Lemony Snicket’s series of books about the forever unlucky Baudelaire children is deliciously narrated by Tim Curry, who does the readings for all 13 of the books in this series. The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events Book One) by Lemony Snicket, read by Tim Curry II, with 36 additional recommendations for great family listening. UPDATE 3/20/16: We’ve just published Best Audio Books for Family Road Trips, Vol. Whether you buy them, download them, or find them at your local library, there are plenty here to start some conversations. They had amazing suggestions, including anything by storyteller Odds Bodkin and the children’s audio program Boomerang (GeekMoms Laura and Kris are big fans of both). So I asked the other GeekMoms to help me compile a list of great audio books for family road trips. My Audible subscription is one of my best-ever investments, and now I listen to books on my commute, on car trips, even when I’m working on crafty projects in my studio. And it turned my brother and me into avid audio book listeners. By then we were old enough to entertain ourselves, but when my mom suggested checking some audio books out from the library it gave us something to talk about. As bored as we were, I have great memories of those trips.īut I really wish we’d discovered audio books years before the summer we did my college visits. (My mom even banned Punch Buggy.) It wasn’t always enough to keep us from whining, and I definitely get the appeal of DVD players, headphones, and video games these days, but we talked. We had a travel version of Connect 4, I Spy, and conversation-that was it. My brother and I didn’t even have Walkmans until the 90s were in sight. In my day (hey kids, get off my lawn!) we didn’t have iPods, DVD players, or 3DS’s. (North Carolina, I sincerely apologize on behalf of my older brother for knocking over your sign July 4th weekend in 1987 we did try to put it back.) That means road trip season is here, which can bring up vivid childhood memories of endless hours of boredom, begging for bathroom breaks, and-if you were in my family-taking your life in your hands on the interstate to stop at every single state sign for photo ops. have already been enjoying their summer vacations for weeks. School’s finally out here in the Northeast, while other parts of the U.S. Film still from National Lampoon’s Vacation © Warner Brothers
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