Start Your Child’s Love Of Learning With Children’s Audiobooks

When our first child was a young toddler, my wife would read books to him almost on a daily basis. Each evening, I would hear her reading books to him by Dr. Seuss, “The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh”, and my personal favorite, “Snug House Bug House.”

Then, as two more children came along, my wife and I got busier, the stress of the added financial burdens and responsibilities took over, and the night time story-telling just ceased to be a part of our children’s lives. As the kids got older, instead of reading them books, we just found it easier to play them DVDs, which is kind of sad in a way, as the parent-child engagement and interaction in this situation is just about non-existent.

When we discovered audio books and started playing them for our children, a new dynamic was introduced into our household. Although it is nowhere near the same as sitting down with your kids and actually telling them a story, audio books for children stimulate a different part of their brain and engage them more deeply than if they were just sitting in front of a video, or the tv.

Audio books for children are not only a great way to get your kids away from the television for a few hours, but these exciting and educational alternatives to cartoons and video games are especially designed so that children can exercise their imagination while their favorite story is being narrated. Downloadable children’s audio books are also an ideal form of entertainment, because you can go online, choose from a wide variety of titles and have access to them without leaving home. Many great audio book titles, including classic fairy tales, popular books and adventure stories for children and teens can be downloaded to your computer, then burned to a CD or uploaded to an MP3 player.

Burning an audio book to a CD is great when traveling with children in the car. Instead of exposing their young impressionable minds to depressing news, or “filler” material played by drive-time radio stations, you can pop-in a great story into your vehicle’s CD player and enjoy quality family time as your children tune into the story and the narrative.

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Audio books for children are also a great learning tool that children will undoubtedly enjoy. Kids who are not avid readers will still gain some of the advantages of reading by listening to an exciting audio book. They can also learn other skills that reading alone may not offer, such as listening skills. In addition, if your child has difficulty reading, an audio book can help them hone their reading skills by following along with the narration while having the book in front of them.

Audio books for children are ideal in that they have many of the same benefits that reading provides. By listening to an audio book, children can acquire a larger vocabulary and increase their imagination skills. Listening to a book also stimulates reading in that once a child has listened to how exciting a book can actually be, they are more likely to pick up one of their favorite books and read it. A child’s audio book is also a great idea for children as a bedtime story. Although it is no substitute for a parent reading a story to the child, the right selection can provide a calming atmosphere in a way that the parent might not be able to do at times.

For parents who want to evaluate what audio books for children can do for their family, online audio book stores such as www.AudioBookOne.net offer a whole section on children’s audio books where you can read reviews of books and audiobooks to help you make the best choice for your family and even listen to samples before you make a purchasing decision. The children’s section also includes many popular audio book titles for teenagers.

Children audio book categories include action and adventure, animals, classics, fairy tales, horror & ghost stories, humor, love and romance, myths and legends, religious, sci-fi, fantasy and magic, short stories, books for under 10s and books for over 10s.

There are hundreds of best-selling book titles that you can get for children in audiobook format, including “50 Favourite Nursery Rhymes”, “Amelia Bedelia Audio Collection”, Mary Englebreit’s “Mother Goose: One Hundred Best-Loved Verses” featuring favorite and timeless children’s characters like Little Bo-Peep, Humpty Dumpty, Old King Cole, Jack and Jill and more, “A Bear Called Paddington”, “My Friend Flicka”, “The Adventures of Superman”, popular children shows, books by A.A. Milne (Winnie The Pooh), Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), C. S. Lewis (Chronicles Of Narnia), Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland), classic fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, Aesop and many other wonderful stories and literary gems.

Audio books in downloadable MP3 format also makes these books readily available for downloading and listening from the convenience of your own home. If you are feeling a bit bewildered and overwhelmed regarding where to start as a parent searching for children’s audiobooks, I recommend you consider visiting your local library, where trained librarians can help you find the best audio book titles for your children.

When a parent decides on an audio book for their child to listen to, they should also take into consideration some other specifics. For instance, listening to the book beforehand will help you decide if the book is age appropriate for your child. Is it too scary for them? Will they understand the story? Are the issues too mature or not mature enough to hold their interest? These are all questions a parent should ask before allowing their child to listen to the book.

With television and video games becoming more and more the norm in a typical household in our modern, time-starved society, children’s audiobooks are an exciting and educational alternative. They are not only entertaining and engaging, but audio books for children also provide a dynamic form of excitement and stimulation that helps to expand a child’s imagination and enhance their listening skills. With the popularity of the internet and the ease of downloading of files to MP3 players, CDs and other portable media, parents now have quick and easy access to a variety of titles that their children will be sure to love and enjoy.