Two free audiobooks to download each week – starts this Friday 28th AprilMyOn from Renaissance is a huge collection of easy reading books (over 7000) currently available for free.
Each book can be read aloud (and you can change the speed as you need), there’s a dictionary, a zoom function, and you can search or browse by category.
No need to sign up for anything, just hit Read.
https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html
There’s also MyOn News which provides daily articles, again in an easy to read way, but again there are added extras: you can change the news article into French or Spanish, which can also be read to you; you can change the font size; view where the story is taking pace on a map; watch connected videos and slideshows
Actor @hughbon voices audio for Nosy Crow’s coronavirus book for children – listen to the audiobook here: https://t.co/WA5rueNKG2 pic.twitter.com/l8pi1uKU9W
— Nosy Crow (@NosyCrow) April 21, 2020
Audio versions of Three Uncanny Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson are available as free downloads from ASLS and read online (via YouTube).
Tale o Tod Lapraik read by James Robertson
Thrawn Janet read by Alan Bissett
The Bottle Imp read by Louise Welsh
See website for more information:
https://asls.arts.gla.ac.uk/StrangeTales.html
Update (June 14th): now available over the summer.
World Book Day have made 22 audiobooks available for free, from picture books to teen fiction.
Stories can be streamed on computer, phone or tablet.
https://www.worldbookday.com/world-of-stories/
Audible have released a list of free audiobooks suitable for listeners from wee ones to teenagers (and big kids). All stories are free to stream to computer, phone or tablet. No membership or sign up required.
Titles are available in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Chinese.
NosyCrow are one of the publishers who have free material available on their website, including a weekly audiobook in instalments, daily picture books on YouTube, craft ideas and activity sheets, daily poems on Instagram and Twitter.
They also have lots of videos on YouTube, including author readings, character illustrations, Q&As, nursery rhymes and origami guides.
See their website for further details
https://nosycrow.com/blog/free-books-activities-and-resources-from-nosy-crow/
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