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World of Stories Audiobooks
Welcome to World Book Day’s World of Stories.
Enjoy our brand new, FREE audiobooks while you get ready for World Book Day 2021!
Whether you’re reading together with the family, or listening in your own time, find your next audiobook to tune into here!
Please note that audiobooks published by Penguin and Hachette will expire after 1 month, and all other audiobooks will be taken down after 6 months. We will add new audiobooks to replace these, so keep checking back!
Picture Books
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We love you, Hugless Douglas! Hugless Douglas is looking for a best friend in this fourth adventure in the hugely popular series. When Hugless Douglas goes on a best friend hunt with Flossie the sheep, everyone seems to have a best friend except him! Perhaps what Douglas is looking for is right under his nose… This is the fourth adventure in the hugely popular series, which has sold over 1.4 million copies in 26 languages to date. David Melling is one of the UK’s best-loved author-illustrators and his stories offer an endearing sense of what it is like to be a small child learning about the world. Listen to the full audiobook here.
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Mindfulness for Children A practical and interactive audiobook for five to seven-year-olds, read by Sheridan Smith. This collection of 20 interactive exercises will teach children the basics of practising mindfulness – while also making it fun and accessible! Written by a leading child-development psychologist and mindfulness expert and brought to life with fun sound effects, we learn about calming, focus, bedtime, waking up and kindness. Your child will be encouraged to play along as they listen, using their imagination to focus on the here and now. We know little minds can be busy and easily distracted, so you can start by doing as little as one minute at a time. Once this is established you can then build up to two, three and five minutes. Whatever your child’s personality, these breathing exercises, visualisations, calming games and meditations will help them manage worries, encourage focus and kindness and make bedtime and waking up that bit more fun.
Young Fiction
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Animal Ark: Hamster in a Hamper Animal Ark is the veterinary surgery run by Mandy Hope’s parents. If there are animals to be protected or looked after, Mandy is always there to help. It’s the school holidays! Mandy’s best friend, James, is given Henry, the hamster to look after. James and Mandy are delighted – until Henry disappears in very mysterious circumstances. Hamster in a Hamper is one of the best-loved Animal Ark stories.
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Boot: Small Robot, Big Adventure When toy robot, Boot, wakes up at a scrapyard, it has no idea how it got there and why it isn’t with its owner, Beth. It only has two and a half glitchy memories, but it knows it was loved, which means something important to humans. Boot soon realises its emotions make it different to other robots, who just function and don’t think. Boot is scared but tries to be brave, which is hard when its screen keeps showing a wobbly, worried face. Luckily Boot meets Noke and Red – other ‘advanced’ robots who have learned to survive in secret. With new friends by its side, Boot is determined to find Beth and the gang set off on a dangerous adventure. Everything Boot thought it knew about the world is changing, and things aren’t as simple as it remembers . . .
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Fizzy and Bandit A fun, heartwarming and humorous story, ideal for children aged 6 and above. Fizzy wants a dog. Not just any dog though – a golden dog with a black nose and very curly hair. So when a dog called Bandit who looks just like this appears in her neighbour’s garden, Fizzy will stop at nothing to keep him – even if it means hiding poor Bandit in the laundry basket… This delightful comedy from Ireland’s Children’s Laureate Sarah Crossan is perfect for children who are learning to read by themselves and for Key Stage 1.
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Hotel Flamingo Welcome to Hotel Flamingo: the sunniest hotel in town! When young Anna inherits a dilapidated once-grand hotel from her Great Aunt Mathilde, she’s determined to restore it to its former glory. But this is no ordinary hotel – all of her staff and guests are animals! Anna soon rises to the challenge. Whether it’s a flamingo, a penguin or a hippo knocking at the door, Anna is ready to welcome them all – with the help of her trusty sidekicks T Bear the doorman, Squeak the friendly elevator mouse, and Lemmy the lemur receptionist … As she soon finds out, though, running an animal hotel is no easy task. Can Anna make Hotel Flamingo a success once more?
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Ladybird Audio Adventures: The Frozen World In this adventure Otto and Missy are off to explore the Frozen World. Setting course for the Artic and Antarctica they discover penguins, orcas and seals and a whole lot of snow! Now if they can just figure out how to get the heating going in Otto’s teleporter they’ll be able to get back home!
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Mark Anchovy: Pizza Detective Colin Kingsley is a pizza delivery boy with a twist. He’s actually an aspiring detective. But in sleepy Rufflington-on-Sea, there are no cases to solve – until the Golden Spatula League come calling. The world’s premier agency for ‘caterer-detectives’, run by children, the G.S.L. have been dazzled by Colin’s freakish memory skills. To join their ranks, Colin – codenamed ‘Mark Anchovy’ – must fly to Rome to track down a valuable stolen painting, titled, ‘Girl With A Squirrel’. The chief suspect: Big Alan Fresco, notorious art thief and pizza addict. It’s the toughest, most pizza-ry mystery the G.S.L. have ever encountered.
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The Chocolate Unicorn Olive Brown is scared of just about everything. She is a worrier and what she needs is some courage. Well, one day Grandpa gives her a little box of magic and inside is a special chocolate unicorn who is about to show Olive what it truly means to be brave…
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Ultimate Football Series: Rashford This is the story of Marcus Rashford – one of the brightest young stars on the Manchester United books and future England goalscoring legend. From tough beginnings in Manchester, Rashford has proven to be one of the Premier League’s shining stars, scoring twice on his senior debut, scoring in his first Premier League match and scoring on his England debut in 2016. The future can only get better!
