AudibleKids - Listen and Learn
Profile of Family Friendly Website offering Audiobooks for Children
Jun 19, 2009
The children's audiobook division of Audible, AudibleKids, offers a wide range of audiobooks. These include classic children's fiction through to science fiction and non fiction titles including biographies and study guides.
AudibleKids is, however, much more than an audiobook retailer website. AudibleKids caters to the needs of children, parents, carers and educators, offering a range of useful services that will help children get the most from audiobooks.
Set Up Profiles
Users of AudibleKids can set up a detailed profile. This is a useful networking feature as it allows parents to find other parents with children of a similar age and interest and share recommendations. This is a good way to find relevant listening material and audiobooks that are perhaps a little more specialized. Parents can determine how much information they would like to share.
Share Thoughts With Audiobook Reviews
One of the key benefits of AudibleKids is that fellow parents, children and other listeners can share their thoughts about books with others. In addition to being able to give an audiobook a quick rating via a 'thumbs up' and 'thumbs down' process, listeners can also leave detailed review, create and share listening lists and recommend books. Peer reviews is a useful way to find out more about an audiobook and its suitability.
AudibleKids Child Accounts
Parents can set up AudibleKids child accounts for older children. This allows children to browse the site and identify books that they would like to listen to. Parents can set parameters allowing children to have different levels of access. It is also possible to set up an allowance where older children can purchase their own titles.
Search by Age or Grade
Audiobooks are searchable on a number of features. In addition to being able to search for audiobooks by author or narrator, visitors can also search by children's age or grade. This is a useful way to narrow searches for relevant results.
Listen to Samples
The sample feature allows parents who are not quite sure about a narrators style or the complexity of a text to listen to a sample before buying an audiobook.
Listening Guides
AudibleKids has published listening guides that have been tailored to the needs of children, parents and educators. This also includes free downloadable pdf worksheets.
Free Audiobooks
AudibleKids and Reading is Fundamental Inc (RIF) have got together to offer some free audiobooks. The free audiobooks can be downloaded via the AudibleKids website. Titles include Interview with Lemony Snicket by Lemony Snicket, The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe and other children's classics.
Support
Listeners who are new to the Audible and AudibleKids services can find plenty of help and support on the website. This includes an extensive help section that advises user on supported listening devices and how to download titles.
Picking good audiobooks for children and helping them get the most from them can be a difficult task. The many useful features at AudibleKids will help to make this task easier and ensure a positive experience for all concerned.
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