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Audible Is Offering Free Audiobooks for Kids During School Closures

Check out our top picks.

Hannah Hudson on March 20, 2020

As hard and uncertain as things are right now, there are pieces of good news everywhere. The latest? Audible is offering hundreds of free audiobooks for kids during COVID-19 school closures.

Just go to audible.com/stories to access audiobooks for preschoolers through teens. No catches, no credit cards.

Even better? There are stories available in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Chinese, too. We’ve rounded up some of our favorite picks below.

Preschooler Favorites

• Timeless Tales of Beatrix Potter narrated by Katherine Kellgren

• Stone Soup narrated by Heather Forest

• Story Party narrated by Samantha Land

Elementary Favorites

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland narrated by Scarlett Johansson

• The Birchbark House narrated by Nicolle Littrell

• The Terrible Two narrated by Adam Verner

Tween Favorites

• Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons narrated by Bahni Turpin

• Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare narrated by Ralph Lister

• Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry narrated by LeVar Burton

Teen Favorites

• Who Done It? narrated by Rebecca Gibel

• The Bone Witch narrated by Emily Woo Zeller and Will Damron

• Rad American Women A-Z narrated by Bahni Turpin and Allyson Johnson