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Tiger Troubles All Sloth Bear wants to do is play with Porcupine but it’s nap time in the jungle and all the other animals are sleeping. So she throws a guava at Porcupine’s tree to wake him up and SPLAT! THUD! BUMP! Little Tiger gets woken up too! And Little Tiger is rather hungry…
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Mina Mistry Investigates: The Case of the Disgusting School Dinners Introducing schoolgirl detective Mina Mistry! Being at school is boring when you know you’re going to be something cool like a Private Investigator. Until then, Mina’s going to practise for her future… Aren’t school dinners a bit strange? Chicken nuggets? Again? On pizza? Covered in chocolate? Nobody wants to live on lettuce and broccoli, but children are losing teeth over this! This needs investigating. This looks like a case for Mina Mistry.
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Sherlock Holmes: Silver Blaze An adapted and easy version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective story, made accessible for a younger generation to learn the story before expanding their literary horizons. Ideal for children aged 8-12, readers can then go on to explore more audiobooks in the 30-book series and follow the world’s most famous amateur detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his humble biographer, Watson.
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The Secret Explorers and the Lost Whales In The Lost Whales, marine life expert Connor needs to use his underwater expertise to help save a pod of humpback whales that have lost their way. Along with space expert Roshni, he sets out in a submarine to search for a way to steer the whales back on track, but encounters unexpected problems along the way, including lost baby whales and a fleet of boats. Will The Secret Explorers manage to succeed in their mission?
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Pride and Prejudice An adapted and easy version of Jane Austen’s literary classic, made accessible for a younger generation to learn the story and before expanding their literary horizons. Ideal for children aged 8-12, readers can then go on to explore seven more audiobooks in the series and follow Jane Austen’s renowned heroines on their path to self-discovery and true love.
Fiction
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A Sprinkle of Sorcery The family curse has been lifted and the Widdershins sisters: Betty, Fliss and Charlie are free to leave the misty prison isle of Crowstone. But when a mysterious girl arrives at the Poacher’s Pocket with a pocketful of hagstones, and accompanied by a will-o’-the-wisp, it seems another adventure has landed on their doorstep. And when Charlie goes missing, it’s up to Betty and Fliss to journey through misty marches, past wisp catchers and on to a secret island that doesn’t exist on any map…
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Cloudburst: A Jack Courtney Adventure Jack Courtney has lived in the UK his whole life. But this summer his parents are travelling to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a gorilla conference, and they’ve promised to take Jack and his friends with them. When his parents go missing in the rainforest, abducted by mercenaries, nobody seems to have any answers. Jack is pretty sure that it’s got something to do with the nearby tantalum mines, but he needs to prove it. Along with Amelia and Xander, Jack must brave the jungle to save his parents. Standing in his way is a member of his own family – Caleb Courtney. There are western gorillas, forest elephants and hippos. But there are also bandits, mercenaries and poachers. The three friends will need their wits about them if they are not only to save Jack’s parents, but their own lives too.
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Jungledrop Eleven-year-old twins, Fox and Fibber, have been rivals for as long as they can remember. Only one of them will inherit the family fortune and so a race is afoot to save the dwindling Petty-Squabble empire and win the love of their parents. But when the twins are whisked off to Jungledrop, a magical Unmapped Kingdom in charge of conjuring our world’s weather, things get wildly out of hand. An evil harpy called Morg is on the loose. And if she finds the long-lost Forever Fern before the twins, both Jungledrop and our world will crumble. Suddenly, Fox and Fibber find themselves on an incredible adventure in a glow-in-the-dark rainforest full of golden panthers, gobblequick trees and enchanted temples. But, with the fate of two worlds in their hands, will the twins be able to work together for once to defeat Morg and her dark magic?
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Running on the Roof of the World Join 12-year-old Tash and her best friend Sam in a story of adventure, survival and hope, set in the vivid Himalayan landscape of Tibet and India. Filled with friendship, love and courage, this young girl’s thrilling journey to save her parents is an ideal read for children aged 9-12. There are two words that are banned in Tibet. Two words that can get you locked in prison without a second thought. I watch the soldiers tramping away and call the words after them. ‘Dalai Lama.’ Tash has to follow many rules to survive in Tibet, a country occupied by Chinese soldiers. But when a man sets himself on fire in protest and soldiers seize Tash’s parents, she and her best friend Sam must break the rules. They are determined to escape Tibet – and seek the help of the Dalai Lama himself in India. And so, with a backpack of Tash’s father’s mysterious papers and two trusty yaks by their side, their extraordinary journey across the mountains begins.
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The Ship of Shadows Aleja is a dreamer who longs for a life of magic and adventure. So when a mysterious ship arrives in her Spanish harbour city, crewed by a band of ruthless women, Aleja knows it’s sailed right out of a legend. And it wants her. But life aboard the Ship of Shadows is more than even she bargained for. It will take all of Aleja’s strength and skill to gain the trust of her fellow pirates – and discover what they are risking everything to find….