Okay, we also love our audiobooks...in the car, in the house, wherever. Sometimes the listening (or, being "read to") experience is so amazing, because of the truly great readers that perform them (tip for parents: easier car rides, and lots of fun besides!) Here are some of our favorites...they are great books to read as well, but we've listened to them and think they'd be fab for your next road trip!

• The Illuminated Adventures of Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
• The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo​
• Little House on the Prairie (series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The All-of-a-Kind-Family (series) by Sydney Taylor
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (series) by Betty MacDonald
• Sarah, Plain & Tall (trilogy) by Patricia MacLachlan
• The Last Dragon by Silvana de Mari
• Mr. and Mrs. Bunny - Detectives Extraordinaire! ​AND Lord and Lady Bunny – Almost Royalty! by Polly Horvath
• The Chronicles of Narnia - all of them! By C.S. Lewis
• Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio
• The Light Princess by George MacDonald
• The Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson
• Grace Lin's trilogy about her childhood, starting with The Year of the Dog
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (and both companion books) by Grace Lin
• A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears by Jules Feiffer
• The Railroad Children by E. Nesbit
• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (this is the original version, and is very merry indeed! Full of fun and fabulous wit, read beautifully)
• The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
• The Abominables by Eva Ibbotson
• ​​Little Women ​by Louisa May Alcott/Narrated by Kate Reading​
• ​Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones/Narrated by Jenny Sterlin
• The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
• The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry
• Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
• I, Coriander and The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner
• The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens
• The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
• The Mysterious Benedict Society (series) by Trenton Lee Stewart
• Paper Things by Jennifer Richard Jacobson​​
• A Handful of Stars by Cynthia Lord
• The Protector of the Small quartet by Tamora Pierce
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Young Adult (Ages 13/14+)

• Seraphina (as well as the sequel, Shadow Scale, and the companion novel, ​Tess of the Road) by Rachel Hartman 
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Hate U Give and On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (outstanding story and narration for parents and teens ages 14+)​
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (highly recommended for parents and teens ages 14+)
• Cinder ​by Marissa Meyer

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