The Holidays & Celebrations category has 509 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 318 ratings. The most-rated is A Boy Called Christmas.
Fancy Nancy: Candy Bonanza
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Join Fancy Nancy in New York Times best-selling team Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser's Fancy Nancy: Candy Bonanza! Today is Halloween, and Nancy can't wait to collect candy from each house she visits. But it's hard to leave all those delectable treats in her pumpkin pail. Is there such a thing as too much candy? Fans of Fancy Nancy will delight in this Halloween storybook adventure!
©2015 Jane O'Connor (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers
The True Gift
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All year long, Lily and Liam look forward to Christmas on their grandparents' farm. It's always the perfect trip -- walking to the lilac library, trimming the tree, giving gifts. But this year, thanks to a white cow alone in the meadow, things will be different. This Christmas, Lily and Liam will find out the meaning of a true gift. From one of our most beloved authors comes a brand-new holiday classic that rings in the season by celebrating the joys of family, community, and true giving.
©2009 Patricia MacLachlan (P)2009 Simon & Schuster
The Night Before Christmas Audiobook
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Jeff Bridges' iconic voice brings the beloved holiday classic story "The Night Before Christmas" to life! Celebrate the holiday season with the only audiobook of "The Night Before Christmas", read by the Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges. No other narrator brings Santa and these merry scenes to life quite like Mr. Bridges - it's an instant Christmas classic! Create a new family tradition as you add this audiobook to your holiday activities leading up to December 25th. Mr. Bridges' reading is perfect for the whole family, no matter if you are 1 or 101.
Public Domain (P)2016 Simon & Schuster
Junie B. Jones and That Meanie Jim's Birthday
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Guess who's not invited? That meanie Jim has invited everyone in Room Nine to his birthday party on Saturday - except Junie B.! Should she have her own birthday party six months early and not invite Jim? Or should she move to It's a Small World After All in Disneyland?
©1996 Barbara Park (P)2001 Random House Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group
The Nutcracker
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New York Times best-selling artist Susan Jeffers has created a Nutcracker unlike any that has gone before, with a lovely spare text based on the ballet. This is the perfect gift to share with children before they see The Nutcracker. Everyone who has seen the ballet will cherish it - as will anyone who enjoys stories where love triumphs. Come, take a front-row seat. The world's most beloved holiday fairy tale is about to begin.
©2007 Susan Jeffers (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers
The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas
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This rip-roaring romp of a Christmas story is read by Tom and Dougie, and features a host of festive sound effects and a whole lot of poo!! Danny wants everything for Christmas. But what he gets is a dinosaur, a very hungry dinosaur. Danny's new dino eats up all of Christmas, but as we all know, what goes in must come out.... Danny is about to have the most explosive Christmas of his life! There's poop, presents and prehistoric creatures in this festive feast!
©2012 Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter (P)2014 Random House Audiobooks
A Poem for Every Day of the Year
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A Poem for Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year. The collection is passionately narrated by Helena Bonham Carter and Simon Russell Beale, with introductions read by Allie Esiri and contributions from Damian Lynch and Peter Forbes. Reflecting the changing seasons and linking to events on key dates - funny for April Fool's Day, festive for Christmas - these poems are thoughtful, inspiring, humbling, informative, quiet, loud, small, epic, peaceful, energetic, upbeat, motivating and empowering! Perfect for listening to with all the family, this audiobook is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites and exciting new discoveries. T. S. Eliot, John Betjeman, Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare and Christina Rossetti sit alongside Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy and Kate Tempest. This soul-enhancing audiobook is the perfect gift that will last the whole year, with a little bit of magic to hear every day. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the Track Listing and Acknowledgements can be found on a supplementary PDF which is available to download in your Library section along with the audio on our desktop site.
©2017 Allie Esiri (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
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Tony Robinson stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's renowned Christmas story, which inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker.
It is Christmas Eve, and young Mary and Fred are opening presents from their godfather, Drosselmeier the toymaker. Mary's favourite gift is a nutcracker soldier, and she is disappointed when his jaw breaks on a particularly hard nut.
