Reading aloud to children is a very important part of early literacy education. In addition to being entertained children learn a lot of important reading skills and behaviors modeled by adults. Elementary school teachers and children's librarians know the importance of story time and read aloud so I thought it would be best for me to search for podcasts of people reading children's literature.
I used the search engine PodcastAlley.com using the term children's story time to search for podcasts. I liked Storynory: Audio Stories for Kids. I listened to a few podcasts and then went to the website http://storynory.com/ and discovered a wonderful website. There was a wide variety of story podcasts available to download and the best part is that they are free. There is a wide range of stories to choose from: fairy tales from Hans Christen Anderson and the Brother Grimm, Aesop, Bible stories, Greek Myths, stories from classic authors such as Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens and poems by Edgar Allen Poe, and William Blake, even the entire book "Alice in Wonderland". The storyteller, Natasha Gostwick, has a sweet voice with a British accent. She reads at a nice even pace and clearly enunciates each word.
One of my favorite books as a child was "Alice in Wonderland". There is a new movie version of "Alice in Wonderland'" set to open in March. I like to read aloud books that have had a movie based on them to my students to compare and contrast the movie and book. So I have decided to include a link to the first chapter here: http://storynory.com/2006/09/24/alices-adventures-in-wonderland-by-lewis-carroll/
podcast
http://media.libsyn.com/media/blogrelations/alice1.mp3
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