Audio Book Enemy at Green Knowe
April 25, 2008
L. M. Boston’s thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century.
Category : Kids and Teens (578)
Publisher : Listen & Live
Author : L.M. Boston
Narrator : Simon Vance
Length : 5 hours (Unabridged)
“What’s Thought Cannot be Unthought”
“Magical thrills and chills”
“One of the best”
“Still Magical”
“Wonderfully scary in the best possible way”
Audio Book Children of Green Knowe
April 24, 2008
L. M. Boston’s thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century.
A young boy arrives at an old country house in the midst of a flood and discovers that it is inhabited not only by his great-grandmother, but by a host of half-seen children–inhabitants of the manor from centuries past.
There are three children: Toby, who rides the majestic horse Feste; his mischievous little sister, Linnet; and their brother, Alexander, who plays the flute. The children warmly welcome Tolly to Green Knowe… even though they’ve been dead for centuries.But that’s how everything is at Green Knowe. The ancient manor hides as many stories as it does dusty old rooms.
And the master of the house is great-grandmother Oldknow, whose storytelling mizes present and past with the oldest magic in the world.
Audio book Young Carthaginian
April 23, 2008
“Henty makes history fun, similar to the way a mother can make spinach taste good if it is concealed in the midst of something else.”Indianapolis News
Recommended for Ages 10 and up.
Hannibal was a great and skillful general who defeated the Romans at Trebia, Lake Trasimenus, and Cannae, and all but took Rome.
G. A. Henty has woven an exciting adventure tale that will keep listeners on the edge of their seats while providing detailed information about the Punic Wars and the political climate in which they took place. This is the perfect way to awaken interest in history and encourage learning.
Audiobook Young Carthaginian: A Tale of the Times of Hannibal [5:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadLittle Woman audio book
April 22, 2008
“C. M. [Hébert] reads the story with the gentle affection and conviction one imagines in Jo March as she reads to her elderly aunt.”–AudioFile
This audio book for children, based on the author’s own youthful experiences, describes the family life of the Marches in a small New England community.
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother Marmee while their father serves as chaplain during the American Civil War.
Jo at 15 is ungainly, unconventional, and enterprising, with an ambition to be an author. Meg, a year older, is pretty and wishes to be a lady. Beth is a delicate child of 13 with a taste for music.
Amy is a blonde beauty of 12. The story explores their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family’s small income, their friendship with the neighboring Laurence family, and their later love affairs and destinies as women.
Dead Man’s Chest Audiobook
April 11, 2008
Fans of naval stories should love Johnson’s book, which honors Stevenson’s classic AudioFile
Dead Mans Chest, written as a sequel to Treasure Island, begins with Long John Silvers escape from the merchantman Hispaniola at Puerta Plata and culminates with the American Revolution more than a decade later.
It describes in rich detail the unholy alliance between this softhearted cutthroat, his teenage nephew, David Noble, and Captain John Paul Jones. Together they work to retrieve a kings ransom of Spanish gold and jewels from a dead mans chest.