She puts him away carefully, promising that Drosselmeier will mend him - and at that moment he seems to come alive. Surely she is just imagining things. But as the grandfather clock begins to chime midnight, all her toys spring to life! Led by the Nutcracker, they rush into battle with an army of mice who emerge from beneath the floorboards - including the seven-headed Mouse King....
Hoffmann's classic children's tale is adapted by Brian Sibley (who also dramatised The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia for radio). Starring Tony Robinson as the Nutcracker, Edward de Souza as Drosselmeier, Eric Allen as the Mouse King and Angela Shaftoe as Mary, it is sure to delight fans of Tchaikovsy's famous ballet - and anyone who loves the magic of a good fairy tale.
©2015 BBC Worldwide Ltd (P)2015 BBC Worldwide Ltd
A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time
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Jack and Annie's mission from Merlin the Magician? To help the famous writer Charles Dickens! In a magical whirl, the brother and sister are whisked back in time to Victorian England and the foggy streets of London. There, Jack and Annie discover that Charles Dickens has everything he could possibly want. How can they help him? It is not until Mr. Dickens rescues them from being thrown in jail that they discover his secret past and the sad memories that haunt him. They will need all their magic - and help from three ghosts - to keep the great writer from ruining his life!
©2010 Mary Pope Osborne (P)2010 Listening Library
The Mystery on the Train
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The Boxcar Children love exploring the train, watching the beautiful scenery from the observation car, and eating in the dining car. But the train ride gets really interesting when they meet a young woman who has had something very valuable stolen from her. Can the Aldens solve the mystery before the train pulls into the last stop?
©1996 Albert Whitman & Co. (P)2014 Oasis Audio
The Mystery at the Calgary Stampede
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One warm night, four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from.
©2016 Albert Whitman & Co. (P)2016 Oasis Audio
Piper Reed Gets a Job
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Piper Reed and her fellow Gypsy Club members are in need of a clubhouse. Raising money to buy one proves a challenge. Piper, being the resourceful fifth grader that she is, launches her own party-planning business and gets her first job throwing young Brady's birthday celebration. But things don't go as expected on the day of the big event. Fortunately for Piper, her friends and family come to her rescue!
©2009 Kimberly Willis Holt (P)2009 Listening Library
Jake & The Gingerbread Wars
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Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men…and Gingerbread Men?! After his harsh beginnings as a rough-and-tumble orphan on the streets of London, Jake Everton takes his rightful place as the long-lost heir of an aristocratic family with magical powers - his personal quest, to follow in his slain parents' footsteps as a Lightrider in the age-old battle of good versus evil. In the fantastical nooks and crannies of the Victorian Age, Jake and his friends (including his pet Gryphon) find no shortage of adventure - righting magic-related wrongs, solving supernatural mysteries, and exploring wondrous new worlds. Now it's Jake's first Christmas with his eccentric magical relatives, but trouble never takes a holiday.… Santa's Horrid Little Helper Humbug hates being a Christmas elf. Instead of making toys, he'd rather make mischief. Angling for a new job in Halloween Town, he sets out to prove he's frightful enough for the task by ruining Christmas for as many people as possible - until Jake and his friends capture him. The kids set out on a rip-roaring adventure to the North Pole to hand the troublemaker over to Santa. But the way is fraught with danger, leaving them to wonder if they'll make it back in time for Christmas…or if they'll even make it back alive!
©2013 E.G. Foley (P)2014 E.G. Foley
Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: Peril at Owl Park
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For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, Christmas becomes a lot more exciting when a dead body is found in this second book in the Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, inspired by the life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Enola Holmes. Aspiring writer Aggie Morton is looking forward to Christmas. Having just solved a murder and survived her own brush with death in her small town of Torquay on the coast of England, Aggie can't wait to spend the holidays with her sister, Marjorie, the new Lady Greyson of Owl Park, an enormous manor house in the country; Grannie Jane, and her fellow sleuth and partner in crime, Hector Perot. Owl Park holds many delights, including Aggie's almost cousin Lucy, exciting and glamorous visitors from Ceylon, and disguises aplenty in the form of a group of travelling actors, not to mention a secret passageway and an enormous, cursed emerald. Not even glowering old Lady Greyson (the Senior) can interfere with Aggie's festive cheer. But when Aggie and her friends discover a body instead of presents on Christmas morning, things take a deadly serious turn. With the help of a certain nosy reporter, Aggie and Hector will once again have to put their deductive skills and imaginations to work to find the murderer on the loose. Filled with mystery, adventure, unforgettable characters, and several helpings of tea and Christmas pudding, Peril at Owl Park is the second book in a new series for middle-grade listeners and Christie and Poirot fans everywhere.
