Classic Adaptation

In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula – a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls. In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon, he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to be afraid, because Count Dracula is one of the Un-Dead – a vampire that drinks the blood of living people.

Once upon a time, six famous children's stories were magically reimagined...with hilarious results! Meet the sneaky Ninjabread Man, cheeky Little Rude Riding Hood, ground-shaking Cinder-Elephant, and clever Octo-Puss in Boots. Snow White has ditched her woodland cottage for a spaceship and seven robots...and the Three Little Narwhals are on the run from the Big Bad Shark! This wonderful compendium brings together riotously funny retellings of well-known tales by popular children's authors Chris Jevons, Samantha Newman, and Jo Franklin.

A full cast performance starring Joan Greenwood and Stanley Holloway.

Adapted from the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.... Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening – and he knows what question the stranger will ask.

In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street – visitors who bring their troubles to the only man in the world who can help them.

The subject of countless adaptations, Oliver Twist is an essential read or listen, and this version is both exciting and accessible for children ages 8 to 13. Roy McMillan uses Dickens’ original words in the main text, simplifying and clarifying them at certain points. Oliver’s journey to London is narrated with ceaseless energy by Jonathan Keeble; his reading is infused with a delicious knack for storytelling.

Lemuel Gulliver sets out on a series of travels, but each time he finds himself shipwrecked in new and unfamiliar lands. And how unfamiliar! In Lilliput, everyone is tiny, and it takes thousands of them to capture him; in Brobdingnag, they’re huge and treat him as a sort of living toy; in Laputa, they live on a floating island inventing impossibly mad projects; and the Houyhnhnms are horses! But through all his adventures, Gulliver learns to see humans in a different way, too.

This charming collection of Grimms’ Fairy Tales includes Rapunzel, Frederick and Catherine, Sweetheart Roland, Snowdrop (Snow White), The Pink and Clever Elsie. Grimms’ Fairy Tales was first published in Germany in 1812 as Kinder und Hausmärchen. This series of recordings is based on the original 1823 English translation by Edgar Taylor, with subsequent editing by Marian Edwardes.

Con el travieso ingenio de un lobo feroz, Roald Dahl reinventa seis de sus cuentos favoritos. ¿Sabías que Blancanieves era la jefa de una banda de enanos apostadores? ¿Que Caperucita coleccionaba abrigos de piel de lobo? ¿Y que el lobo feroz pretendía hacer volar la casa de los tres cerditos... con dinamita?

En este clásico que enfrenta la envidia con la belleza e inocencia, la madrastra de Blancanieves se creía la más bella del reino. Por eso, a medida que la bella jovencita que era Blancanieves iba creciendo, y se hacía más y más guapa cada día, la reina, su madrastra, la iba odiando cada vez más. Hasta que un día decidió llamar al cazador del reino.

Una increíble adaptación para niños de esta obra fundamental de la literatura universal. En esta cuidada versión, los pequeños y los grandes tendrán un acceso fácil, enormemente atractivo y muy entretenido al clásico de Cervantes. Don Quijote es un personaje que nos hace reír, que nos conmueve y nos hace pensar. Don Quijote nos enseña y nos hace más humanos y, sobretodo, abre para nosotros las puertas de la magia. ¡Siempre es un buen momento para dejarnos maravillar por las increíbles y locas aventuras de este caballero andante!

Ever been lost and wanted to go home? Join Odysseus as he struggles to return to his family in this epic retelling of the adventures of The Odyssey Retold for a children's audience, Poetic Primer's The Odyssey, is filled with vibrant sound effects, music, and character voices while still maintaining the poetic format of the original work.

Our eponymous hero finds himself shipwrecked on an African desert island after a tumultuous storm, and following the realization he is the only survivor, is faced with the prospect of years of isolation. However, he throws his energy into familiarizing himself with his new habitat: he hunts, learns how to make pottery and even adopts a parrot. And after encountering a group of cannibals, Robinson Crusoe finally finds a companion.

Flash Gordon is kidnapped and forced to perform as a trapeze artist in a circus of slaves. Flash foils his captors and forms an expedition to end the tyranny on the planet Mesmo.

La fantasía y el encanto del cuento clásico, trasladados a la historia de una adolescente en el siglo XXI. Natalicia Cenicienta, una bailadora empedernida, hace todo con tal de no perderse el Baile del Amor y la Amistad, donde su destino ha de cruzarse con el del Príncipe en un incidente desafortunado. Tras la fuga, él emprenderá la búsqueda guiado por el olor de aquel tenis sudado y la buscará incansablemente, aunque no precisamente para casarse con ella.

Delightfully told in original verse, this charming story takes place in the middle of the forest where a tower stands, a tower with neither stairs nor door and at the top of which lives a lovely young woman with flowing hair. When a handsome prince discovers her trapped there, he tries to rescue young Rapunzel, unaware of the witch who put her in the predicament in the first place.

Billy, Bill, and William, the three Gruff Brothers, are preparing to cross the bridge to get to a lush meadow on the other side of the river. Unfortunately, a terrible troll lives beneath the bridge, and his favorite meal happens to be billy goat - the fatter the better!

Do you need help getting your children to love reading? This audiobook will help to train your childen's imaginations. This is not just the story your children already know. We produce the popular stories as new.

"The Flying Trunk" is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. A young man squanders his inheritance until he has almost nothing left. A friend sends him a trunk with directions to pack up and be off. Having nothing to pack, he gets into the trunk himself, only to discover that the trunk is enchanted and carries him to the land of the Turks.

Geoffrey Chaucer, born around 1340, was the first great English poet. The immense popularity of the "Canterbury Tales" is shown by the number of manuscript copies still in existence. It was one of the first books printed in England. The vividness with which the author describes scenes and events and people, as if he had them before his eyes, is one of his greatest charms as a writer. Those who know him best, place him second only to Shakespeare as a writer of delightful English.

Blanche-Neige inculpée ! Les dessous de l'affaire Cendrillon ! Le prince charmant démasqué ! Le scandale des contes de fées ! Voici "Le petit chaperon rouge", "Les trois petits cochons" et autres contes classiques revus et corrigés avec humour par Roald Dahl et Quentin Blake. Reconnaîtrez-vous ces contes étonnants et épouvantablement comiques ?