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We know that it\u2019s easy to hand kids screens to watch on long car journeys. We also know a lot of parents are looking for an alternative to this, so we\u2019ve compiled some audiobook options<\/p>\nWe know that it\u2019s easy to hand kids screens to watch on long car journeys. We also know a lot of parents are looking for an alternative to this, so we\u2019ve compiled some audiobook options<\/p>\n
Most kids need a little help and entertainment in the car – and that\u2019s normal. Books would be a great option, but if your kids are anything like mine, reading while travelling makes them travel sick. And no parent wants to be dealing with that.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why the members of my family are avid audiobook listeners. My kids love listening to them as they gaze out the windows with their imaginations whirring. And, just quietly, I like listening to most of them, too.<\/p>\n
I have listened to hundreds of audiobooks over the past nine years as a mum of two, family car journalist and founder of BabyDrive.com.au<\/a>. So, here are my family\u2019s top audiobook recommendations for your family to listen to in the car so you can get the kids off screens and their imaginations flowing.<\/p>\n Mummy Fairy and Me<\/p>\n This is one of our daughters\u2019 favourite audiobooks. The main character, Ella Brook, has a big secret \u2013 her mum can turn into a fairy. All she must do is close her eyes tight and say \u201cmarshmallow\u201d. Unfortunately, her mum\u2019s magic doesn\u2019t always go to plan and they end up on some crazy adventures that Ella must help resolve, all while keeping it secret from her \u201cnot best friend\u201d Zoe, who lives next door.<\/p>\n Written by Sophie Kinsella, Mummy Fairy and Me is lighthearted and fun listening that has my girls completely gripped. We love to imagine that I could turn into a fairy and have those adventures, too.<\/p>\n The 13-Storey Tree House<\/p>\n My family was first introduced to the hilarious 13-Storey Tree House book series when the mini books were a giveaway with our weekly supermarket shopping \u2013 and we still read them. My kids love the fun, silliness and creativity of the writer, Andy Griffiths, and the illustrator, Terry Denton, as the two main characters.<\/p>\n The tree house they live in is ever expanding with crazy quandaries and inventions until it ends up with 169 floors in the 13th book. Each story is full of whimsy like magic beans, boxing elephants, underpants, un-inventors, runaway prams, runaway bums and their interactions with Andy and Terry\u2019s demanding boss \u201cMr Big Nose\u201d.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a great listen for all ages.<\/p>\n Roald Dahl<\/p>\n We made our way through all the Roald Dahl books and loved them. Our favourites are:<\/p>\n George\u2019s Marvellous Medicine<\/p>\n This is my favourite. I even listen to it when the kids aren\u2019t in the car. A young boy called George concocts a magical potion made of household ingredients like floor polish, shampoo, engine oil etc. to cure his mean and nasty grandmother. As he gives her each dose it has some unexpected effects, making her grow to an enormous size. George\u2019s mischievous work creates chaos as his grandmother gets larger and results in a giant chicken on the farm too.<\/p>\n Matilda<\/p>\n All kids love the Matilda story whether they\u2019ve read the book or watched the movies. Kind, bright Matilda Wormwood has self-absorbed and neglectful parents, while at school the hideous and cruel principal Miss Trunchbull uses kids for shootout practice. As Matilda discovers she has magic powers, she uses her intelligence and newfound powers to escape her home life and gains revenge on Miss Trunchbull, finding comfort in a kind teacher called Miss Honey. A funny and gripping story for kids to listen to.<\/p>\n The Witches<\/p>\n Another fantastic and enthralling Roald Dahl story. An orphaned boy goes to live with his grandmother, a \u201cwitchophile\u201d. While staying in a hotel, the boy stumbles upon a witch convention. The leader of all the witches, the Grand High Witch, catches him and another boy, Bruno, turning them into mice. She plans to turn all the children in England into mice and it is up to him and his grandmother to stop them. The descriptions of the witches and their scabby scalps underneath their wigs will have your whole family gripped on car journeys.<\/p>\n James and the Giant Peach<\/p>\n This is a great story for children of all ages to listen to. James and the Giant Peach is a story of an orphan, James Henry Trotter, who escapes his cruel aunts and enters a magical giant peach. Inside the peach he befriends a group of talking insects and they head off on a magical adventure across the Atlantic Ocean inside the peach.<\/p>\n
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