Audiobooks by Kathi Appelt

Maybe a Fox

AUDIOBOOK WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL PARENTING PRODUCT AWARD (NAPPA)! Worlds collide in a spectacular way when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking, and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub, and what happens when one of the sisters disappears forever.Sylvie and Jules, Jules and Sylvie. Better than just sisters, better than best friends, they'd be identical twins if only they'd been born in the same year. And if only Sylvie wasn't such a fast-faster than fast-runner. But Sylvie is too fast, and when she runs to the river they're not supposed to go anywhere near to throw a wish rock just before the school bus comes on a snowy morning, she runs so fast that no one sees what happens...and no one ever sees her again. Jules is devastated, but she refuses to believe what all the others believe, that-like their mother-her sister is gone forever. At the very same time, in the shadow world, a shadow fox is born-half of the spirit world, half of the animal world. She too is fast-faster than fast-and she senses danger. She's too young to know exactly what she senses, but she knows something is very wrong. And when Jules believes one last wish rock for Sylvie needs to be thrown into the river, the human and shadow worlds collide. Told in alternate voices-one Jules's, the other the fox's-Kathi Appelt and Alison McGhee tell the searingly beautiful tale of one small family's moment of heartbreak, a moment that unfolds into one that is epic, mythic, shimmering, and most of all, hopeful.

Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt (Author), Alison McGhee (Narrator)

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Mogie: The Heart of the House

Give that dog a puddle and he’d splash. Give him a whistle and he’d roll over. Give him a rule and he’d break it. One day a passel of puppies was born. Each puppy was designated for a Very Important Job, like Service Dog, or Search and Rescue Dog, or Groomed for the Show Ring Dog. Each puppy, that is, except Mogie. Mogie was a ball-chasing, tail-wagging, moon-howling pup. Not the kind of pup for any of those jobs! But there is a place that is just right for this rambunctious pup: the Ronald McDonald House, the place where sick children and their families can stay while they undergo longterm treatment. A place with children NEEDS a ball-chasing, tall-wagging, moon-howling pup. And there's one little boy in particular who needs Mogie. As for Mogie? He's about to prove he's the best of the liter! Based on a true story, nothing has ever proved more inspiring to the critically ill children at the Ronald McDonald House than the introduction of a real life puddle splashing, ball chasing, rule breaking pup named Mogie--who always knows what a sick kiddo needs more than anything.

Kathi Appelt (Author), Laurel Kathleen (Narrator)

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The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp

Raccoon brothers Bingo and J’miah are the newest recruits of the Official Sugar Man Swamp Scouts—a big responsibility, yes, but rest assured: they are indeed ready to shoulder this duty. You might even say they’ve been waiting for this their whole lives. Because the opportunity to serve the Sugar Man—the massive creature who delights in delicious sugar cane and magnanimously rules over the swamp—is an honor, yes it is. And the rest of the critters in the swamp rely heavily on the intel of these hardworking Scouts. Twelve-year-old Chap Brayburn, on the other hand, is not a member of any such organization. But he does know the canebrake lullaby, and how to fry a sugar pie like nobody’s business. Plus, he loves the swamp something fierce. He’ll do anything to protect it. And if he can find a lost deSoto which may or may not contain a photo of the maybe-but-not-definitely extinct Ivory Billed Woodpecker, that'll sure help. Well, good for that. Because Jaeger Stitch just so happens to have her eye on Sugar Man Swamp. Jaeger Stitch also just so happens to be a world-class alligator wrestler. Her plans are to turn the swamp into an Alligator World Wrestling Arena and Theme Park. Mind you, this is one alligator wrestler who is used to getting what she wants. And, no, the troubles don't end there. There is also a gang of wild feral hogs on the march, headed straight toward them all. The Scouts are ready. All they have to do is wake up the Sugarman. Problem is, no one's been able to wake that fellow up in a decade or four. Wake up, Sugar Man! Wake up!

Kathi Appelt (Author), Kathi Appelt (Narrator)

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Keeper

To ten-year-old Keeper, this moon is her chance to fix all that has gone wrong...and so much has gone wrong. But she knows who can make things right again: Meggie Marie, her mermaid mother who swam away when Keeper was just three. A blue moon calls the mermaids to gather at the sandbar, and that's exactly where she is headed -- in a small boat, in the middle of the night, with only her dog, BD (Best Dog), and a seagull named Captain. When the riptide pulls at the boat, tugging her away from the shore and deep into the rough waters of the Gulf of Mexico, panic sets in, and the fairy tales that lured her out there go tumbling into the waves. Maybe the blue moon isn't magic and maybe the sandbar won't sparkle with mermaids and maybe -- Oh, no..."Maybe" is just too difficult to bear. Kathi Appelt follows up to her New York Times bestseller, The Underneath, with a tale that will pull right at your very core -- stronger than moon currents -- capturing the crash and echo of the waves and the dark magic of the ocean.

Kathi Appelt (Author), Kathi Appelt (Narrator)

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The Underneath

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road. An abandoned calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the achingly lonely howl of a chained up, abused hound dog deep in the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise Sabine and Puck there because Gar-Face, the man living inside the house, will surely use her or her kittens as alligator bait should he find them. But, they are safe in the underneath...as long as they stay in the underneath. Kittens, however, are notoriously curious creatures. And one kitten's one moment of curiosity sets off a chain of events that is astonishing, remarkable, and enormous in its meaning. In the tradition of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers, Kathi Appelt spins a harrowing yet keenly sweet tale about the power of love (and its opposite, hate), the fragility of happiness -- and the importance of making good on your promises.

Kathi Appelt (Author), Gabra Zackman (Narrator)

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