Tuesday, February 7, 2012

New Read-Along Kits

We've just gotten in some new juvenile audiobook kits at the library.  These recordings are sure to be pleasing to the ear while being educational and entertaining.  Check out some of these new titles:


RRRALPH Narrator Andrew Watts cleverly describes how Ralph the dog can talk, appropriately saying words such as "roof," "rough," "bark," and "wolf."


Wonder Horse: The True Story of the World's Smartest Horse This fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely as narrator Kevin R. Free tells the tale with loving care.


The Django A young boy named Jean has an imaginary friend, Django, who keeps getting him in trouble and eventually is sent away, but whenever Jean plays the banjo he continues to feel close to Django. Inspired by the life of jazz musician Django Reinhardt; includes facts about his life, which includes one of his hit songs following the story narration.

Who Stole Mona Lisa? Skilled narrator, Barbar Rosenblat voices the famous Mona Lisa painting as she is stolen from the Louvre in Paris and her terror of her unknown future.



Here Comes The Garbage Barge! In the spring of 1987, the town of Islip, New York, with no place for its 3,168 tons of garbage, loads it on a barge that sets out on a 162-day journey along the east coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, down to Belize, and back again, in search of a place willing to accept and dispose of its very smelly cargo.  Who would have known that one town could accumulate so much trash?

Interrupting Chicken This 2011 Caldecott Honor Book is now available as a read-along.  Papa is reading Little Red Chicken bedtime stories, but Little Red keeps interrupting and making up is own stories in this hillarious bedtime tale.

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