I've somewhat belatedly discovered the wonders of audio books, thanks to the actress Natasha Gostwick and Storynory, a source of free children's literature podcasts. Right now JJ is lying quietly on her bed (it's an insanely hot day and she had too little sleep last night) listening to Natasha read The Happy Prince; recently we've listened to the whole of Alice in Wonderland (unabridged) and the fact that Alice Through the Looking Glass is currently being released only one chapter a month is causing daily queries. There are over 100 stories on the site, some written by its founders but mostly classic fairy stories (Anderson, Perrault and the brothers Grimm all represented), Greek myths, a few animal stories, some Bible stories, etc.
My original intention of using the stories as a way to help JJ get to sleep has been undermined by the fact that she finds them utterly gripping and won't close her eyes until they're done; so we have to time things carefully. She speaks of Natasha quite familiarly and just staged a mock phone conversation : "Dear Natasha, thank you for reading us these lovely stories." I think I may have to email an audio file.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Podcasts for kids
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Thank you about the imformation about that podcast. Although they are a bit big for me to download now. But maybe at the end of the month. I listen to the tree pigs, it was very cute :)
Hope you have a nice weekend
hope you did too! If I make it to the craft meetup on Saturday (I have three places to be at once, sadly), I will burn a disk for you. Or if not Saturday then next time...
Thank you :) I'm also expeting to be on the craft metting, let's see if DH doesn't have a last minute call...
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