Thirteen high-energy, zany, fun-filled and engaging stories performed by author/storyteller Robert Munsch. Includes: "Growl: an un-published story," "The Paperbag Princess," "Thomas´ Snowsuit," "Mortimer," "Stephanie´s Ponytail," "Mmm, Cookies!" and many more.

From the moment children are born they enter a new world of light, energy and sound. Every moment becomes a new experience in mental and sensory stimulation. Classical music can and does provide the stimuli needed to help your child realize their full potential. The music presented here is meant to last a lifetime; a lifetime of listening, learning and growing.

The Big Comfy Couch is the safe, cozy place for pre-schoolers to learn about the world around them. This acclaimed, award-winning series shares a child´s point of view and provides a playful environment for fun and discovery. The Big Comfy Couch features an engaging miz of lovable characters led by Loonette, the young energetic clown, and her best friend Molly the Doll. Together with ther friends, Loonette learns through games, stories and other imaginative activities that lead to important lessons in themes such as sharing, caring for others and cooperation.

The Best of Classical Kids is a value-priced series ideal for price-driven, holiday or promotionally-themed campaigns, end caps, dump bins, countertop merchandising, spinner racks, and more.

This series feature 55-70 minutes of instrumental music from six major composers specially selected by Classical Kids producer Susan Hammon. Each Compilation includes child-proven works first heard in the award-winnind and best-selling Classical Kids series but extended and without narration. Each CD is an engaging and entertaining listening experience for all ages.

From the moment children are born they enter a new world of light, energy and sound. Every moment becomes a new experience in mental and sensory stimulation. It is important that children are provided with the best stimuli possible to encourage the development of communication skills, attention span, quality of speech, memory and maturity. Classical music can and does provide the stimuli needed to help your child realize their full potential. The music presented here is meant to last a lifetime; a lifetime of listening, learning and growing.

The Big Comfy Couch is the safe, cozy place for pre-schoolers to learn about the world around them. This acclaimed, award-winning series shares a child´s point of view and provides a playful environment for fun and discovery. The Big Comfy Couch features an engaging miz of lovable characters led by Loonette, the young energetic clown, and her best friend Molly the Doll. Together with ther friends, Loonette learns through games, stories and other imaginative activities that lead to important lessons in themes such as sharing, caring for others and cooperation.

13 high-energy, zany, fun filled and engaging stories performed by author/storyteller Robert Munsch. Includes: "Growl an un-published story", "The Paperbag Princess", "Thomas´ Snowsuit", "Mortimer", "Stephanies Ponytail", "Mmm, Coockies!", plus so much more!

Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the telephone, powered flight and recording and many others have made the modern world what it is. But who were the men who had these ideas and made reality of them?

Treasure Island must be the most enthralling adventure book ever written for children. As we listen to the voice of Jim Hawkins telling his extraordinary tale, and later that of his companion Dr Livesey, we are plunged into a world of pirates, buried treasure, mutiny and deceit. We meet Billy Bones, Blind Pew, Black Dog and, of course, the charming buccaneer Long John Silver.

Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Marin Alsop combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvořák and Shostakovich. Their colourful lives and their love of music is told against the backdrop of some of their finest works – an ideal combination.

This lively recording is a perfect way to introduce classical music to the entire family. It looks at the music through the lives of the great composers and their environment, from the churches and cathedrals that produced the familiar sound of Gregorian chant, to Johann Sebastian Bach, the family man composing for the glory of God

The Perfect Lullaby MPkey is a downloadable music collection with four hours of beautiful classical music to soothe children. Produced by Naxos of America in partnership with eMusic, a leading online music download service, the Perfect Lullaby MPkey guides consumers to a special page on the eMusic site with step-by-step instructions and provides a pass code to automatically download tracks as universally-compatible MP3s. Listeners can enjoy the music by playing it on their computer, transferring it to a portable device — such as an iPod — or burning it to a CD. The Perfect Lullaby also includes a full-color booklet with words to famous lullabies.

