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Tell me Your Story: Kids Audiobooks

6/18/2020

 
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The Children’s Homer, Padraic Colum, +BOCD F COL
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, Ingri & Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, +BOCD F DAU ª
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke, +BOCD F FUN *ª
The Inquisitor’s Tale, or, Three Magical Children and Their Dog, Adam Gidwitz, +BOCD F GID *ª
Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics, Chris Grabenstein, +BOCD F GRA *ª
The 39-Storey Treehouse, Andy Griffiths, +BOCD F GRI *
Starry River of the Sky, Grace Lin, +BOCD F LIN
When the Sea Turned to Silver, Grace Lin, +BOCD F LIN *ª
The Great Cake Mystery, Alexander McCall Smith, +BOCD F MCC *ª
Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, Katherine Rundell, +BOCD F RUN
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson +BOCD F SAN *ª
Betty Before X, Ilyasah Shabazz, +BOCD F SHA
Nightbooks, J.A. White, +BOCD F WHI *ª
Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World, Reshma Saujani, +BOCD 005 SAU *
All in a Drop: How Antony, van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World, Lori Alexander, +BOCD 579 ALE *ª
The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold, Daniel James Brown, +BOCD 797 BRO *ª
Aru Shah and the End of Time, Roshani Chokshi, + DAB F CHO *ª
The Journey of Little Charlie, Christopher Paul Curtis, + DAB F CUR *ª
Blended, Sharon Draper, + DAB F DRA *ª
Refugee 87, Ele Fountain, + DAB F FOU
Battle of Champions, Henry Lien, + DAB F LIE
Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different, Ben Brooks, + DAB 920 BRO ª
Stories for Kids Who Dare to Be Different, Ben Brooks, + DAB 920 BRO
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Tell Me Your Story: Kids Movies

6/18/2020

 
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Dazzle Ships, +DVD 940.4 DAZ
Astro Girl, +DVD AST
The BFG, +DVD BFG
The Black Stallion, +DVD BLA
The Breadwinner, +DVD BRE
Captain Underpants, +DVD CAP
Dreamers, +DVD DRE
Faerie Tale Theatre, +DVD FAE
Ferdinand, +DVD FER
Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepy Tales, +DVD GOO
Goosebumps, +DVD GOO
Grand Canyon, +DVD GOO
Heidi, +DVD HEI
Hugo, +DVD HUG
​The Napping House and More Stories that Rhyme, +DVD NAP

Noisy Nora and More Stories by Rosemary Wells, +DVD NOI
The Poky Little Puppy & Friends, +DVD POK
Rapunzel and More Classic Fairy Tales, +DVD RAP
Redwoods, +DVD RED
Rescue and Jessica: A Life Changing Friendship, +DVD RES
The Secret Garden, +DVD SEC
Storywatchers Club: World Folktales, +DVD STO
Thank You, Omu, +DVD THA
Two Friends, +DVD TWO
The Wind in the Willows: a Tale of Two Toads, +DVD WIN
Wolfie the Bunny and Other Rabbit Adventures, +DVD WOL
Wonder, +DVD WON
Wonderstruck, +DVD WON
A Wrinkle in Time, +DVD WRI
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Tell Me Your Story: Picture Books

6/18/2020

 
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How to Read a Book, Kwame Alexander, ++ALE
How this Book Was Made, Mac Barnett, ++BAR
The Best Place to Read, Debbie Bertram, ++BER *
Just One More Story, Jennifer Brutschy, ++BRU
A Very Late Story, Marianna Coppo, ++COP
My Mighty Journey, A Waterfall's Story, John Coy, ++COY
Stories of the Night, Kitty Crowther, ++CRO
Letters from Bear, Gauthier David, ++DAV
The Fish Who Cried Wolf, Julia Donaldson, ++DON
The Storyteller's Candle, or La velita de los cuentos, Lucia Gonzalez, ++GON
A Story, a Story: An African Tale, Gail Haley, ++HAL
Ralph Tells a Story, Abby Hanlon, ++HAN
Rocket Writes a Story, Tad Hills, ++HIL *
Little Red Writing, Joan Holub ++HOL *
A Child of Books, Oliver Jeffers, ++JEF
A Squiggly Story, Andrew Larsen, ++LAR
Lift, Minh Le, ++LE
Idea Jar, Adam Lehrhaupt, ++LEH
Chapter Two Is Missing!, Josh Lieb, ++LIE
The Story I'll Tell, Nancy Tupper Ling, ++LIN
Look! I Wrote a Book! (And You Can Too), Sally Lloyd-Jones, ++LLO
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A Perfectly Messed-up Story, Patrick McDonnell, ++MCD
Lola at the Library, Anna McQuinn, ++MCQ
How to Read a Story, Kate Messner, ++MES
Reading Makes You Feel Good, Todd Parr, ++PAR
I Want a Bedtime Story, Tony Ross, ++ROS
Story Time for Little Porcupine, Joseph Slate, ++SLA
The Best Story, Eileen Spinelli, ++SPI
Ideas Are All Around, Phillip Stead, ++STE
Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise, David Ezra Stein, ++STE *
​I Want to Be in a Scary Story, Sean Taylor, ++TAY
Grandfather Tang's Story, Ann Tompert, ++TOM
The Storyteller, Evan Turk, ++TUR

The Tickle Stories, Jean Van Leeuwen, ++VAN
Wait! I Want to Tell You a Story, Tom Willans, ++WIL
Hooray for Books, Brian Won, ++WON
A Quieter Story, Liza Woodruff, ++WOO
I Am a Story, Dan Yaccarino, ++YAC
The Whisperer, Pamela Zagarenski, ++ZAN
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Mythology & Folklore, adaptations & retellings