©2020 Marthe Jocelyn and Isabelle Follath (P)2020 Penguin Random House Canada
The Night Before Christmas
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Here is the magical, classic poem that no Christmas can be without! "Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house..." When Clement Moore wrote a Christmas poem for his children about a magical visit from Saint Nicholas, he had no way of knowing that it would become the best-known and loved holiday poem of all time.
(P)2006 Scholastic Inc.
Pinkalicious: Thanksgiving Helper
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It's Thanksgiving Day, and Pinkalicious and Peter decide to be Thanksgiving helpers!
©2014 Victoria Kann (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers
A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting, Book 1
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The Last Kids on Earth meets Goosebumps in this hilarious new series about a secret society of babysitters who protect kids from the monsters that really do live under their beds! When middle schooler Kelly Ferguson’s Halloween plans switch from party-going to babysitting, she thinks the scariest part of her night will be the death of her social life. But then Baby Jacob gets kidnapped by the Boogeyman’s minions and Kelly learns there’s a whole lot more to childcare than free snacks and Netflix. Like chasing shadow monsters, drop-kicking Toadies, and mastering monster-fighting moves like the Naptime Headlock and Playground Punch. Now, with the help of an ancient handbook and a secret society of butt-kicking babysitters, Kelly sets out to destroy the Boogeyman before he brings Jacob’s nightmares to life. But when the monsters’ trail leads to her school’s big Halloween bash, Kelly will have to prove she can save the world - without totally embarrassing herself in front of her friends. Packed with insider secrets from the world of monster hunting, A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting is full of tricks, treats, and terrifying twists!
©2017 Joe Ballarini (P)2019 Katherine Tegen Books
The Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch
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The eagerly anticipated sequel to Tom Fletcher's best-selling magical adventure The Christmasaurus. 'She is the best-kept Christmas secret of all,' whispered Santa Claus. 'Which is surprising, because Christmas itself would not exist without her. She is older than time itself, yet still as young as tomorrow. She is known only as the Winter Witch.' One year has passed since William Trundle's incredible adventure with the most extraordinary dinosaur: the Christmasaurus. Now, William is swept back to the magical North Pole, where he meets the mysterious, icy Winter Witch - whose power to control time allows Santa Claus to make the long journey all around the world every Christmas Eve. And when they learn that the fate of Christmas itself hangs in the balance, William and the Christmasaurus must work with the Winter Witch to protect it.... Full of magic and music, humour and heart, and a friendship like no other, The Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch is the most enchanting Christmas listen for the whole family.
©2019 Tom Fletcher & Shane Devries (P)2019 Penguin Audio
Flat Stanley and the Haunted House
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Stanley can't wait for the Halloween party at school. But when a bully picks on his friend, Stanley saves the day in no time flat in this Flat Stanley I Can Read adventure! The Lambchops can't wait to be spooked at a Halloween party! Arthur is excited for the haunted house, and Stanley wants to show off his limbo moves. But when they see a bully picking on their friend at the party, the boys know that they have to help. Soon, Stanley comes up with a plan that is flat-out hilarious! Flat Stanley and the Haunted House is a Level Two I Can Read book, geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help.
©2010 The Estate of Jeff Brown (P)2013 HarperCollins Publishers
11 Birthdays
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Amanda is reliving her 11th birthday over and over again - even the fight with her best friend, Leo. How can she fix everything and put the day behind her? Only time, friendship, and luck will tell.
©2009 Wendy Mass (P)2010 Scholastic Inc.