Audiobooks
We are excited to share a special collection of audiobooks in partnership with Bolinda BorrowBox.
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Our audiobook collection offers an enticing invitation to enter different worlds, cultures and experiences. So plug in to your phone, laptop, ipad or desktop and enjoy this amazing collection.
Hairy Sam Loves Bread and Jam
Written by: Sally Rippin
Narrated by: Gareth Prosser
Recommended for 7+
Sam makes a mess when he eats jam. Can he fix it? Yes, he can! Hairy Sam just can't help himself. He loves bread and jam! But what happens when he gets sticky jam all over the school and the other monsters? He'll have to figure out a way to save the day.
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Sally's Spotlight
A Monster Calls
Written by: Patrick Ness
Narrated by: Jason Isaacs
Recommended for 7+
Costa Award winner and Guardian Prize winning author Patrick Ness delivers an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss.
The monster showed up after midnight. As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting. He’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming …
This monster is something different though. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor.
It wants the truth.
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About the Author
Patrick Ness is the multi-award-winning author of books for adults, young adults and children. A Monster Calls, inspired by an idea by the late Siobhan Dowd and which Patrick also adapted for the screen (2016, starring Sigourney Weaver, Liam Neeson and Felicity Jones), is published in forty languages. An adaptation of the first in his Chaos Walking trilogy - starring Tom Holland (Spiderman) and Daisy Ridley (Star Wars) – was released in 2021.
Patrick has won every major prize in children’s fiction, including the Carnegie Medal twice, and he won the Olivier Award for the stage adaptation of A Monster Calls. He created and wrote the 8-part BBC Doctor Who spinoff Class and as a screenwriter has written for Fox, Lionsgate, Apple, Warner Brothers and Entertainment One. His new middle grade series, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody, is being published by Walker this September 2024.
Find all his books at https://patrickness.com/
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inspire people to live their best lives through the power of storytelling. BorrowBox is a digital library experience that gives readers and listeners access to thousands of eBooks and eAudiobooks for free, with nothing more than a quick download and the details on their library card.