My daughter had just finished her fourth audiobook the last time I posted. It is now July 7, and her tally just keeps growing.
The two longest books she’s listened to are the first two volumes in the Harry Potter series: Sorcerer’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets. Both are nearly ten hours in the Jim Dale-narrated editions.
She absolutely loved both of them. Sorcerer’s Stone kept her rapt on the way to and from Myrtle Beach. Chamber of Secrets held her attention through the movie debacles last week.
I was so impressed with her audiobook consumption that I purchased her an mp3 player. Now I can load audiobooks more efficiently, and we don’t have to wait for a Playaway version of every book she wants to listen to. A bonus? I can put songs on it as well, and she’s been rocking out to “Can’t Stop the Feeling” (Trolls) and “I Just Want to Celebrate” (Madagascar 2).
Thus far, her favorite new audiobook is Captain Underpants. She loves Dev Kilbey’s Dog Man comic, and when she heard the dramatically rendered audio for Captain Underpants, she flipped. She’s listened to it at least five times. Today at the library, we got the book so she could read along as she listened.
If she starts running around in just her underwear, I’ll know we’ve gone too far.
Learning Together 