Read by Benjamin Soames, UNABRIDGED, 4 CDs

The Tale of Troy by Benedict Flynn

There was once a time, nearly four thousand years ago, when the tall towers of a city called Troy reached gleaming into the sky; when its proud king fought against an invading army in a desperate siege. The Tale of Troy was so important to the ancient Greeks that its author, Homer, became a kind of hero. Long after his death artists, thinkers and ordinary people still look to his tale for inspiration. This exciting version of the famous story is retold especially for eight- to thirteen-year-olds.

Music: Stravinsky, Koechlin, Grieg, Gilson, Salter & Skinner, Wagner, Mendelssohn, Schreer, Ravel, Walton, Prokofiev

The Adventures of Odysseus by Benedict Flynn

The Adventures of Odysseus is the story of what happened after the Trojan War when Odysseus, the most cunning of all the Greek heroes, left Troy and made his way back to his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. It was first told by a poet named Homer nearly three thousand years ago and is retold in this new version especially for younger listeners.

Music: Mahler, Schumann, Glazunov, Khachaturian, d’Indy, Bliss, Debussy

Read by Garrick Hagon, Abridged, 4 CDs

Two of Twain’s great classics are combined here, adding to Naxos Audiobooks’ now well-established collection of box sets.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the story of a boy’s adventures growing up in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi river over a hundred years ago. The cheerful, adventurous hero plays truant to form a pirate band and, together with his best friend, Huckleberry Finn, finds fun, excitement, and buried treasure, along the shores of the great river.

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, floating down the Mississippi on their raft, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, find life filled with excitement and the spirit of adventure. Join Huck and Jim and their old friend Tom Sawyer as they come up against low-down thieves and murderers whilst being chased by Huck’s evil, drunken father who is after Huck’s treasure. It is a trip you’ll never tire of.

Read by Anna Bentinck and Daniel Philpott, Abridged, 4 CDs

Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall is an Edwardian history book for younger listeners which tells the story of England, concluding with the reign of Queen Victoria.

During 2006, Our Island Story was released unabridged in three volumes. Naxos AudioBooks now offers an attractive collection of the main stories and personalities. This skilful abridgement nevertheless maintains the narrative of British history, from the arrival of Julius Caesar to the height of the British Empire and the long reign of Queen Victoria.

Read by Marin Alsop, Unabridged, 2CDs

Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony and the world’s leading female conductor, presents the lives and works of six more composers in her award-winning series of classical music audiobooks published by Naxos AudioBooks. Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Rachmaninov and John Williams are the figures she presents here with their music in the forefront.
How does Williams sit in the company of Haydn and Chopin?

Marin Alsop says ‘I have conducted John Williams in concert and I feel that in the contemporary context, and especially in the music he has written for films, he deserves to be upfront with the great classic composers.’

Excerpts from the big films including E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars are included in this unique concept album.

See also: Famous Composers and The Story of Classical Music, read by Marin Alsop and both winners of Audio Publishers Association’s The Audies award for Original Work.

Read by Benjamin Soames, Unabridged, 2CDs

How did the great scientists make their remarkable discoveries? And what kind of men were they? This companion volume to Inventors and their Inventions introduces the work of 10 men to younger readers, and range from the world of Ancient Greece to the 20th century discovery of DNA. Among them are the crucial discovery the earth goes around the sun (Galileo), the principle of gravity (Newton), the evolution of the species (Darwin) and the principle of inherited characteristics or genetics (Mendel). Part of the Naxos AudioBooks educational series on key figures in history, and of particular interest to parents encouraging their children to broaden their education and understanding of famous figures of the past.

This three-CD set covers the enchanting conclusion to Alice’s adventures. It is narrated by David Horovitch and Jo Wyatt, and the cast includes Richard Wilson, David Shaw Parker, David Timson, Teresa Gallagher, Sean Barrett and others. This product was named to the American Library Association’s Notable Children’s Recording List in 2007.

This collection includes magical, macabre, dramatic, funny, bizarre, absurd, delightful, moving and charming poems by Lewis Carroll, A.A. Milne, Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc, Kenneth Grahame and many others. Readers such as Anton Lesser, Simon Russell-Beale and Timothy West bring the lines beautifully to life and aim to make this an ideal introduction to some of the best-loved children's poetry.