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Fairy Tales & Folklore Audiobooks
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Mooncakes is the lyrical story of a young girl who shares the special celebration of the Chinese Moon Festival with her parents. As they eat mooncakes, drink tea and watch the night sky together, Mama and Baba tell ancient tales of a magical tree that can never be cut down, the Jade Rabbit who came to live on the moon and one brave woman's journey to eternal life. With a gentle focus on the importance of family, Mooncakes is both a perfect book for parent and child to read together and an ideal choice for schools and libraries.
This is a paperback edition of a beloved and bestselling Orca title.
Kioko has been watching the matatus come and go for as long as he can remember. On his fifth birthday, he gets the chance to climb aboard one with his grandfather. As the matatu pulls away from the market, several village dogs chase after it. Kioko wonders why the dogs always bark and chase after matatus. When he asks his grandfather about it, his grandfather tells Kioko an entertaining tale about a dog, a goat and a sheep. Set in East Africa and inspired by a Kamba folktale, The Matatu is a colorful story filled with unexpected twists and turns.
Today, Maybe is a story about a little girl who is waiting for someone, a friend. She doesn't yet know who it will be. In a series of surprising and humorous encounters, several well-known characters of children's literature arrive at her door. But none of them are the one she is waiting for, and she graciously sends them all away.
With her bird to keep her company and hope filling her heart, weeks and then months pass as she waits and waits. When there is a scratch at the door one night, certainty fills the little girl's heart, and she opens the door to discover true friendship is indeed worth waiting for.
Casper Candlewacks is the only boy with any sense in a village full of idiots... the fourth and final instalment in the hilarious Casper Candlewacks series.Praise for Casper Candlewacks in Death by Pigeon:"a funny and engaging debut" JEREMY STRONGMost villages have an idiot but Casper's village is full of them. So being bright makes Casper something of an outsider.Luckily Casper has Lamp to him company - his less-than-bright best mate who is also a strangely ingenious inventor.Lamp's latest invention is a time-travelling toaster - or so he says. But can a toaster really transport them through space and time or will they both just end up as toast?The final tale in the hilarious Casper Candlewacks series. You'd have to be an idiot to miss it!
Yankel loves to tell stories, as long as they are someone else's. He does not see the hurt that his stories cause, the way they spread and change. Then the rabbi hands him a bag of feathers and tells him to place one on every doorstep in the village. Yankel is changed by what happens and finds himself with his best story yet, one of his very own.
Finn loves to swim with the seals in a secret cove. He arrives at the cove one day and rescues a young seal tangled in netting. Finn wishes the seal could live on land. That night the seals sing. "No good comes from seal songs," says Finn's father. When Sheila, a mysterious girl no one has ever seen before, appears on the cannery docks, the fisher folk are uneasy. They believe the newcomer is a magical selkie, a shape changer.
A delightful collection of seven short stories narrated by cats, by the brilliant Edith Nesbit, each of which sheds a new light on our relationship with our furry friends. Too Clever By Half, The White Persian, A Powerful Friend, A Silly Question, The Selfish Pussy, Meddlesome Pussy, Nine Lives
With the Tapestry series, best-selling author Henry H. Neff has created a wondrous realm, inspired by Irish mythology, that has captured the imaginations of listeners the world over. In this fourth installment, the forces of the demonic Prusias are threatening Rowan - and help from Astaroth is far from assured. With the world teetering on the brink of destruction, Max McDaniels must band together with his loyal comrades to fend off unimaginable disaster.
Otfried Preußler beschenkt uns mit einer neuen Geschichte aus der Welt seines Klassikers 'Der kleine Wassermann' - hier in einer liebevollen Hörspielumsetzung, u.a. mit Stefan Kaminski und Friedhelm Ptok.
Es ist Frühling! Die ersten wärmenden Sonnenstrahlen erreichen den Grund des Mühlenweihers. Auch der kleine Wassermann erwacht aus dem Winterschlaf. Neugierig und voller Tatendrang macht er sich nach dem Frühstück auf, um seine Umgebung zu erkunden. Ob seine Freunde noch alle da sind?
Harry Crewe, the Homelander orphan girl, is pleased with her new home. Life in Istan is certainly easy, but a voice in her ear whispers that the home of her heart is among the Hillfolk, among the descendants of Lady Aerin, who once wielded Gonturan, the Blue Sword.
Uncertain of the past, Aerin-sol, daughter of King Arlbeth, decides to forge her own future by challenging the lashing tongues of the dragon's fire. Aerin's proficiency as "the Dragon-slayer" sets her on a quest for the stolen Crown of Damar, believed to be in the hands of rebellious northerners who threaten to destroy the Damarian people and their home forever.
Sebastian, the alchemist's son, must face a new evil. An old enemy, a magician whose power lies in stealing souls, has reappeared in a new and cunning disguise. He is using an ancient spell book to bring about a terror beyond imagining. Once again, Pip and Tim brave sorcery and danger to help Sebastian as he pursues his enemies through the centuries.
