Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse

Heidi

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Johanna Spyri
• Narrated By Flo Gibson
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This beloved Swiss children's tale has been beloved by generations of children and adults. Orphan Heidi's life in the Alps with her grandfather, Peter the goatherd, and her friendship with Klara, her invalid playmate, is both poignant and heartwarming.

Charlotte's Web

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 35 mins)
• By E. B. White
• Narrated By E. B. White
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Since its publication in 1952, Charlotte's Web has become one of America's best-loved children's books. For fifty years, this timeless tale of how a little girl named Fern, with the help of a friendly spider, saved her pig Wilbur from the usual fate of nice fat little pigs has continued to warm the hearts of readers everywhere. Now this classic, a 1953 Newbery Honor book, comes to life in a delightful unabridged recording, read lovingly by the author himself.

The Secret Garden

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Narrated By Johanna Ward
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Mary Lennox, a spoiled, ill-tempered, and unhealthy child, comes to live with her reclusive uncle in Misselthwaite Manor after the death of her parents. With the help of a robin, Mary finds the door to a secret garden, neglected and hidden for years. When she decides to restore the garden in secret, the story becomes a charming journey into the places of the heart, where faith restores health, flowers refresh the spirit, and the magic of the garden brings happiness to Mary.

Black Beauty: An Audible Original Drama

• ORIGINAL (4 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Anna Sewell, R. D. Carstairs - adaptation
• Narrated By Samuel West, Samantha Bond, Tamzin Outhwaite, and others

Framed as a first-person narrative from the eponymous horse, this much-loved family classic follows Black Beauty's journey from a well-born colt to a painfully overworked cab horse. Brimming with vivid detail and relatable characters, each chapter of Black Beauty's long and varied life communicates an important message about kindness, sympathy and understanding.

The Railway Children

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 3 mins)
• By E. Nesbit
• Narrated By Cori Samuel
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In this classic children's book by E. Nesbit, three children are suddenly uprooted from their happy suburban life to move to the country with their mother. Their new house, "Three Chimneys", is near a railway line, and Roberta (Bobbie), Peter and Phyllis (Phil), find amusement in watching the trains and waving to the passengers. They become friendly with Albert Perks, the station porter, and with the Old Gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15 down train. The children get involved in all kinds of good deeds, while their mother is busy writing children books.

A Little Princess

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Narrated By Justine Eyre
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Written by British-born author Frances Hodgson Burnett and first published in 1905, A Little Princess tells the story of young Sara Crewe, privileged daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant. All the other girls at Miss Minchin's school treat Sara as if she truly were a princess. But when Captain Crewe's fortune is sadly lost, Sara's luck changes. Suddenly she is treated no better than a scullery maid.

The Secret Garden (BBC Children's Classics)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Narrated By Harriet Walter, Beryl Reid, full cast

Harriet Walter and Beryl Reid star in this full-cast adaptation of the much-loved children's classic. When spoilt young orphan Mary Lennox is brought back from India to live in her uncle's house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds the blunt ways of the staff at Misselthwaite Manor an unpleasant shock. Bored and miserable, it seems as though life in England will be awful. But Misselthwaite has hidden delights, and when Mary begins to discover them, nothing is the same again.

The Wind in the Willows

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Kenneth Grahame
• Narrated By Michael Hordern
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Here is a timeless tale of waterside Britain that has been loved by generations of children and acclaimed as a classic. The story of Mole, Ratty, Badger, and Toad, and their escapades, whether messing about on the river or poop-pooping in Toad's shiny new car, cannot fail to enchant.

Little Women: Classics Deluxe Edition

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Louisa May Alcott, Jane Smiley (introduction)
• Narrated By Christina Ricci
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Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories, transcending the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young listeners. The beloved story of the March girls is a classic American feminist novel, reflecting the tension between cultural obligation and artistic and personal freedom.

But which of the four March sisters to love best? For every listener must have their favorite. Independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth; pretty, kind Meg; or precocious and beautiful Amy, the baby of the family?

