Audiobooks are a great way to get all students to tell stories regardless of their reading level. Listening to the stories being read helps students engage in texts, acquire more words, and ultimately improve vocabulary, comprehension, and critical thinking. Not only that, the audiobooks are very fun! Here are 15 of our favorite places to get free audiobooks for kids and suggest some of our favorite titles on each site.
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1. Harper Kids
Harperkids (from Harper Collins Publishing) are a great resource for discovering great audiobooks for kids. Not only that, you can find a list of books for a specific age, reading tips, and more.
2. kidsread2kids
Founded by siblings with dyslexia and ADHD to bring joy and confidence to struggling readers, KidsRead2Kids offers free audio-visual books go through Children for Children. These classic stories are shot through chapters for easy listening.
3. librivox
Librivox has an extensive catalog of public domain audiobooks: 499 novels and 47 non-fictions and counts. Everyone can listen for free on their computers, iPods, or other mobile devices.
4. Lit2go
Lit2Go offers free online stories and poetry collections in audiobook format. As a bonus, many stories can also be downloaded as PDF and printed as read.
5. Book of loyalty
Home to hundreds of free audiobooks for children, Loyal Books is an easy-to-play online platform with books in a variety of formats and languages.
6. PBS Children Reading
Celebrities and PBS Children’s authors read their favorite books aloud on the PBS Children’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.
7. Sora
Sora provides the world’s largest catalog of digital content for more than 53,000 schools and regions. It includes digital books, spanning e-books, audiobooks, comic books and magazines, depending on the options signed in the region. Your school can be used for free after registration. Ask for school management or child’s teacher login information.
- Ramona Quimby
- Harry Potter
- Want to know
8. Story seeds
The Story Seed Podcast offers something different for kids. Each plot pairs a child and their imagination with their favorite writers who develop their own ideas (“Stories Seeds”) into a primitive, never-becoming story.
9. Online storyline
Storyline Online is an award-winning children’s literacy program, the show features videos of famous actors, including well-known children’s books as well as colorful illustrations.
10. Story
StoryNory provides children with free download and streaming stories including classics, myths, fairy tales, poetry and original stories.
11. Spotify
Spotify is one of the best places to find free audiobooks in the public domain of children. Additionally, Spotify has a comprehensive spoken word section dedicated to audiobooks, poetry, and other non-musical resources, but you will need to create a free Spotify account to access them.
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Vooks is a digital library that includes animations, read narratives, engaging music and sounds, and highlighted texts that are read aloud. The site offers a free 7-day membership, which is then charged monthly, but many titles can be found for free on YouTube.
13. Small comfortable corner
The mission of the little comfortable corner is to create a peaceful environment for children to learn and read with classic literature.
14. Fable House
This YouTube channel is from New Zealand and has an impressive library of famous allegorical fables. The most interesting part is that you can choose a book title with an American accent or a British accent. There are also French, German, Italian and Spanish choices.
15. Amazon
Amazon offers many free audible audiobooks. Search for “Children’s Audible Books” and look for the $0 title. In addition to audiobooks, there are many podcasts that include reading stories.
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