Ambleside Online audiobooks - on SALE! - or even FREE!

I read through the entire book of Our Island Story with my two oldest boys.  I feel like it is quite an accomplishment as it stretched over several school years!  Our Island Story (alternately known as An Island Story as well) by HE Marshall is a spine history text for the first 4 years of Ambleside Online.  But the second time through, now that I am teaching more than just one year, I LOVE having the audio version for my y1 girl!  I just play the audio right here on the computer and she does her narration as normal.  Many times we listen to it together, but I've had her listen alone as well and draw her narration or just come and find me to tell it back.

Christianaudio.com has a sale going on that you can find a lot of AO titles for $7.49!  Go check it out if you are interested in audios because the regular prices range anywhere from $10 - $30...




Our Island Story: Complete by H.E. Marshall
I bought mine for $38!!  This version is on sale for $25!  oh man!  


Some other titles on christianaudio.com:  (look under the Classic Literature category for more)

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: A Blackstone Production by Lewis Carroll (AOy3 xtra)
• Peter Pan: A Blackstone Production by J. M. Barrie (AOy1 xtra)
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (not on sale - AOy1)
• Little Men by Louisa May Alcott (AOy6 xtra)
• Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne (AOy1)
• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss (AOy6 xtra)
• The Wind in the Willows: A Blackstone Production by Kenneth Grahame (AOy2)
• When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne (AOy1)
• Anderson's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (AOy2)
• Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables is an extra in AOy5)
• Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
• Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery
• Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
• Pollyanna: A Blackstone Production by Eleanor H. Porter (AOy4 xtra))
• The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney (AOy2 xtra)
• The Secret Garden: A Blackstone Production by Frances Hodgson Burnett (AOy4 xtra)
• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (this is the second book in the series, the first book is and extra in AOy2) 

Librivox...
ahh.  free.  but there is one really annoying thing about free... beggars can't be choosy.  There are a lot of volunteer readers that do not read clearly or have pesky issues with their microphone resulting in terrible sound.  Or there's that special feature that if you regularly listen to librivox recordings, your kids will have the intro memorized in no time, "This is a librivox recording.  All librivox recordings are in the public domain..."  Yes.  kind of annoying over time.  All said, free is a very good price!!  Here is a REALLY helpful page I just found the other day that lists all the recordings of books on the Ambleside Online booklist in years 1-4 HERE.  Recordings of the books on the Ambleside Online booklist for years 5-8 HERE.

Summer is fun for stocking up while things are on sale!