Does your toddler ever listen to audio books? This was something that I remember doing all the time as a child (books on tape – wow that shows my age, and then progressing to books on CD) and I’ve recently started letting my toddlers listen to audio books too. They love it!
Listening is such an important skill, and one that often gets overlooked now that everything is so interactive. While listening to stories, your toddler is learning about the structure of texts, increasing their vocabulary, identifying language patterns (rhyme, repetition etc), and most importantly, learning to love books.
We’ve been using Audible.com (they have a 30 day free trial) and I download them to my phone using the free Audible app. Our favorite place to listen to them is in the car, but I’ll often put one on when we have quiet time, or just before nap time. If we happen to have a hard copy of the book as well, they like to follow along.
By signing up for a 30 day free trial here you are eligible for 2 free audio book downloads to get started.
Our favorite audio books so far have been:
1. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? By Eric Carle
2. Walking through the Jungle By Stella Blackstone
3. The Wheels on the Bus By BBC Audiobooks
I’d love to hear what audio books you think your toddler would love to listen to with their Audible free trial (comment below).
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Would love this for my 18 month old grandson. Thanks for the chance to win.
would like to see if these work as well as actually reading to the young ones
The research I’ve read shows that there are lots of benefits.
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Our baby loves books, but we’ve never tried an audio version!!
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My nieces and nephews would love these audio books. Thanks for the giveaway!
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My grandson would love the Thomas book!!
These would be perfect for three year old that loves books! Thanks for the opportunity
THIS WOULD BE PERFECT FOR CAR RIDES!
We are loving these for car rides!
My nephew would really enjoy this!
the grandkids would luv this
My 3 year old would absolutely LOVE these. She’s so into books right now.
Fantastic!
We have all the Julia Donaldson books on audio tapes and the best by far is the Lady Bird Heard. Reuben knows all the words and laughs when the thieves fall into the duckpond. There’s even a song which is AWESOME!!
Great post, I’d not really thought much about audio books yet, but there were a huge part of my life growing up – all those LOOOOONG car journeys!
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Thanks for the great suggestion – I’ll have to get that one!
I think they would listen to Thomas and Friends
Thanks
Nice picks.. Peppa was such a great story line to listen to. We do longer books now. But miss those short stories now 🙂
Thanks Reshama – I’d be quite happy to not listen to Peppa anymore!
Thank you for this chance!!
Wheel On the Bus sounds great.
That one is always a favorite!
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These would be great for my Granddaughters
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What a cool way to help all the grandma’s out here with toddlers and short attention spans. Thanks for the chance!
We love audio books, they always have such nice sound effects and are great for when Mummy is tired! 😉 I remember listening to them on my cassette player as a kid in the car when I was little
I remember the cassette ones too!
I use to love audio books as a kid. My dad used to always play the wind in the willows and the hobbit.
I think Thomas would go down well out of those choices, plus mummy is rather sick of Peppa!
Agree on Julia Donaldson, we play stick man in the car a lot.
We’ll have to give this a try!