Free Audio Books Online For Children

Introduction

This is a listing of sites that legally offer free audio books for children.

There is a listing of ebooks for children to read at Free Children's Books Online.

This page is geared towards younger children.  I recently added a page of site listings for Free Teen and Young Adult Books Online for older children.

All of these sites listed have content that is legal for them to distribute.  If you find that any site listed is offering content that can not be legally transferred, please let me know in the comments below.

This list is not comprehensive and if you know of any other sites please post in the comments below or at our forums.

A comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening can be found on these pages:

• 446 Places For Free Books Online

• 91 Places for Free Audio Books Online

Libraries are also an excellent source for reading and listening materials for children.  To find out more information on your local library, the links here may help:  Library Information

There are 16 other book genre  pages here at Gizmo's covering other various popular book genres and offering links to free online books listed here:  Book Genre Pages

Children's Free Audio Books

AlvieTheLittleBrownBurro has seven Alvie stories to read online or download in MP3.

AmazingAdventureSeries offers the children story "June the Prune" for free reading online.  The story can also be heard by pressing the audio button at the top of the page.

AudioBooksForFree (Childrens) has a few hundred audio books available for free download as MP3s.  However, the quality of the free downloads is 8kbps, which is bearable.  Higher quality recordings cost money.  No sorting for age groups.  The books appear to be mostly for older children.

Beenleigh State School  of Queensland, Australia has a large collection of stories to read online with audio built in.

BookBox  has 18 audio books available in a variety of languages available for download in MP3.

BooksShouldBeFree has a good collection of Childrens and Fairy Tales audio books available for download in MP3 (64kbps) format.  Files are downloaded in Zip format and when extracted are separated into chapters.

BritishCouncil has a very nice collection of flash animated song and audio read-a-long stories.  Games and other activities also available.

CinnamonBear is a British site featuring the adventures of Paddy O'Cinnamon available for download in MP3 format.  The quality is very good, but the stories are divided into separate downloads of small sections.  A nice unusual listing though.

HighlightsKids has 9 books available for listening and viewing online through a flash player.  The site also has games, puzzles, reading stories and science experiments and stories for children.

Johnnie's Story Page most of these are links offsite, but it is a very nice collection and  well sorted for beginning and more advanced readers.  All the ones I looked at were flash presentations and also had audio available.

KidsNurseryRhymes has singalong nursery rhymes for online listening and disco sing alongs for download in MP3 format.

KiddieRecordsWeekly has a very interesting collection of stories.  These were recorded on records during the mid 1940s to the early 1950s.  Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood productions on major record labels and featured big time celebrities and composers of the day.  There are around 250 recordings available for download in high quality MP3 format or they can be streamed.  Some are available as one download, but most are available in several segments. (See KidsAudioBooks {below} for easier download).

KidsAudioBooks Very good site which lists many of the same records listed at KiddieRecordsWeekly, but has them all available in one download.  Also has some old time radio shows as well as a small collection of coloring pages (images to be saved) and reading books (pdf download).

KidsEnglishBooks offers 6 free downloadable picture books with matching audio as well as 3 fairy tales in pdf and audio for free download.

KidsLearnOutLoud has about 160 free audio books and podcasts available for listening or download in various formats (usually MP3).  These are links to other sites so the format and quality can vary, but the few I listened to were of very good quality.  Some interesting entries here.

Kindersite offer a good number of stories in flash for reading and listening online as well as lullabies, music and games for younger children.

Librivox (Childrens) has a good collection of childrens audio books available for download in MP3 (64kbps or 128kbps) or ogg.  Quality of recordings is very good, but the downloads are chapter by chapter.

LightUpYourBrain has 20 childrens audio books available for download in MP3 or for listening online.  All are read by Chuck Brown.  There is also a large collection of childrens games available at the site.

Lit2Go has a large collection of audio books and poems, which appear to be almost all for children of varying ages (Titles).    Quality of recordings was very good.

Mightybook is a pay site, but it offers a good size collection of very interesting and free flash animation storybooks, story songs, Beatrix Potter stories and more.  I thought the music and art section, which combines classical music and art,  was a very good idea.  All of the stories and songs are audio and print for read-a-long.

OnlineAudioStories has close to 100 audio stories for free listening.  Most are short poems, but there are a few longer stories mixed in. 

Robert Munsch has about 60 books by Robert Munsch (and read by him) available for download in MP3 format. 

SillyBooks has nine animated read along books for viewing online.  These are flash animations and are for those learning to read.

Speakaboos has about 100 books available for listening and viewing online through a flash viewer.  Downloads are available for a fee, though some are available free after registering.  They also have a Play area with arts and crafts projects.

StoriesNow has 4 famous children stories that were originally performed live at the lux theater for radio broadcast.  the commercials and other extraneous material have been eliminated so that the story flows through.  These are based on the movie versions of the stories and have some of the stars from the movie starring in the radio braodcast.

StoryLineOnline has audio books available for online listening and viewing through a flash player.  There are also activities associated with the book available online or for download in pdf.  This site is a program of the Screen Actors Guild and features well known actors as the readers.

Storynory has a good size collection of interesting children stories.  There are original stories as well as classic novels and fairy tales.  The educational page has Greek myths and Robin Hood stories and some others.  The Junior stories page has books for those just learning to read.  Downloads are very good quality MP3. 

TheStoryHome  has several free audio stories for listening to online.  These are mostly classics, with some original works.

WiredForBooks has a nice collection of Beatrix Potter books as well as a few others for online reading and also available in audio. 

WorldofTales  a collection of folktales, fairy tales and fables from around the world available as audio.