Share the Adventure: All our 2021 Audiobooks

We love audiobooks!

Here's a post with our 5 favorites from the year (also denoted on this list with an asterisk*), but I wanted a record of all the ones we listened to in 2021.

Whatever After series - can you tell we like this series? Each one is a fractured fairy tale that Abby and her brother Jonah mess up and then try to fix. The covers look super girly, but the boys really like the stories. These were a good stretch for us because we had previously blazed through the A-Z Mysteries which are about 45 minutes long. These books are about 3 hours, so they helped increase our stamina. We only have one more "special", and the next one comes out in April! Fantastic job by the narrator, too.

#3 Sink or Swim
#4 Dream On
#5 Bad Hair Day
#6 Cold as Ice
#7 Beauty Queen
#8 Once Upon a Frog
#9 Genie in a Bottle
#10 Sugar and Spice
#11 Two Peas in a Pod
#12 Seeing Red
#13 Spills the Beans
#14 Good as Gold
Special #2 Abby in Oz

Mouse and the Motorcycle series - I'm not a huge fan of animal stories, but the boys really liked these.

#1 Mouse and the Motorcycle*
#2 Runaway Ralph
#3 Ralph S. Mouse

Wild Robot series - listened to this on the way to Louisiana. I had started and abandoned this book awhile ago but ended up loving it as an audiobook.

#1 Wild Robot
#2 Wild Robot Escapes

"Classics"

Cricket in Times Square
Charlotte's Web
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A Long Walk to Water*
When Stars are Scattered*

First in the Series - Ninja Kid and Ricky Ricotta are both series that the boys enjoy reading, but we also listened to some of the audio versions, which are fun. I loved The Green Ember, but I'm probably going to have to read it again because I can get a little distracted while listening. I liked the audio version had the narrator singing, "It will not be so in the Mended Wood..." We'll probably listen to other Grandma's Attic books. Stand-alone stories from times gone by with spiritual principles tied in.

Ninja Kid #1
Ricky Ricotta #1
The Green Ember
Grandma's Attic #1

Funny

Hoboken Chicken Emergency
Fortunately, the Milk
Princess Cora and the Crocodile

Mysteries - we tried several different mysteries this year but didn't found a well-loved replacement for the A-Z Mystery series. I loved Boxcar Children books as a kid, but they're so boring to me as an adult. I can barely handle them. Calvin loves them, though, and enjoys listening to them while he does dinner clean-up.