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Want your kids to develop a “taste” for great literature — but just can’t get them interested in reading “boring old books”?
Here’s how you can bring hundreds of “Living Books” and Short Stories to vivid life for young listeners, and introduce them to these classic tales – painlessly!
First, here’s the Short Version of this page:
Here’s what we’ve got for you: We’ve crammed over a dozen of our most popular MP3 CD collections ( over 450 Classic Old Time Radio programs, audiobook readings, and supplemental resources) either in DOWNLOAD or COMPUTER DVD format (your choice) to give you the very best – and largest – audio library of classic book and story dramatizations ever, designed specifically for homeschool and family listening.
The collections included are:
Classic Children’s Literature for the Ears
Adventure Ahead!
Around the World in 80 Days
Charles Dickens For The Ears
Fairy Tales & Wonder Stories
Shakespeare for the Ears
Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Thirty More Famous Stories
Mark Twain For The Ears
My Favorite Story
Sherlock Holmes for the Ears
Les Miserables
University Theater
The World’s Greatest Novels

If your family enjoys audio programs, then they (and you) will love this entertaining and educational collection. It has been carefully selected and curated with homeschoolers in mind – to introduce hundreds of “living books” and classic short stories to your children. Listen any way that works best for you — on your computer, burn to a CD, on your mp3 player, phone or any other mp3 compatible device in your household. It’s a one of a kind audio library that you’ll use and treasure for years to come. And right now it is on sale:
To order the DOWNLOAD EDITION ONLY for just $37, click here:
Next, here’s the LONG Version of this page!
Check out the HUGE library of resources that are included in our Living Books for the Ears Mega-Collection. (And hang on to your hats… it’s a loooong list!)
(Want to hear some samples? Sure you do! As you scroll through this page, you’ll find several Audio Samples to listen to as you read through these listings. Just look for the little picture of the kids in front of the radio and click the links you find there!)


Alice Through the Looking Glass (Part 1 and 2)
Alice in Wonderland (Part 1 and 2)
Captains Courageous
Knights and Tournaments
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Alice In Wonderland (half hour version)
Pinocchio
Robin Hood and the Black Knight
Snow White
The Three Musketeers
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Blue Bird (Shirley Temple)
The Pied Piper of Hamlin
The Yearling
Treasure Island

NBC THEATER was truly one well loved program. Beyond just its educational value, the combination of great stories… quality acting… and first class production made these shows wonderful entertainment. They are truly great radio AND a highly accessible way to introduce YOUR kids to great American Literature!
With this collection, your kids can PAINLESSLY soak up more Great Literature than most current college graduates even know exists!
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT
DON QUIXOTE
GOODBYE MR. CHIPS
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
JANE EYRE
LOST HORIZON
MOBY DICK
PENROD
THE PICKWICK PAPERS by Charles Dickens
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen
TALES OF EDGAR ALLEN POE
THE TIME OF MAN by Elizabeth Manly Roberts
THE TRACK OF THE CAT


Shakespeare for the Ears

E. Nesbit’s BEAUTIFUL STORIES FROM SHAKESPEARE
OUR OWN EXCLUSIVE AUDIOBOOK Edition, AVAILABLE ONLY IN THIS COLLECTION! A Home Study Course For the Young At Heart – 20 Stories from Shakespeare’s plays retold for all ages Narrated by Rose Lee, Anna Sul, and Ramona Voight
Edith Bland Nesbit (1858 – 1924) was an English author and poet whose children’s works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television. You might recognize some of them: The Railway Children, Five Children and It, and The Story of the Treasure Seekers.
BEAUTIFUL STORIES FROM SHAKESPEARE is Nesbit’s much beloved, time-tested classic “Living Book” adaptation of TWENTY of Shakespeare’s plays, retold especially for younger listeners in her day (which means that they are appropriate for both young AND adult readers today). Her book, heavily illustrated and including a wonderful selection of famous quotes from Shakespeare & a pronunciation guide (all of which is included in our collection) was originally subtitled “A Home Study Course”. It is indeed that, as anyone who goes through this volume will have an excellent grasp on Shakespeare’s stories & a taste of his writing — so we kept that subtitle for our own CD collection. Our brand new audiobook version of this classic book makes it all the more accessible and “painless” for those who want to introduce the Bard’s work to their children. Included in this newly recorded 4+ hour audiobook course:

