So many places you can find children’s audio stories online and off for free listening. Audio isn’t just for car journeys.

Today’s show features Zoe Toft of Playingbythebook.net . She is a mum of 2 and popular book blogger sharing her journey of play and her love of books with us all. They are a bilingual family and she’s ranked #4 in the Tots100 and #7 in the Raising Playful Tots Index.

Zoe shares her love of audio for children in today’s episode.

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What are your current audio listens?

Hiccup: How to Train Your Dragon

Matilda

The BFG

The Gruffalo and Friends CD Box Set: The Gruffalo / The Smartest Giant / A Squash and a Squeeze / Room on the Broom / The Snail and the Whale / Monkey Puzzle

Little Town on the Prairie (Little House)

The Magician’s Nephew (BBC Radio Collection: Chronicles of Narnia)

Pausing with longer audio books or running the story all the way through?

Where’s a good place to find audio books online?

Radio drama on BBC RADIO

Sunday afternoon Children’s drama 4-5 – last week Chitty Chitty Bang bang, this weekend part 1 of Alan Garner’s Elidor and Baum’s Wizard of Oz

Radio 4 extra

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4extra/

Sometime take a look at Librivox – audio versions of copyright free books, recorded by members of the public

– lots of potential,but not yet amounting to much for kids, free , most voices in US accents

Storynory – http://storynory.com/ (also a storynory japan!) , quite a few Grimm and Andersen fairy stories, British accent – text provided, but recording is more like telling a story than reading a text.

A recent discovery: Radio NewZealand has quite a...