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The littleun’s don’t seem to understand the word sleep-in (in the Hawkes Bay the birds start at 4:45am [yikes] - but I can normally drag out getup time until 6am) so it can be a couple of hours with the chipmunks before the lady of the house arises.
We’ve almost worn out Bad Jelly the Witch and with another morning dad in the house this morning (though he made it to 7:15) we reminisced on the stories we used to listen to on Sunday mornings.
A bit of googling and found a site that has a good range as MP3 downloads and even album artwork you can drag into iTunes.
Sync with the Touch and plugged into the stereo and the nippers are listening to the same stories we used to listen to over 30 years ago. How’s that for a cool use of the Internet!
Such classics as Gerald McBoing Boing, Maxie the Taxi, Rumpelstiltskin, The Tar Baby and of course Sparky and the Talking Train.
I’m still trying to hunt down Toot the Tug and Flick the Fire Engine.
http://www.kidsaudiobooks.co.uk
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There’s a lot more here:
http://www.kiddierecords.com/
For the last few years they’ve posted a new one each week, all recorded from the original vinyl for additional crackly nostalgia. All free MP3s as well. Flick is in the 2007 section…
The kiddierecords one is great. My son enjoyed the Lone Ranger stories. Thanks for the link to the other one Rod.
If you really want to be nostalgic about the stuff we heard on the radio when we were kids, check these out:
http://www.donlinden.com/cfvolume123.htm
They’ve been put together by Don Linden, who ran the children shows way back when. They’re the real-deal; the tracks that were broadcast in NZ.
My wife and I picked them up as a boxed set and they’re invaluable in the car on long trips (for us and the kids).
the birds start here about the same time and we live next to a patch of bush - it can be deafening, particularly in spring - however I work for a company in the US and keep PST programmer’s hours - so 5am is time to get up in the NZ winter …. I see a lot of wonderfull sunrises ….
I second the suggestions of the Don Linden CDs. They’re excellent value.
We’ve got the Don Linden records. I stuffed them together with 10 other kids’ music and story albums onto one mp3 disc using iTunes - this is our travel lifesaver. Roald Dahl reading his own stories are especially soporific (© Beatrix Potter).
Flick has just been released as a book and is in most bookshops also check out
http://www.flickandfriends.com