Modern children don't like to read! Many parents and teachers are convinced of this, and in their own childhood it was difficult to tear them away from an interesting book. But in fact, even now many boys and girls adore reading no less than their older relatives. And if the child is still too small and does not know the letters or still does not really want to read on his own, the best children's audiobooks will come to his aid. They will not only introduce your child to world literature, but will also help in his upbringing, enrich his imagination, and instill a love of words...
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Read, listen, fantasize
Young generations are largely made into full-fledged individuals with a high IQ by the literary works they read and listen to. Both paper and audio books help to form character, to make a choice between the right and the not so good. They give knowledge, teach them to think and fantasize, and develop imagination.
When children listen to a text - a fascinating fairy tale, story, story or short novel - they come up with their own “movie”. Each child imagines what the characters look like and the places in which the action develops. By fantasizing in this way, he grows up to be a gifted, creative person. And perhaps one day he will be able to write an exciting story himself.
Why is listening to books important?
The development of visual imagination, creativity and intelligence is an important, but far from the only benefit that audiobooks bring to children's audiences. Also, works read by announcers or actors help children:
And, in the end, children's fairy tales and audiobooks are simply interesting to listen to.
That's not all!
The list of positive factors that an audiobook has on a child’s development is endless. For example, when listening to fairy tales and stories, children simply rest their eyes. This is very important for a generation that spends most of its free time on the computer and video games and, in addition, is heavily loaded with school lessons and homework.
Audio books will help relieve eye fatigue and prevent your vision from deteriorating. And, by the way, they will be a wonderful alternative to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets.
If you find yourself in a traffic jam or waiting for your turn somewhere, an audiobook will perfectly keep your bored child occupied. The paper format may not help here. But a superbly read and fascinating story will be just right. You can turn on the recording in the car without fear of disturbing anyone. In a public place, a telephone or player with headphones will do.
Is it easy to switch from audio to paper?
Books in audio format will in no way prevent children from reading literature “the old fashioned way.” On the contrary, they will learn to perceive and process information in different ways - with their eyes and ears.
Therefore, you can start introducing your child to the world classics through audio, and then “slip” paper books into his hands. Or you can immediately alternate between the spoken and printed word - let your child listen to audio fairy tales and stories and at the same time read books with him.
What to choose for listening?
Today, children's audiobooks are produced in huge quantities. Classic fairy tales (folk and original), works of the school curriculum, and works of modern writers are published in this format. There are works to listen to before bed – calm, peaceful ones, and others – cheerful, “morning” ones. There are moralizing stories and simply entertaining and funny ones. But in general, the choice of books for a child largely depends on his age:
- Children are usually treated to time-tested fairy tales, from Perrault and the Brothers Grimm to Russian folk tales. As for poetry, not all children love it. However, you can try to stage poems by Pushkin, Chukovsky, Marshak, Kharms, Lear.
- Children of primary school age also appreciate fairy tales. They enjoy listening to the classics (Carroll, Lindgren, Uspensky, Nosov, Volkov) and their contemporaries (Rowling, Cowell, Yemets, Roy, Matyushkina, Ronshin).
- Older children should be offered realistic prose - Twain, Krapivin, Tomin, Koval, Sotnik, Aleksin.
The best children's audiobooks are a wonderful and effective way to unobtrusively instill a love of literature, reading, and words. Listening to books is fashionable today. For children, this is not an unpleasant duty, but joy and pleasure. Well, for parents it is an effective tool to help the development and upbringing of their child.
And we invite you to download and listen to fairy tales voiced by our studio announcer Pavel Konstantinovsky. To the Fairy Tales section >>
Work examples
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Christian literature| "Spiritual Consolation"
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Inga Mayakovskaya
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The number of speech units that a first-grader knows is only 2000, a student’s stock is about 10,000, and a professor’s is more than 50,000. In our daily life, we touch only a small fraction of the lexical “storehouses”, and we expand our meager vocabulary by only 1 vocabulary unit over the course of weeks.
How to speed up this process? How to learn to speak beautifully? How to stop frantically selecting synonyms in your head when you want to express your thoughts as literary and intelligent as possible?
The answer is simple: read the right books!
First of all, of course, we are talking about the classics, but there are also books whose task is to teach us to speak beautifully.
Here is a list of the best of them.
Zen in the Art of Writing
A book that can be pulled apart for quotes. Many readers deservedly call it a literary masterpiece and the best work of the author, despite the fact that here the reader spoiled by science fiction will not find the usual genre - the book contains essays from different years, as well as real stories told by Bradbury with “notes” for beginning writers.
