(CNN) — Parents, rejoice.
As schools and workplaces close due to the coronavirus pandemic, leaving many parents at home with their kids all day, Amazon has offered a small reprieve.
Starting Saturday, audiobook service Audible — which is owned by Amazon — is offering free streams on a select number of children’s stories across six languages to keep kids “dreaming, learning, and just being kids,” its website said. The service will be available for as long as schools are closed, it said.
The books are separated into six categories: “Littlest Listeners,” “Elementary,” “Tween,” “Teen,” “Literary Classics” and “Folk & Fairy Tales for All.”
And you don’t even have to be a kid to enjoy them. The books available include “Heidi,” “Jane Eyre,” “Roots” and “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
Books are available in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Italian.
Audible Stories: Free Audiobooks for Kids Audible.com. For as long as schools are closed, we're open. Right now, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across eight different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids. All stories are free. Audible Is Offering Free Audiobooks for Kids During School Closures Check out our top picks. As hard and uncertain as things are right now, there are pieces of good news everywhere. Listening to stories read aloud is proven to help improve kids' reading skills. At Audible, parents can download the best children's audiobooks for road trips, fun, and learning for babies, elementary, and middle school kids.
A typical Audible subscription is $14.95/month.
19 hours ago During the initial lockdown of in March 2020, which saw schools close for the first time, audiobooks site Audible announced it would share hundreds of kids’ books for free.
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