I don’t know what your summer holiday is looking like, but we will be visiting family and friends in the Lake District and on the coast of Spain. Good audiobooks will definitely be our companions both when travelling and for down time during the days. Continue reading
Audiobooks
Classical Music
Each term we enjoy learning about a different composer – this term we are getting to know Camille Saint-Saens and his Carnival of the Animals. Our youngest was given this beautiful book for Christmas so it was a natural fit.
Christmas Audiobooks
Over Christmas we will be travelling to see family. For us this involves time in the car when we will listen to some audiobooks. If it’s the same for you, why not join us in listening to one of these Christmas themed stories?
Listening to Audiobooks
Audiobooks – don’t you love them?!
I remember listening to them as a teenager for what I thought was a quick way to read set literature texts. I have a clear image of travelling around Thailand and listening to Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov on a walkman – that was called revising! On reflection it was irresponsible and doing neither the country nor the novel justice.
I now love audiobooks for different reasons. Of course they are no substitute for actually all curling up on the sofa reading a story but I can only read so many stories to the children with my own voice, and so they are a wonderful way to supplement our daily read aloud times. Continue reading
CLASSICALLY CURIOUS 