Of course, this book is primarily aimed at beginning writers, but it will undoubtedly be useful for those who want to speak beautifully, because who else can learn eloquence from, if not from a literary genius?
The book will be useful for both adults and the younger (already thinking) generation.
As life shows, each of us is capable of maintaining a professional conversation on 1, maximum 2-3 topics in which he is able to feel like a “fish in water”. We grab everything else at the top, trying to remain silent more or nod and smile in a conversation with a serious interlocutor who is well “floating” in the topic.
But Larry King is able to talk about everything. And even those who have never watched his show in their lives have heard about this man. This “chatter” guide from King will be of interest to everyone, thanks to its applicability in absolutely all cultures and on all continents, despite the fact that all the examples given in the book “come from the USA.”
Black rhetoric. The power and magic of words
Of course, this textbook will not be a panacea for future speakers, but in combination with practice and consolidation, the material will very much help to increase your oratorical weight.
Russian with dictionary
This bibliographic rarity is a very high-quality guide, created from articles written by authors at different times about the changes taking place in the Russian language.
Of course, like everything in this world, language is constantly changing. But, unlike the “old” linguists, who are saddened by the modern impoverishment of the language, the author believes that the situation is exactly the opposite.
In the book you will find a lot of new and useful things for the development of your speech and for yourself in general, you will learn about the formation of language and its simplification, you will smile along with the author (the book is written with humor and contains many personal observations of the author) and at the same time you will unwittingly get involved in training your own speech.
Where do the legs of misspelled words come from, which letters are considered the rarest or most expensive in the world, what are “mumziki” for, etc. Lev Uspensky will answer all questions in an accessible manner - for mothers, fathers and teenage children.
If your life is directly connected with the word, if you want to understand your history more deeply, this masterpiece is for you.
I want to speak beautifully! Speech techniques
None of us were born speakers. You have to learn to speak beautifully, sometimes long and painfully. For a speech to be convincing, not only speech patterns are important, but also literacy, emotionality, and the ability to captivate the listener or reader.
- not an invention of today. The adult generation grew up listening to stories recorded on gramophone records. But even today, free audio fairy tales for children do not lose their relevance for modern caring mothers. We offer you a wide selection of wonderful audio fairy tales that you can freely listen to online at night or download for free. Each fairy tale contains a short description that will help you or your child make a choice.
| Title of the audio tale | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Swan geese | Russian traditional | 248342 |
| Aladdin's magic lamp | Arabian tale | 310033 |
| Quiet fairy tale | Samuel Marshak | 252650 |
| Masha and the Bear | Russian traditional | 1179165 |
| Fox and Crane | Russian traditional | 178000 |
| The Scarlet Flower | Aksakov S.T. | 181016 |
| Kolobok | Russian traditional | 1033661 |
| Aibolit | Korney Chukovsky | 368579 |
| Moidodyr | Korney Chukovsky | 267367 |
| Teremok | Russian traditional | 734646 |
| Baba Yaga | Russian traditional | 656487 |
| Fly Tsokotukha | Korney Chukovsky | 259554 |
| Little Red Riding Hood | Charles Perrault | 183399 |
| Twelve months | Samuel Marshak | 777704 |
| Vasilisa the Beautiful | Russian traditional | 283423 |
| sleeping Beauty | Charles Perrault | 151823 |
| turnip | Russian traditional | 360180 |
| Snow Maiden | Russian traditional | 219316 |
| Princess Frog | Russian traditional | 273438 |
| Puss in Boots | Charles Perrault | 180667 |
| Tom Thumb | Charles Perrault | 143153 |
| Fedorino grief | Korney Chukovsky | 202138 |
| Thumbelina | Andersen H.K. | 307470 |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Brothers Grimm | 655090 |
| The Bremen Town Musicians | Brothers Grimm | 890991 |
| The wolf and the seven Young goats | Brothers Grimm | 657618 |
| The Snow Queen | Brothers Grimm | 1028444 |
| Mermaid | Andersen H.K. | 240026 |
| Snowman | Andersen H.K. | 206174 |
| The Tale of a Stupid Mouse | Samuel Marshak | 434536 |
| Wolf and Fox | Samuel Marshak | 517350 |
| Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | Arabian tale | 143735 |
| The Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor | Arabian tale | 217581 |
| Mustachioed - Striped | Samuel Marshak | 414872 |
| Barmaley | Korney Chukovsky | 147897 |
| Magic pipe | Russian traditional | 246026 |
| Little Rose and Little White | Brothers Grimm | 159770 |
| Living water | Brothers Grimm | 149526 |
| Rapunzel | Brothers Grimm | 203609 |
| Rumplestiltskin | Brothers Grimm | 94250 |
| A pot of porridge | Brothers Grimm | 142997 |
| King Thrushbeard | Brothers Grimm | 65335 |
| little people | Brothers Grimm | 61840 |
| Hansel and Gretel | Brothers Grimm | 63857 |
| golden goose | Brothers Grimm | 53587 |
| Mrs. Blizzard | Brothers Grimm | 123669 |
| Worn out shoes | Brothers Grimm | 101011 |
| Straw, coal and bean | Brothers Grimm | 45860 |
| twelve brothers | Brothers Grimm | 53844 |
| Spindle, weaving shuttle and needle | Brothers Grimm | 51568 |
| Friendship between cat and mouse | Brothers Grimm | 94416 |
| Kinglet and bear | Brothers Grimm | 30015 |
| Royal children | Brothers Grimm | 64651 |
| Brave Little Tailor | Brothers Grimm | 45826 |
| crystal ball | Brothers Grimm | 60747 |
| Queen Bee | Brothers Grimm | 42356 |
| Smart Gretel | Brothers Grimm | 28874 |
| Three lucky ones | Brothers Grimm | 29003 |
| Three spinners | Brothers Grimm | 28787 |
| Three snake leaves | Brothers Grimm | 28818 |
| Three brothers | Brothers Grimm | 28794 |
| The Old Man of the Glass Mountain | Brothers Grimm | 28815 |
| The Tale of a Fisherman and His Wife | Brothers Grimm | 28804 |
| underground man | Brothers Grimm | 30547 |
| Donkey | Brothers Grimm | 28845 |
| Ocheski | Brothers Grimm | 40789 |
| The Frog King, or Iron Henry | Brothers Grimm | 30440 |
| Hare and hedgehog | Brothers Grimm | 49839 |
| ugly duck | Andersen H.K. | 137411 |
| Wild Swans | Andersen H.K. | 93344 |
| Princess on the Pea | Andersen H.K. | 108513 |
| Flint | Andersen H.K. | 134070 |
| Chamomile | Andersen H.K. | 44657 |
| The Steadfast Tin Soldier | Andersen H.K. | 55327 |
| Shadow | Andersen H.K. | 29879 |
| Swineherd | Andersen H.K. | 33617 |
| Ole Lukoje | Andersen H.K. | 79180 |
| The king's new dress | Andersen H.K. | 41956 |
| Linen | Andersen H.K. | 28776 |
| Shepherdess and chimney sweep | Andersen H.K. | 28801 |
| Water drop | Andersen H.K. | 28797 |
| Rosebush Elf | Andersen H.K. | 34129 |
| Silver coin | Andersen H.K. | 31744 |
| Happy family | Andersen H.K. | 41487 |
| Girl with matches | Andersen H.K. | 36941 |
| Storks | Andersen H.K. | 44623 |
| Hans Churban | Andersen H.K. | 28762 |
| Fast walkers | Andersen H.K. | 29136 |
| The Tale of the Golden Cockerel | Pushkin A.S. | 80140 |
| The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights | Pushkin A.S. | 97846 |
| The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish | Pushkin A.S. | 109053 |
| The Tale of Tsar Saltan | Pushkin A.S. | 250214 |
| Green oak near Lukomorye | Pushkin A.S. | 169483 |
| The Nutcracker and the Mouse King | Goffman E.T.A. | 57751 |
| Sandman | Goffman E.T.A. | 36572 |
| golden pot | Goffman E.T.A. | 29299 |
| Bread and gold | Arabian tale | 55681 |
| Beggar and happiness | Arabian tale | 51083 |
| The right remedy | Arabian tale | 48901 |
| Chicken Ryaba | Russian traditional | 144445 |
| Morozko | Russian traditional | 154565 |
| Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber | Russian traditional | 158842 |
| Porridge from an ax | Russian traditional | 149651 |
| Cockerel and bean seed | Russian traditional | 83990 |
| Grief | Russian traditional | 52868 |
| Ivan the Peasant Son and the Miracle Yudo | Russian traditional | 84436 |
| Princess Frog | Russian traditional | 179923 |
| Three Bears | Russian traditional | 122324 |
| Sivka-Burka | Russian traditional | 86000 |
| Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf | Russian traditional | 108608 |
| Fox and black grouse | Russian traditional | 34792 |
| Goby - tar barrel | Russian traditional | 57093 |
| Baba Yaga and berries | Russian traditional | 46119 |
| Battle on Kalinov Bridge | Russian traditional | 31481 |
| Finist – Yasny Sokol | Russian traditional | 40591 |
| Princess Nesmeyana | Russian traditional | 44872 |
| Tops and roots | Russian traditional | 37829 |
| Winter hut of animals | Russian traditional | 64625 |
| flying ship | Russian traditional | 85225 |
| Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka | Russian traditional | 53593 |
| Cockerel - golden comb | Russian traditional | 38555 |
| Zaykin's hut | Russian traditional | 62214 |
| Marya Morevna | Russian traditional | 46237 |
| Wonderful miracle, wonderful miracle | Russian traditional | 34305 |
| Two frosts | Russian traditional | 35395 |
