Hey all! Just thought I’d take a quick second to share with you a website I came across called Storynory. Awhile ago one of my fav websites, Zrecs (yes I constantly plug them but honestly I’m not being paid, they’re just that good), got me hooked on the idea of audio stories when they mentioned that their daughter listens to audio stories when she eats breakfast. At the time I was researching digital music players for kids and thought it would be a great idea to include audio stories into my music loving child’s life. I wondered how easy it would be to find audio stories for kids and simply forgot to look into it any further.* So lately we’ve been having some mealtime battles of the “less talk, more eat” variety. Well, leave it up to Zrecs impeccable timing to introduce their first original audio story and it’s downloadable for free, brilliant! So far they only have two in the vault, but we’ve enjoyed them so much that it prompted me to look for more free audio stories. So I googled and came across the Storynory collection, featuring Original Stories, Fairytales, pieces from Classic Authors, as well as Educational and Junior Stories (for younger children and those just starting to learn english). Not only are the stories great, but a british-accented narrator (Natasha), makes them even better. Now we enjoying spending our lunchtime listening to audio stories, in peace, and we’re able to talk about the story when we’re finished. Woohoo! We’re celebrating a small victory over here! *grin* So far her favorite is a Zrecs original, The Two Bears and the Carousel. Zrecs has plans to share more stories in the future from the Audio Archives on their Punnybop site… can’t wait!
Happy listening!
*EDIT: So apparently I was not paying very much attention when reading the above referenced article since they mentioned Storynory as a source of free audio stories. Or most likely it was one of the many tabs that has succumbed to my well meaning husband’s “I had to close the window” explanations, as he lovingly resumed counseling me through my “tab addiction” (it’s for real people)… Now, why doesn’t Safari have the much-loved “restore session” feature that Firefox has? Or does it? (googling) Ok, so there is a way to restore your previous session in Safari afterall. Thank you iamdigitalman! And thank you google!.. and thank you little tabs, you make it so easy to indulge in frequent mind-numbing tangents!
