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Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating:  (5.0 Stars)
Here are some of the most enchanting fairy stories of all time. The Brothers Grimm conjure up a world of fantasy, hope and good fortune where the princess meets and marries the right prince (even if he once was a frog)...
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Tales of Beatrix Potter
by Beatrix Potter
Formats: Audio CD ($16.16) | Audio Cassette ($16.16) | MP3 CD ($17.96)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
This collection of twenty-two of Beatrix Potter's charming stories about Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tittlemouse, Ribby the pussy-cat, Duchess the dog, Jemima Puddle-duck, and the others…
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A Bit on the Side
by William Trevor
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
Average Rating:  (4.0 Stars)
William Trevor is truly a Chekhov for our age, and a new collection of stories from him is always a cause for celebration. These twelve stories include…
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Classic American Short Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they...
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The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
by Alexander McCall Smith
Formats: Audio CD ($18.39) | Audio Cassette ($19.99)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
From the author of the phenomenally successful, New York Times best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency mystery series, comes this spellbinding collection of African folktales....
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Great Classic Hauntings
by Ambrose Bierce
Formats: Audio Cassette ($17.95)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Chilling tales of cursed corpses, gloomy houses, mysterious strangers, and ghosts. Includes Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Robert Louis Stephenson.
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Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
Formats: MP3 CD ($18.00)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Drawing from the oral storytelling traditions of India and Africa, Nobel prizewinner Rudyard Kipling's vigorous, amusing tales...
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White on White
by E.B. White
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96) | Audio Cassette ($16.16)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
E.B. White is famous for his columns in Harper's and The New Yorker magazines, revered...
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour
by Louis L'Amour
Formats: Audio CD ($17.56)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
No one more vividly captures the rugged majesty and enduring spirit of the American West than Louis L'Amour....
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The Best of O. Henry
by O. Henry
Formats: Audio CD ($12.76)
Average Rating:  (2.8 Stars)
The best of O. Henry's stories: "The Gift of the Magi," "The Voice of the City," "The Ransom of Red Chief," and more.
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Classic Women's Short Stories
by Kate Chopin
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating: (0.5 Stars)
This collection includes five stories by influential women writers from the close of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century.
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Anansi Time with Bobby Norfolk
by Bobby Norfolk
Formats: Audio CD ($14.95) | Audio Cassette ($10.80)
On a recent visit to an obscure African village, he was invited to a community-wide afternoon break at which elders told traditional Anansi stories and everyone else listened intently.
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Animal Tales
by Naomi Adler
Formats: Audio CD ($17.99)
Acclaimed storyteller Naomi Adler presents nine traditional animal-themed folktales that reflect diverse cultures in this audio book containing two CDs with an 8-page illustrated leaflet.
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The Animals Could Talk
by Heather Forest
Formats: Audio CD ($13.46)
Aesop was a storyteller and slave who lived 2,500 years ago in ancient Greece. Because of his humble position in society, Aesop could not speak his thoughts openly.
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Ashley Bryan's Beautiful Blackbird and Other Folktales
by Ashley Bryan
Formats: Audio CD ($17.56)
Ashley Bryan travels from coast to coast speaking and performing and is an award-winning author and illustrator. He turned 80 years old in 2003 and lives on an island off the coast of Maine.
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Ashley Bryan: Poems & Folktales
by Ashley Bryan
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
An award-winning children's book author/illustrator brilliantly performs two hours of poems and his most endearing folktales.
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At Home with Daddy's Stories
by Kathryn Tucker Windham
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96)
She is a living icon of the family storytelling renaissance in American. And to hear her tell it, Kathryn Tucker Windham owes it all to her father…
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Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
by Mary Sheldon
Formats: Audio CD ($14.95)
The late screen legend Audrey Hepburn uses music from Maurice Ravels Mother Goose as the framework for this production.
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Baby Hawk Learns to Fly
by Bobby Norfolk
Formats: Audio CD ($13.46)
Award-winning storyteller Bobby Norfolk brings his talents to six traditional stories. A mixture of classic stories and lesser-known folktales, these are all performance-tested audience favorites…
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Bartleby and Other Stories
by Herman Melville
Formats: Audio CD ($16.18) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener is a classic American short story, a strange tale of a constantly busy copyist whose simple refrain, "I would prefer not to", wreaks havoc on his workplace.
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The Berenstain Bears Holiday Audio Collection
by Stan Berenstain
Formats: Audio Cassette ($9.60)
Five popular audiobooks by the Berenstain's are now available in this collection that includes an interview with Stan and Jan Berenstain.
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Betsy-Tacy
by Maud Hart Lovelace
Formats: Audio CD ($14.36)
Betsy hopes that whoever moves into the house across the street will have a little girl just her age.
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Bible Stories for Growing Kids
by Francine Rivers
Formats: Audio CD ($14.39)
From best-selling author Francine Rivers and daughter Shannon Rivers Coiboin, introduce children to the stories and characters of the Bible in this new Bible story audiobook.
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Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
Formats: Audio CD ($7.96)
Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.
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Cajun Fairy Tales
by J.J. Reneaux
Formats: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
Fun, original fairy tales with plenty of Cajun accent.
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