Stay Screen-Free with Audiobooks

If you haven't had much luck convincing the addicts in your lives to join Screen-Free Week,  then why not try an audiobook. I used to be a purist—paper only—until I heard recordings of some of my favorite books like the ones below.


Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J. K. Rowling, performed by Jim Dale

Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

The Goose Girl, by Shannon Hale, performed by Full-Cast Audio

Books of Bayern #1, by Shannon Hale

And two fantastic choices of narrators for George Selden's The Cricket in Times Square: Rene Aubergonois or Tony Shalhoub.



Chester and Tucker's first appearance,
by George Selden

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Celebrate Screen-Free Week, May 2-8, 2016

Listening To YA

If your family is like ours, we spend half our time in the car driving to our next obligation. Audiobooks are a fantastic way to "read" even on those days when your family is in perpetual transit. Normally we opt for unabridged narration, but here are a few of our teens' favorites by Full Cast Audio. They do full justice to the text and are a pleasure, be it on the first, or fifteenth time around.

Cyrano, Geraldine McCaughrean's brilliant adaptation
of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac

Disappearing Act, by Sid Fleischman

The Goose Girl, by Shannon Hale

And just to prove why I generally prefer narration to performance, try The Graveyard Book, narrated by the author.

The Graveyard Book,
performed by Neil Gaiman

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