How Audiobooks Can Be A Rewarding Experience For Your Kids

What’s the one thing that your kids have started doing more ever since the whole lockdown and social distancing started? Okay- apart from handwashing I mean! 

For my kids, it’s got to be quality reading time. I was raising a child who liked to read thankfully, but I noticed with the distractions around her, that habit was going for a toss and wasn’t a part of her everyday ritual. She was getting bored, I could clearly see and that gave me ideas for a change of pace. 

Learning is of three types- Auditory, kinesthetic and visual. If your child gets bored with books but wants to listen to stories or if you are too tied up to tell them a story, you’ve got audiobooks to the rescue! Be it during sleepy afternoons, or for a fun bedtime cuddle with the kids, as a parent, I have personally loved audiobooks. 

Here’s how audiobooks are great for your kids:

• Audiobooks work wonders on your child’s pronunciation and modulation– raising them to be li’l storytellers themselves. 
• Visual support is great-but when kids are tuned to listen to stories, their imagination knows no limits. Admit it- we’ve all made a sketch of the BFG or Peter Pan on our minds long before we saw how they actually looked, right?!
• Easy maintenance and helps you on-the-go (when you begin your travel in the post-COVID world, that is!) 
• Improves your child’s auditory perception and comprehension skills. Builds focus in the process. 
• Helps them go slightly beyond their reading level. ‘Coz listening to a story is easier and more fun than reading it, right?!
• It is also one of our favourite options to tuck into bed and tune into an audiobook that makes it a perfect bedtime routine for us!  

As a big fan of audiobooks myself, I can’t recommend the Storytel app enough for my kids to get them to fall in love with books too! If you are a parent, considering audiobooks for your kids– here is my advice- go for it! 

Storytel, a popular streaming subscription service houses more than 1 lakh audiobooks and e-books and around 8000+ books for the littlest readers! Classified age-wise as well as spanning over a wide range of categories to suit all your moods and interests, the Storytel app is available on iOS and Android devices. Also, with the Kids Reading Mode feature you can enable with a parental pin, you are assured with a filter that allows parents to let their children go exploring within the app and tune into their favourites. 

Scroll down to bookmark some of the best audiobooks for your kids, curated for #KSPBookClub. And to receive weekly recommendations of the best books for kids make sure you sign on to KSP Book Club Membership.

Best Audiobooks For Kids (0-3 Years)

1. What We’ll Build- Oliver Jeffers

2. The Great Big Treasury Of Beatrix Potter – Beatrix Potter

3. One Night In The Zoo-Judith Kerr

4. The Singing Mermaid- Julia Donaldson

5. Three Little Monkeys- Quentin Blake 

6. Little Hoo Has The Flu- Brenda Ponnay

7. Fix It Duck-Jez Alborough

8. Thankful- Eileen Spinelli

Best Audiobooks For Kids (3-6 Years)

1. Peter Pan J M Barrie 

2. Zot The Dog Series- Ivan Jones 

3. The Tooth Fairy Legend- John Arthur Long 

4. Freddie’s Amazing Bakery- Harriet Whitehorn 

5. How To Be Good(ish) – Karen McCombie

6. Winter Stories- Enid Blyton 

7. Alice In Wonderland- Lewis Carroll

8. Silly Stories About Vegetables- Paul Cook 

Best Audiobooks For Kids (6-9 Years)

1. Kenny & The Book Of Beasts- Tony DiTerlizzi

2. The Secrets Of Billy Bright- Susie Day 

3. Dorothy & The Wizard Of Oz- L Frank Baum 

4. Malory Towers- Enid Blyton

5. Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens 

6. The Hound Of The Baskervilles- Arthur Conan Doyle 

7. Half A World Away- Cynthia Kadohata

8. From The Desk Of Zoe Washington- Janae Marks

Best Audiobooks For Kids (9-12 Years)

1. Henry & The Chalk Dragon- Jennifer Trafton

2. Saucy-Cynthia Kadohata

3. Nancy Drew Series- Carolyn Keene

4. Trapped!- James Ponti

5. A Sprinkle Of Sorcery- Michelle Harrison

6. Forgotten Girl- India Hill 

7. Outlaws- Jen Calonita

8. Shakespeare For Every Day Of The Year- Allie Esiri

Go ahead, and access the Storytell app right here. Also, stay tuned for some fabulous offers from Storytel, exclusive for Kidsstoppress readers. 

This post is written in association with Storytel.