| Most expensive | Russian traditional | 31012 |
| Wonderful shirt | Russian traditional | 31302 |
| Crane and Heron | Russian traditional | 28777 |
| Frost and hare | Russian traditional | 34140 |
| How the fox learned to fly | Russian traditional | 34154 |
| Ivan the Fool | Russian traditional | 31338 |
| Daughter and stepdaughter | Russian traditional | 28798 |
| Magic ring | Russian traditional | 53834 |
| Treasure | Russian traditional | 28823 |
| Fox and Cancer | Russian traditional | 28789 |
| Fox-sister and wolf | Russian traditional | 42117 |
| The Sea King and Vasilisa the Wise | Russian traditional | 48418 |
| Fox and jug | Russian traditional | 28824 |
| bird tongue | Russian traditional | 28822 |
| The soldier and the devil | Russian traditional | 30467 |
| Crystal Mountain | Russian traditional | 28823 |
| Tricky Science | Russian traditional | 28840 |
| Smart guy | Russian traditional | 28767 |
| Snow Maiden and Fox | Russian traditional | 28816 |
| Word | Russian traditional | 28762 |
| Fast messenger | Russian traditional | 28782 |
| Seven Simeons | Russian traditional | 28781 |
| About the old grandmother | Russian traditional | 158232 |
| Go there - I don’t know where, bring that - I don’t know what | Russian traditional | 86287 |
| By magic | Russian traditional | 90887 |
| Rooster and Millstones | Russian traditional | 28763 |
| Shepherd's pipe | Russian traditional | 85883 |
| Petrified Kingdom | Russian traditional | 32716 |
| About rejuvenating apples and living water | Russian traditional | 44661 |
| Goat Dereza | Russian traditional | 40443 |
| How the dog was looking for a friend | Russian traditional | 55344 |
| The Enchanted Princess | Russian traditional | 60615 |
| Magic apple | Russian traditional | 107465 |
To listen to online audio stories It was a pleasure for children; professional announcers, actors and pop stars took part in their creation. The recording uses wonderful melodies and sound effects. Thanks to this, by listening to children's audio fairy tales online for free, the child develops his imagination by imagining the events taking place in magical stories.
Children's audio fairy tales allow kids to expand their vocabulary and enrich their speech with intonations. They also teach babies to concentrate. Many parents complain that after watching cartoons, children become overly excited. After listening to audio fairy tales, such an effect is not observed. Listening to bedtime stories, the child does not strain his eyesight - which, of course, is good for the health of the eyes.
It has been proven that the ability to listen will subsequently help the child more easily master foreign languages and musical literacy. Confident perception of information by ear will be useful for children in their studies. By allowing your kids to listen to audio stories, you make an invaluable contribution to their education.
Is listening to audio fairy tales useful?
Listening to fairy tales online is a great solution for modern parents and their children. Superbly voiced stories will entertain your baby while mom is busy with her chores. In such a situation, audio tales are simply irreplaceable. Just turn on the story, which can be selected and downloaded for free on the website, or press play online - and your child will be immersed in a magical world of fantasy and will have vivid dreams.
You probably understand that listening to audio fairy tales is not only useful, but also extremely convenient. You don't have to have a computer to do this. You can listen to our fairy tales on your tablet, laptop or smartphone. By taking advantage of the opportunity to download audio fairy tales, you will always find entertainment for children on the go. Having several fairy tales pre-recorded on a smartphone or tablet, you will help your child usefully while away any wait, even if you currently do not have access to the Internet.
This section contains audio fairy tales for children that can be listened to online. But before you choose a fairy tale and start listening to it, read the recommendations for mothers in this article. You can listen to the tales below on page ↓.
Probably many of us remember what a gramophone record is. Essentially, this is the same disk that is known to modern times, only its dimensions are larger, the tracks are larger, and less information fits on it. Our older generation (parents and grandparents) listened to music, stories, and fairy tales on gramophone records. But today, gramophone records have lost their relevance - they have been replaced by audio recordings that can be listened to online by connecting to the Internet. Here you can also find audio fairy tales - works for the youngest listeners. What are audio fairy tales for children?