* A Brief Biography of Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE ON THE AIR!
* The Tempest
* A Festival of Shakespeare: A vintage three-part presentation of excellent excerpts and performances from Shakespeare’s sonnets & plays, very well done! (1.5 hours total)
* Excerpts from Romeo & Juliet: Well done readings and performances from this play. (30 minutes)
* A Personal Shakespeare Anthology (1 hour) : 20 Readings of great scenes from different Shakespeare plays, wonderfully read by actor Martin Clifton.
SPECIAL REPORT:
PRACTICAL PROVEN TIPS FOR LEARNING MORE ABOUT SHAKESPEARE!
We surveyed over 300 homeschooling families who already study and enjoy Shakespeare’s writings and asked them what tips they would give to families new to the Bard’s work. Here are some of their best suggestions, tips and study ideas… some great, real life practical experience here, folks! These approaches have worked for others — you’ll want to go through all of these and glean what can work for YOUR family!
56 Page Shakespeare Coloring Book
A Pronunciation Guide to Shakespeare’s Names
Great Quotations from Shakespeare for Copywork and Memorization
Tips on Introducing Your Kids to Shakespeare… So They Will Actually LIKE Him!
Shakespeare for All Seasons
A Brief Shakespeare Timeline (PDF)
The Sonnets of Shakespeare
The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne
For Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner
TEN Concise 8-10 page Study Guides to Shakespeare’s Comedy Plays
Each of these includes some background information on the play, an act-by-act summary, and discussion questions.
* Study Guide for The Merry Wives of Windsor
* Study Guide for The Merchant of Venice
* Study Guide for Comedy of Errors
* Study Guide for Two Gentlemen of Verona
* Study Guide for Taming of the Shrew
* Study Guide for Love’s Labour’s Lost
* Study Guide for Much Ado About Nothing
* Study Guide for As You Like It
* Study Guide for Twelfth Night
* Study Guide for The Tempest


Sherlock Holmes on Old Time Radio!


The 50 Stories in this Audio Collection Are:
KING ALFRED AND THE CAKES
KING ALFRED AND THE BEGGAR
KING CANUTE ON THE SEASHORE
THE SONS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
THE WHITE SHIP
KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT
A STORY OF ROBIN HOOD
BRUCE AND THE SPIDER
THE BLACK DOUGLAS
THREE MEN OF GOTHAM
OTHER WISE MEN OF GOTHAM
THE MILLER OF THE DEE
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
THE UNGRATEFUL SOLDIER
SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
POCAHONTAS
GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HIS HATCHET
GRACE DARLING
THE STORY OF WILLIAM TELL
ARNOLD WINKELRIED
THE BELL OF ATRI
HOW NAPOLEON CROSSED THE ALPS
THE STORY OF CINCINNATUS
THE STORY OF REGULUS
CORNELIA’S JEWELS
ANDROCLUS AND THE LION
HORATIUS AT THE BRIDGE
JULIUS CÆSAR
THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES
DAMON AND PYTHIAS
A LACONIC ANSWER
THE UNGRATEFUL GUEST
ALEXANDER AND BUCEPHALUS
DIOGENES THE WISE MAN
THE BRAVE THREE HUNDRED
SOCRATES AND HIS HOUSE
THE KING AND HIS HAWK
DOCTOR GOLDSMITH
THE KINGDOMS
THE BARMECIDE FEAST
THE ENDLESS TALE
THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT
MAXIMILIAN AND THE GOOSE BOY
THE INCHCAPE ROCK
WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT
CASABIANCA
ANTONIO CANOVA
PICCIOLA
MIGNON


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The 30 Stories in this Audio Collection Are:
COLUMBUS AND THE EGG
“UPON A PEAK IN DARIEN”—First Story
“UPON A PEAK IN DARIEN”—Second Story
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
“EUREKA!”
GALILEO AND THE LAMPS
SIR ISAAC NEWTON AND THE APPLE
THE FIRST PRINTER
JOHN GUTENBERG AND THE VOICES
JAMES WATT AND THE TEAKETTLE
DR. JOHNSON AND HIS FATHER
WEBSTER AND THE WOODCHUCK
FRIAR BACON AND THE BRAZEN HEAD
“AS RICH AS CROESUS”
THE GORDIAN KNOT
WHY ALEXANDER WEPT
KING RICHARD AND BLONDEL
KING JOHN AND PRINCE ARTHUR
KING JOHN AND THE MAGNA CHARTA
FREDERICK BARBAROSSA
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK
THE FALL OF TROY
PENELOPE’S WEB
HOW ROME WAS FOUNDED
HOW DECIUS MUS SAVED ROME
“DELENDA EST CARTHAGO!”
HANNIBAL, THE HERO OF CARTHAGE
CROSSING THE RUBICON
THE WHITE-HEADED ZAL
PETER KLAUS THE GOATHERD


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Included in this downloadable collection are all seven half hour episodes of the 1937 dramatization of Les Misérables (in great sound quality) plus Eight PDF Listening & Discussion Guides in PDF format. As a bonus, we are also including an adaptation of “The Story of the Bishop’s Candlesticks” plus an extra PDF Listening Guide for that program as well. Over 4 hours of great listening, + easy-to-use lesson guides make this a wonderful and memorable study of this classic “living book” for your students!
Part 1 – The Bishop
Part 2 – Javert
Part 3 – The Trial
Part 4 – Cosette
Part 5 – The Grave
Part 6 – The Barricade
Part 7 – The Final Episode