Anne of Green Gables

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Narrated By Rachel McAdams
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With all of the pluck and charm of its eponymous young hero, Rachel McAdams (The Notebook, Spotlight, Midnight in Paris) delivers a spectacular reading of Montgomery's beloved bildungsroman. In moments both funny and bittersweet, McAdams' voice is imbued with the spark that has made Anne a much-loved symbol of individualism and cheer for over a century.

The World's Worst Children 2

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 6 mins)
• By David Walliams
• Narrated By David Walliams, Morgana Robinson, Nitin Ganatra, and others

The brilliant follow-up to David Walliams' best seller The World's Worst Children! Ten more stories about a brand-new gang of hilariously horrible kids from everyone's favourite children's author. If you thought you had heard about the world's worst children already, you're in for a rather nasty shock. The beastly boys and gruesome girls in this book are even ruder, even more disgusting and WORSE than you could ever imagine!

Oliver Twist

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Charles Dickens
• Narrated By Martin Jarvis
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A workhouse orphan, Oliver experiences the terror and brutality of the criminal underworld. His companions, a thief, a whore, a pickpocket, and a fence, are destined for gruesome ends, but Oliver emerges unscathed from the darkness of the underworld.

Watership Down

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Richard Adams
• Narrated By Ralph Cosham
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Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren; he felt sure of it. They had to leave immediately. So begins a long and perilous journey of survival for a small band of rabbits. As the rabbits skirt danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band, its humorous characters, and its compelling culture, complete with its own folk history and myths.

Wave Me Goodbye

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Jacqueline Wilson
• Narrated By Amy Enticknap
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Award-winning, best-selling and beloved Jacqueline Wilson tells the fascinating, moving story of a girl sent away from home as an evacuee during the Second World War. September, 1939. As the Second World War begins, 10-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train with her schoolmates. She doesn't know where she's going, or what's going to happen to her when she gets there. All she has been told is that she's going on 'a little holiday'.

Famous Five: Five On A Treasure Island: Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Enid Blyton
• Narrated By Jan Francis

Julian, Dick and Anne are spending the holidays with their tomboy cousin George and her dog, Timothy. One day, George takes them to explore nearby Kirrin Island, with its rocky little coast and old ruined castle on the top. Over on the island, they make a thrilling discovery, which leads them deep into the dungeons of Kirrin Castle on a dangerous adventure. Who - and what - will they find there?

The Animals of Farthing Wood

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Colin Dann
• Narrated By Paul Whitehouse, Esther Coles
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Farthing Wood is being bulldozed and a drought means the animals no longer have anywhere to live or drink. Fox, Badger, Toad, Tawny Owl, Mole and the other animals band together and leave their ancestral home and set off to move to a far-away nature reserve. Their journey is full of adventure and fraught with disasters: a fire, a storm, a treacherous river crossing and a hunt. The animals must unite in adversity and in doing so they learn about each other's habits and limitations.

The Midnight Gang

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 9 mins)
• By David Walliams
• Narrated By David Walliams, Peter Serafinowicz, Morwenna Banks, and others
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Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for...the Midnight Gang. That is when their adventures are just beginning.... When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital and is greeted by a terrifying-looking porter. Things go from bad to worse when he meets the wicked matron in charge of the children's ward.... But Tom is about to embark on the most thrilling journey of a lifetime!

The Complete Chronicles of Narnia: The Classic BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations

• ORIGINAL (15 hrs and 11 mins)
• By C. S. Lewis
• Narrated By Maurice Denham, Full Cast

C.S. Lewis's acclaimed and universally loved novels spring to life in these spellbinding full-cast BBC dramatisations. Anyone who's visited Narnia wants to go back again, and these radio dramas make for a hugely entertaining first-time or return journey, with a cast including Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham, Richard Griffiths, Martin Jarvis, Sylvester McCoy, John Sessions, Fiona Shaw and Timothy Spall.