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Kids really love stories. And kids adore it when somebody takes the time to tell or read them a fine story. They often have one or two favourite stories that they want to hear over and over again. That’s good, because it allows them to continue to develop the images in their head that go with the story and to make use of their own fantasy.

Many parents do a truly great job helping their kind to develop their fantasy and to allow them to have stimulation other than from TV. Others are simply not aware, how important it is to further this ability of imaginativeness, fantasy and mental images. Video games and TV may be very parctical to keep kids busy and out of your feet, but they are not really helping the development of your kids mental capacities.

“I’m lacking time to read stories to my kids” you may say. That’s truly a problem for some parents, especially if you are working at a job and if you have to take care of your household and kids after your regular work hours. That however does not mean that you can not stimulate the brain of your kids with interesting stories. Fortunately, there are plenty excellent recordings of childrens novels and stories for kids available. These audio book come either on CD in physical format or even more convenient, free audio books for kids can be downloaded from the internet and you can then either listen to them on your computer, burn them to CD and listen to them on a regular stereo or on your auto audio system, or they can be directly played on an MP3 player.

The great thing is that many of these kids tales can be found for very little or even no money at all! The choice of audio books with kids adventure stories is very large and you are sure to find the audios that contain stories that your children love best.

Roald Dahl - Some of the more well known authors and stories are i.e. Roald Dahl and his series of very famous and popular stories like i.e. “Fantastic Mr. Fox”, “The Witches” or “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”. These are the tales kids love. They are taken out of a fantasy world but contain elements that the kids can identify with in their own daily life. The descriptions of the people and scenes where the story happens are detailed enough to provide the kids with a good base to start, but then the writer leaves plenty of room for their own fantasy. A good story well told is really ‘cinema in the head’!

Lean back a few moments and shut your eyes. Now try to remember one of the stories that you were told when you were young, or if nobody told you a story (how sad…) try to think of a book you read then. Normally you will find that a combination of images and even feelings will pop up in your head and you are taken back into a long forgotten imaginary world.

Be sure that your kids will be able to do the same when they are grown up, help them develop one of the most important faculties, creativity and fantasy! With a good kids audio book you can wake up intellectual abilites that will be important for your kid the rest fo their life …. and you will have a lot of really happy quiet hours yourself, as the kids will listen to these tales over and over again.

Tags: Kids & Teens

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