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new audiobooks for kids
I was a kid, once. OK, I’ll admit it, I still am. So, I was thrilled to obtain copies of some new audiobooks for young readers (and listeners).
Harper Audio has just released 3 audiobooks of the poetry of Jack Prelutsky. The author sings his poetry on these hour-long recordings. Your grade schoolers (ages 4-8) will enjoy these humorous songs.
“The New Kid on the Block” features renditions like: “I’d rather take baths with a man-eating shark, or wrestle a lion alone in the dark, eat spinach and liver, pet ten porcupines, than tackle the homework my teacher assigns.”
My favorite is “A Pizza the Size of the Sun.” I was reminded of my favorite grade school ditty about gopher guts. This one has “Rat for lunch! Rat for lunch! Yum! Delicious! Munch munch munch! One by one or by the bunch- Rat, oh rat, oh rat for lunch.” Ah memories, the grosser the better.
“Something Big Has Been Here” has the whimsical “I am digging a hole in the ceiling in order to gaze at the sky, I began at the end of September, I intend to be done by July.”
These recordings will amuse your children and conjure up memories for you. That last one reminded me of a project my dad gave us back in ‘60’s. There was a spot in the back yard where they used to dump cinders from the old coal burning furnace. My dad gave us shovels and suggested that this would be the perfect spot to dig our tunnel to China.
We dug all summer long. Little boys digging up cinders found the going slow. Which gave us time for daydreams. By autumn we had cleared away a few inches of cinders as hard as iron. Dad must have been amused. We were. We spent many happy hours imagining the looks of shock on the other side of the world when we would come crawling out of our tunnel in China.
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For the Book Nook, I’m Vick Mickunas
