Education audiobooks

Original Sins

By: Eve L. Ewing

Narrated by: Robin Miles & Eve L. Ewing

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Why don’t our schools work? Eve L. Ewing tackles this question from a new angle: What if they’re actually doing what they were built to do? She argues that instead of being the great equalizer, America’s classrooms were designed to do the opposite: to maintain the nation’s inequalities. It’s a task at which they excel.

“This book will transform... Read more

The Jesus Storybook Bible

By: Sally Lloyd-Jones

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Trusted and treasured for over a decade,?The Jesus Storybook Bible?has been introducing children to God’s wonderful story, and the Savior at the center of that story.? With over 3 million copies sold,?The Jesus Storybook Bible?is the quintessential book for parents, grandparents, pastors, and anyone else who wants to share God’s??Never Stopping,... Read more

What If? 10th Anniversary Edition

By: Randall Munroe

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A special tenth anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd—revised and annotated with answers to important questions you never thought to ask.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at ninety percent the speed of light?... Read more

Spellbound

By: Phil Hanley

Narrated by: Phil Hanley

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author, comedian and severe dyslexic Phil Hanley, who reveals his unlikely path to success in a story that is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking.

When Phil Hanley was in first grade, he realized something that would forever set him apart from his peers: he couldn’t read. His teachers were ill-equipped to assist... Read more

That Librarian

By: Amanda Jones

Narrated by: Amanda Jones

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents That Librarian written and read by Amanda Jones.

“Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she’s not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories.”—Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards

"Amanda Jones clearly... Read more

The Berenstain Bears Seasonal Collection 2

By: Jan Berenstain & Mike Berenstain

Narrated by: Jill Blackwood

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Young readers will enjoy The Berenstain Bears Seasonal Collection 2, a four-book treasury of Berenstain Bears Living Lights™ audiobooks. Children will learn biblical values through these classic seasonal stories about the familiar and well-loved Bear family.The Berenstain Bears Seasonal Collection 2—part of the popular Zonderkidz Living Lights... Read more

Financial Feminist

By: Tori Dunlap

Narrated by: Tori Dunlap, Samantha Tan, Shayna Small, Jaime ...

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the globally-recognized personal finance educator and social media star behind Her First $100K, an inclusive guide to all things money—from managing debt to investing and voting with your dollarsTori Dunlap was always good with money. As a kid, she watched her prudent parents balance their checkbook every month and learned to save for... Read more

The Good Neighbor

By: Maxwell King

Narrated by: LeVar Burton

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and to taking their fears, concerns, and questions... Read more

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and... Read more

The Coddling of the American Mind

By: Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising—on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen?

First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and... Read more

Permission to Feel

By: Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The mental wellbeing of our children is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do.

"We have a crisis on our hands, and its victims are our children."

Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale University’s Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale... Read more

The Importance of Being Little

By: Erika Christakis

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold challenge to the conventional wisdom about early childhood, with a pragmatic program to encourage parents and teachers to rethink how and where young children learn best by taking the child’s eye view of the learning environmentParents of young children today are embattled: Pick the “wrong” preschool and your child won’t get into the... Read more

The Story of the World, Vol. 1 Audiobook

By: Susan Wise Bauer

Narrated by: Jim Weiss

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

History will never be the same again! This spirited reading of the first in Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World history series brings to life the stories and records of the peoples of ancient times. Now more than ever, other countries and customs affect our everyday lives-and our children need to learn about the people who live all around the... Read more

Make It Stick

By: Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III & Mark A....

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

To most of us, learning something 'the hard way' implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Many common study habits and practice routines... Read more

The Story of the World, Vol. 2 Audiobook

By: Susan Wise Bauer

Narrated by: Jim Weiss

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

History will never be the same again! This spirited reading of the first in Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World history series brings to life the stories and records of the peoples of ancient times. Now more than ever, other countries and customs affect our everyday lives-and our children need to learn about the people who live all around the... Read more

The Age of Choice

By: Sophia Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to believe. But the option to choose in such matters was not something we always possessed or even aspired to. At the same time, we have been warned by everybody from marketing gurus to psychologists... Read more

Integrated

By: Noliwe Rooks

Narrated by: Noliwe Rooks

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author’s family to show how the implementation of integration decimated Black school systems and did much of the Black community a disservice

On May 17, 1954 the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education determined that racial segregation... Read more

How to Take Smart Notes

By: Sönke Ahrens

Narrated by: Nigel Fyfe

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the second, revised and expanded edition. The first edition was published under the slightly longer title "How to Take Smart Notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers".
The key to good and efficient writing lies in the intelligent organisation of ideas and... Read more

Raising Antiracist Children

By: Britt Hawthorne

Narrated by: Stephanie Keiko Kong

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A must-have guide to raising inclusive, antiracist children from educator and advocate, Britt Hawthorne.

Raising antiracist children is a noble goal for any parent, caregiver, or educator, but it can be hard to know where to start. Let Britt Hawthorne—a nationally recognized teacher and advocate—be your guide. Raising... Read more

Free to Learn

By: Peter Gray

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading expert in childhood development makes the case for why self-directed learning — "unschooling" — is the best way to get kids to learn.

"All kids love learning. Most don't love school. That's a disconnect we've avoided discussing—until this lightning bolt of a book. If you've ever wondered why your curious kid is turning into a sullen... Read more

The Water Is Wide

By: Pat Conroy

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“A powerfully moving book . . . You will laugh, you will weep, you will be proud and you will rail.” —Charleston News and CourierYamacraw Island was haunting, nearly deserted, and beautiful. Separated from the mainland of South Carolina by a wide tidal river, it was accessible only by boat. But for the handful of families that lived on Yamacraw,... Read more

The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

By: Christopher Lasch

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as José Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These... Read more

Ungrading

By: Susan D. Blum

Narrated by: Emily Durante, Matthew Josdal & Alfie Kohn

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The moment is right for critical reflection on what has been assumed to be a core part of schooling. In Ungrading, fifteen educators write about their diverse experiences going gradeless. Some contributors are new to the practice and some have been engaging in it for decades. Some are in humanities and social sciences, some in STEM fields. Some... Read more

The Joy of Slow

By: Leslie M. Martino

Narrated by: Leslie M. Martino & Ainsley Arment

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A parent’s guide to cultivating an unhurried lifestyle and education that help their children thrive

In a culture that prizes productivity, efficiency, and success, it’s easy to feel as though we’re constantly falling short and to lose sight of joy. The homeschool community is not exempt from this pressure, but longtime educator Leslie Martino... Read more