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Old 02-14-2016, 01:19 AM   #115
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Children's Audio available on Youtube

I guess this should go here. These are audios intended for children but they're not audiobooks -- they're audio performances, but very minimal. The series is called The Growler Tapes. I had almost the entire collection on cassette back in the 90s when my kids were younger. We played them in the car whenever we had to drive -- which was often. The series won several awards and was featured on WNYE back in the mid-90s when that station was focused on programs of interest to pre-schoolers and pre-adolescent kids.

The stories are very imaginative with subjects like a missing "portable hole" (Growler Radio 3, Way Out) and a book that answers questions, but always lies (Growler Radio 5, Book of Lies). Each episode is about half an hour long. The kids and I loved them -- but, in all honesty, my wife found the voices annoying.

Each story features the same cast of characters, but they all stand alone and you can start anywhere. The target audience is kids aged 6 to 12, but I think there's a lot of leeway.

They appear to have been posted to Youtube by the series owner. The link to Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-N...w=0&shelf_id=0

The series' home page is still up, but I don't know if it's being actively maintained.

http://www.growler.com/
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