6/16/2020

 
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The Wrath and the Dawn, Renee Ahdieh, YA AHD WRA 1 *ª
The Annotated African American Folktales ed. Gates & Tatar, 398.2089 ANN
The Arabian Nights, tr. Husain Haddawy, 398.22 ARA
The Norwegian Folktales of Asbjornsen and Moe, tr. Tiina Nunnally 398.2 ASB
Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney 829 BEO ª
Through the Woods, Emily Carroll GN CAR
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, retold Peter Ackroyd, 821 CHA
A Wild Swan, Michael Cunningham, F CUN *
​Malinche, Laura Esquivel, F ESQ
ODY-C, Matt Fraction GN FRA
American Gods, Neil Gaiman, F GAI *ª
Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman, F GAI *ª
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Philip Pullman, 398.20943 GRI
The Mere Wife, Maria Dahvana Headley F HEA
Dream Angus, Alexander McCall Smith, F MCC
Circe, Madeline Miller, F MIL *ª
Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, SF MOR *ª
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The Penguin Book of Mermaids, ed. Bacchilega and Brown, 398.21 PEN
Fearless Girls, Wise Women, & Beloved Sisters, Kathleen Ragan, 398.2082 RAG
The Cassandra, Sharma Shields, F SHI
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, ed. Oh and Chapman, YA THO
House of Names, Colm Toibin, F TOI
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, J. R. R. Tolkien, SF TOL *
Trickster, Matt Dembicki, YA GN TRI *
A note from Laura: Humans have always told stories to explore and explain the world, so myths and tales often have roots in religious traditions. Inclusion on or exclusion from this list is not meant to promote or denigrate any cultural or religious tradition.
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Nature, Landscape, & the Environment

6/16/2020

 
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Cultivating Delight, Diane Ackerman, 508 ACK
Our National Parks, Ansel Adams, 770.92 ADA
Whispers and Shadows, Jerry Apps, 921 APPS *
The World-Ending Fire, Wendell Berry, 818 BER 
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard, 574.9755 DIL *ª
The Memory of Things, John Hildebrand, 977 HIL
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, Edith Holden 574.9424 HOL 
Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman, Miriam Horn, 333.72 HOR
A Country Year, Sue Hubbell, 508.778 HUB
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver, F KIN *
Sustaining Lake Superior, Nancy Langston 977.4 LAN *
A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold, 977.5 LEO *ª
Natural Wonders of the World, ed. Peter Francis, 551.41 NAT
Upstream, Mary Oliver, 814 OLI *
A Place to Which We Belong, ed. Boyer & Isherwood, 977.5 PLA
The Overstory, Richard Powers, F POW *
Bird Cloud, Annie Proulx, 921 PROULX
Above the Waterfall, Ron Rash, F RAS *

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Walking Home Ground, Robert L. Root, 977.5 ROO ​​*
How to Raise a Wild Child, Scott D. Sampson 649.5 SAM *
Landscape and Memory, Simon Schama, 304.23 SCH
The World Without Us, Alan Weisman, 304.2 WEI ª
Anthill, Edward O. Wilson, F WIL
The Invention of Nature, Andrea Wulf, 509.2 WUL *
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Black & African-American Voices

6/4/2020

 
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The Toni Morrison Book Club, Juda Bennett, et al., 374.22 BEN
The Yellow House, Sarah Broom, 814 BRO *
Speaking of Summer, Kalisha Buckhanon, F BUC *
Everywhere You Don’t Belong, Gabriel Bump, F BUM *
Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams, F CAR *ª
A Princess in Theory, Alyssa Cole, R COL REL-1 *
Jay-Z: Made in America, Michael Eric Dyson, 781.649 DYS
Hunger, Roxane Gay, 921 GAY *ª
The Proposal, Jasmine Guillory, R GUI *ª
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Talia Hibbert, R HIB *ª
The Sun Does Shine, Anthony Ray Hinton, 364.66092 HIN *ª
Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby, 814 IRB *ª
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin, SF JEM GRE-1 *ª
This Will Be My Undoing, Morgan Jerkins, 305.48 JER *
How We Fight for Our Lives, Saeed Jones, 811 JON *ª
The Other Madisons, Bettye Kearse, 973.5 KEA
Heavy: an American Memoir, Kiese Laymon, 305.896 LAY *ª
From Scratch, Tembi Locke, 791.45 LOC *ª
Deacon King Kong, James McBride, F MCB *ª
On the Other Side of Freedom, DeRay Mckesson, 323.09 MCK *

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Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi, SF ONY 
Diamond Doris, Doris Payne, 364.162 PAY
Song of Blood and Stone, L. Penelope, SF PEN EAR-1
Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid, F REI *ª
The Revisioners, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, F SEX *
Don’t Call Us Dead, Danez Smith, 811 SMI
More than Enough, Elaine Welteroth, 070.92 WEL *ª
Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson, F WOO *ª

Note from Laura: this is a small sampling of the new books by Black authors that we have added to our shelves in the last few years. Enjoy these romances, family stories, essays, fiction, memoirs and more, and please ask our team if you're looking for more suggestions.
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    Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

    After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

    (LINKcat links from 2021 through 4/2022 may be broken. We'll fix them ASAP!)

    For lists before 2021:
    Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks and titles with an ª are available as digital audiobooks on Wisconsin's Digital Library.
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