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Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1 hour)
Little Women by Louisa Mae Alcott (1 hour)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (30 minutes)
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1-1/2 hours)
The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol (30 minutes)
The Odyssey by Homer (30 minutes)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (2 hours)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (1 hour)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (2 hours)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (2 hours)
Man Without A Country by Edward Everett Hale (30 minutes)
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (2 hours)
Short Stories:
The Gold Bug by Edgar Allen Poe
Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
A Child is Born – the Nativity Story
Christmas with Mr. Pickwick by Charles Dickens


Included in this collection are:
Hansel and Gretel
Rapunzel
Cinderella
Water of Life
Prince Gigi & the Magic Ring
The Yellow Dwarf
The Goose Girl
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Six Swans
Brother and Sister
The Chinese Nightingale
The Youth Who Learned to Shiver and Shake
Snowdrop and the Seven Dwarves
Robin Hood
The White Cat
The Snow Queen
Beauty and the Beast
Andine
The Legend of King Arthur
The 12 Months
Why the Sea is Salty
The Donkey, The Table & The Stick
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
The Little Mermaid
The Elves and the Shoemaker

In this collection we have compiled 11 classic radio dramatizations of Twain’s stories — some very well known, and others hardly known at all. We’ve also included a biographical story about Twain’s life and career as well. All are great fun to listen to, and together offer a wonderful overview of the works of this great American writer.
Life on the Mississippi
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The Adventures of Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
Roughing It


A Tale of Two Cities (2 different versions!)
The Pickwick Papers (2 different versions!)
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
David Copperfield
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
(Dickens’ unfinished final novel)
A Christmas Carol (Ebenezer Scrooge)
Plus these great half hour dramatizations of Dickens’ lesser known but fascinating short stories:
The Signalman (a creepy ghost story!)
Dr. Manette’s Manuscript
The Trial for Murder
The Queer Client
Hunted Down

… that was the question the show’s producers posed to a dazzling array of movie stars, acclaimed artists, authors, composers and critics, renowned poets, scholars, humorists, explorers… everyone from Shirley Temple to Albert Einstein. And what stories did they choose? A marvelous array of classic short stories and “living books” — from the heart-warming to the dramatic, from the humorous to the downright spine-tingling. Some (the short stories) are complete adaptations of the original story. Others (the novels) are well done condensations or episodes from the original work — all neatly adapted in a fast-moving half hour of great dramatic radio that is suitable for the entire family.

Little Women
Les Miserables
Alice in Wonderland
The Man Without a Country
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Cyrano De Bergerac
David Copperfield
Arabian Nights
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Moby Dick
Gulliver’s Travels
The Three Musketeers
The Time Machine
Joan of Arc
Frankenstein
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
Peter Ibbetson
Lost Horizon
Ben Hur
The Moonstone
Mutiny on the Bounty
Around the World in 80 Days
A Christmas Carol
Plus CLASSIC SHORT STORIES BY
THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS AUTHORS…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Necklace
Aladdin’s Lamp
The Diamond Lens
The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
Doctor Heidegger’s Experiment
The Monkey’s Paw
The Phantom Rickshaw
Sire De Maletroit’s Door
God Sees the Truth But Waits
Lodging for the Night
The Man Who Made Gold
A Piece of String
The Country of the Blind
Roll Call of the Reef
The Strange Mr. Bartlesby
Jamie Freel
Brushwood Boy
In the Time of the Terror
The Light that Failed
Casey at the Bat
Adventure Ahead!
The Story of Robinson Crusoe
One of the 28th, by G. A. Henty
The Biscuit Eater
Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with the Circus
The Story of a Bad Boy
Two Years Before the Mast
A Tooth for Paul Revere
Hill Lawyer
You also get our Exclusive PDF Living Books for the Ears Listening Guide, to help you make classic radio programs and audios a vital part of your homeschool curriculum… with practical, proven teaching ideas, tips and listening tools to make sure your kids are listening to and learning from these Living Books for the Ears!
- These programs were carefully screened and selected for homeschooling families for their educational and entertainment value and audio quality.
- Positive moral values and character traits are celebrated and encouraged in these stories.
- A great way to supplement your current literature studies, or a great literature curriculum on their own!
- Just pennies per half hour show — A terrific investment in your children’s character and education.
- Great entertainment for road trips, bedtime, family time, any time.
- These MP3 audios are playable on any PC or Mac, or you can load to your iTunes or any MP3 compatible player. You can also burn these programs to your own Audio CDs.
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PS. If your family enjoys audio programs, then they (and you) will love this
entertaining and educational collection, curated with homeschool use in mind.
It’s a one of a kind audio library that you’ll use and treasure for years to come.
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