially adapted for young children In this much-loved story, an emperor prefers a sparkling mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale.
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Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Format: Online
Author Hans Christian Andersen
Narrator Anne-Marie Duff
Duration 15m
Acclaimed actress Anne-Marie Duff reads this classic fairy tale from Hans Christian Andersen, specially adapted for young children. In this much-loved story, a tiny but beautiful girl grows from a barleycorn which has been enchanted by a witch.
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Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Format: Online
Author Hans Christian Andersen
Narrator Penelope Wilton
Duration 15m
Well-known actress Penelope Wilton reads this classic fairy tale from Hans Christian Andersen, specially adapted for young children. In this much-loved story, a little bird is called ugly by others until he matures into a beautiful swan.
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Author: Michael Morpurgo
Format: Online
Author Michael Morpurgo
Narrator John Keating
SeriesWar Horse, Book 1
Duration 4h 3m
In 1914, a beautiful foal with a distinctive cross on his nose, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western front. But his heart aches for Albert, the farmer's son he left behind. Will he ever see his true master again?
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Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Format: Online
Author Hans Christian Andersen
Narrator Penelope Wilton
Duration 15m
Well-known actress Penelope Wilton reads this classic fairy tale from Hans Christian Andersen, specially adapted for young children. In this much-loved story, a princess must rescue her brothers from the spell cast by a wicked queen.
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The Fright: Woodside School Series, Book 1
Author: Jean Ure
Format: Online
Author Jean Ure
Narrator Jean Ure
SeriesWoodside School, Book 1
Duration 34m
Childhood adventures that are fun for all the family. Poor Catherine Onslow! Everybody was either part of a group or had a best friend except Catherine. The first in a series of 4 unabridged audiobooks for girls aged 6 - 9 set at Woodside School.
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Just William: Commonsense About Holidays
Author: Richmal Crompton
Format: Online
Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 9m
Holidays need to be reformed. Children work really hard at school but don't get enough time off from school to rest their brains. The sometimes- irascible William Brown holds great stock in these statements. He believes that he sorely needs to rest his brain and that altering the school holidays time to term time, and term time to holiday time is a...
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Just William: The Hidden Treasure
Author: Richmal Crompton
Format: Online
Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 14m
Jimmy's brother Roger and Roger's two friends Charles and Bill are an inseparable trio who call themselves 'The Three Musketeers'. One morning, they set out in search of an adventure, hoping to find some valuable hidden treasure. There's only one small set-back: they don't know where to look for it, although their preparation is second-to-none. Cha...
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Just William: Home For the Holidays
Author: Richmal Crompton
Format: Online
Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 15m
Home for the Holidays' is a wonderful story of everyone's favourite loveable scamp William Brown. Taken from its namesake collection from CSA Word, this unabridged story is a chucklesome treat that sees William getting up to his trademark mischief and driving the adults around him to distraction and despair - even if he does have dubiously good int...
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Author: Rev W Awdry
Format: Online
Author Rev W Awdry
Narrator Michael Angelis
Duration 1h 16m
Three original stories from the Reverend W. Awdry's bestselling Railway Series, read by Michael Angelis, narrator of TV's Thomas & Friends. Branch Line Engines Cinders and ashes! Thomas crashes into the Stationmaster's house at breakfast time, and Daisy the Diesel Rail-car comes to help while Thomas is repaired. Toby shows Daisy how to deal w...
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Author: Richard Hughes
Format: Online
Author Richard Hughes
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 6h 13m
Set in the nineteenth century against a backdrop of island life and the vast surrounding seas, A High Wind in Jamaica is the gripping story of the Bas-Thornton children, whose parents send them back to England following a hurricane in the postcolonial Caribbean they call home. Having set sail, the children quickly fall into the hands of pirates.
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Author: Frank L Baum
Format: Online
Author Frank L Baum
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
Linda Marshall's BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of L. Frank Baum's children's classic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Originally broadcast as part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season. When a tornado strikes her farmhouse in Kansas, young Dorothy and her dog Toto are lifted to the magical world of Oz, the strange land of the Munchkins. There she emba...
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Wraith World, the Sarah Jane Adventures
Author: Cavan Scott, Mark Wright
Format: Online
Author Cavan Scott, Mark Wright
Narrator Elisabeth Sladen
Duration 1h 19m
A bizarre journal leads to terror for Sarah Jane and friends, in this exclusive audio story read by Elisabeth Sladen. Rani is delighted to hear that her favourite author, Gregory P. Wilkinson, is doing a signing at a local bookshop. When he agrees to be interviewed for the school newspaper, she is even more thrilled. And when the old man presents h...
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Author: Richard Adams
Format: Online
Author Richard Adams
Narrator Ralph Cosham
Duration 15h 53m
Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren; he felt sure of it. They had to leave immediately. So begins a long and perilous journey of survival for a small band of rabbits. As the rabbits skirt danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band, its humorous characters, and its compelling culture, complete...
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Author: Richmal Crompton
Format: Online
Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesJust William, Book 1
Duration 4h 51m
This collection of stories follows the adventures of that irrepressible and ageless schoolboy William Brown. Perpetually scruffy, mud-stained and mischievous, he is a lovable scamp whose pranks end in distaster - for his elders at least!
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Author: Richmal Crompton
Format: Online
Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 51m
Seventeen favourite stories about the irrepressibleWilliam Brown, specially selected and read by Martin Jarvis. Whether a long-standing fan or a first time listener, this collection of stories is the ultimate Just William audio experience. With over four hours of laugh-out-loud stories, including two stories performed to a live audience, Just Will...
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A Little Lower Than the Angels
Author: Geraldine Mccaughrean
Format: Online
Author Geraldine Mccaughrean
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 3h 35m
Gabriel has no idea what the future will hold when he runs away from his apprenticeship with the bad tempered stonemason. But God himself, in the shape of playmaster Garvey, has plans for him. He wants Gabriel for his angel. Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award.
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Author: Michael Morpurgo
Format: Online
Author Michael Morpurgo
Narrator Robin Bowerman
Duration 2h 11m
A cat's nine lives are full of adventure and excitement and none more so than Montezuma, the farmyard cat. From a young kitten to a grand old cat, he is cunning and proud while establishing his kingdom, but to Matthew, he's always loving and adorable.
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