Audio fairy tales as a faithful assistant to parents
Fairy tales in audio format are a modern interpretation of gramophone records. Such recordings are very useful when, after a hard day at work, you don’t have enough strength to read your baby his favorite fairy tale. Audio fairy tales solve this problem - you just need to turn on a work that the child finds interesting, and the baby will be able to hear his favorite story before bed. The beauty of audio fairy tales is that the speakers read the text with expression, it is incredibly interesting and entertaining. After all, many parents do not really have these abilities, so their stories are not so fun and bright.
Another option for using audio fairy tales is for parents to listen to them in order to catch the speaker’s intonation in different events of the work and repeat the plot. This will help in the future to tell fairy tales to your baby with new emotions, which the baby will definitely like.
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What are the benefits of audio fairy tales?
You can listen to audio fairy tales for children at any age, because their benefits are undeniable. What exactly is it? There are many advantages:
- Development of thinking and creative potential. A child, listening to an audio fairy tale, begins to fantasize about the appearance of the characters, the location of events, actions, etc. And if you reinforce listening to audio fairy tales with a creative task, for example, drawing or sculpting what you heard, then the development of thinking and creative abilities occurs with a bang.
- Speech development. Of course, reading books by parents is still more effective for speech development. But! Audio stories are an excellent basis for speech development. A child, listening to works in audio format, begins to grasp the peculiarities of intonation and use it in different life situations, he develops a special expression, remembers various words and learns to use them in the correct context.
- The ability to choose a fairy tale to suit your mood and convenient moment. By showing a little initiative and spending a little time searching for suitable audio fairy tales, you can select works that are appropriate to listen to before bed, as educational or entertainment material. You can find everything on the Internet!
- Undeniable help for parents. This may be wrong to some extent, but sometimes parents really need to keep their child busy at least for a short time, for example, to cook lunch, hang out laundry, etc. And audio fairy tales will help in this matter - they, like a lifesaver, will entice the baby, freeing up the mother for more important matters. In addition, audio tales are very convenient to take on long trips. The main thing is to prepare an interesting arsenal of fairy tales in advance.
- Development of aesthetic taste. Responsible parents will never give their child a low-quality recording with noise, obscene language and other “garbage”. The best audio tales – the quality of which is beyond doubt: the speakers’ speech is pleasant, the text is literate, and the musical accompaniment is at the same level. This way, the child will be exposed to high creativity from early childhood.
Of course, audio fairy tales have a negative side. Often parents begin to neglect live communication with their child, feeding him fairy tales in audio format or cartoons. This is fundamentally wrong. Therefore, it is important to remember that listening to audio fairy tales for children online is useful, but only if this happens in doses. Don't forget to read books to your children! After all, there is no substitute for live communication with your own baby.
How to choose an audio fairy tale for a child?
Even if you listen to audio fairy tales for free, you should not play everything for your child. Try to take into account the baby's age. So, for example, fairy tales about animals are suitable for young children. Such stories do not cause fear in children; they are understandable and more interesting. An older child can be offered fairy tales that feature Baba Yaga, the Serpent Gorynych, Koschey the Immortal and other negative heroes. Such stories will be interesting to them; they will not instill fear, since children of older preschool age have a more stable psyche.
The most popular will be audio fairy tales with a lot of music: the characters sing, and events are accompanied by music of different styles. Such tales enhance imagination and fantasy, causing a storm of emotions and impressions. But such audio tales are inappropriate, for example, for listening to before bed - they stimulate the imagination, which is completely undesirable for a child going to bed. Bedtime audio stories should be calm and soothing.
Don't forget to listen to the audio story before playing it to your child. Note which stories your baby likes and which ones he doesn’t, which works are soothing and which ones are invigorating. Give preference to those audio stories that do not have too loud music with pulsating sound. Such works can instill fear in a child, cause anxiety, aggression, and excessive agitation. The main thing is that the audio tale carries a specific pedagogical lesson and is not bloodthirsty, as is often the case with classics. And remember that it is strictly forbidden for a child to listen to fairy tales with headphones - you can damage your child’s hearing!
- There must be role-based reading, the intonation of the characters, as well as their expression, must change.
- Works that contain music of a different nature, demonstrating ongoing events.
- If there is a pedagogical lesson in a fairy tale.
- Fairy tales should not give rise to feelings of fear and anxiety in a child; they should be peaceful.
So, if your child requires new experiences, feel free to introduce him to audio fairy tales. This way you will satisfy your baby’s need to listen to fairy tales, and at least free yourself up for household chores for a little while. But the main thing is not to overdo it and do not shift your responsibility of raising a child to fairy tales in audio format: as before, give your child maximum free time and do not forget to read books to him.