Great Books on Tape or Compact Discs for Kids

Does that long car trip feel like it's never going to end? Or are you just looking for a good story on a lazy afternoon? Check out books on tape or CD and those days and miles will fly by. Just a few of our great books on tape are listed below.

Annabelle and her family are dolls that came from England over 100 years ago. Annabelle's owners don't know the dolls are alive. They have adventures when the humans are away or asleep and they even solve the mystery of Auntie Sarah who has been missing for 45 years! Wonderful reading by Lynn Redgrave.

Jason has a bad case of "Klondike fever". He stows away on a ship headed to Alaska, then North on the Dead Horse Trail, Chilkoot Pass, and 500 miles down the Yukon River. But will he make it before freeze-up? A great adventure story about survival, friendship, and courage during the Klondike gold rush days.

One day Sammy Keyes is looking out the window with binoculars and observes a crime being commited in the hotel across the street. Unfortunately the robber sees her watching him! Sammy is too curious for her own good and she gets right in the middle of a mystery. Can she solve the mystery and crime before the crook finds her? This is the first in a great series of Sammy Keyes mysteries.

Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll

All-American Girls: The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team
by Marla Miller

Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis

Caddie Woodlawn
by Carol Ryrie Brink

The Cay
by Theodore Taylor

The Chicken Doesn't Skate
by Gordon Korman

Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh

Horrible Harry and the Dungeon
by Suzy Kline

Joey Pigza Loses Control
by Jack Gantos

Julie of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead

Longest Hair in the World
by Lois Duncan

Music of Dolphins
by Karen Hesse

Piglet Meets a Heffalump and Other Stories
by A. A. Milne

Ramona the Brave
by Beverly Cleary

Ramona's World
by Beverly Cleary

Rascal
by Sterling North

Ronald Morgan Goes to Camp
by Patricia Reilly Giff

The Thief
by Megan Whalen Turner

The Watson's Go to Birmingham
by Christopher Paul Curtis

Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak

Adventures of TinTin
by Herge

American Girls
by various authors

Arthur
by Marc T. Brown

Boxcar Children series
by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis

Hank the Cowdog
by John Erickson

Harry Potter
by J. K. Rowlings

Henry and Mudge
by Cynthia Rylant

Junie B. Jones
by Barbara Park

Redwall
by Brian Jacques