Books for Young Readers

Many parents are choosing audio books to entertain and educate their children. Whether it's in the car ride to and from school or on long trips during the holidays, parents are beginning to realize the benefits of audio books as a supplement to their child's reading. More and more teachers are also seeing the value of incorporating audio books into their classroom curriculum.

Listening to audiobooks can:

• Enrich a child's use of language and literacy
• Inspire the imagination as characters are magically brought to life
• Add entertainment
• Build vocabulary
• Expose children to new accents and dialects
• Build stronger connections between hearing and seeing
• Help with rhythm and diction
• Teach correct pronunciation by providing repetitive models
• Demonstrate proper sentence structure and correct grammar usage
• Increase fluency
• Make reading more appealing, especially to kids with reading difficulties
• Allow advanced students to explore a more diverse literary selection
• Provide an attractive introduction to those who find reading intimidating
• Encourage life-long reading
• Stimulate classroom participation and group involvement/inclusion
• Allow weaker readers to participate in group reading sessions
• Improve overall communication skills - speaking and writing
• Provide maximum reading comprehension when used as a supplement to a reading program
• Inspire curiosity about the narrator/author
• Build confidence and self-esteem
• Improve listening skills
• Provide an invaluable aid for special needs children/students
• Serve as a language acquisition tool for ESL and other foreign language studies

Our Selection

At Simply Audiobooks, we carry an extensive selection of classic and modern children's titles, including everything from Charlotte's Web to Peter Pan. Choose from such beloved authors as Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl and C.S. Lewis. With our unlimited audio book rental model, you and your kids can enjoy hours and hours of magical storytelling.

Now there are even more options at Simply Audiobooks. Your family can buy books on tape and CD or download a title as an audio file directly to your computer.

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