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PlainTales Unabridged Classic and Original Audio Stories for Young Listeners

Listen on your home stereo, car CD player or burn them to your computer and listen to them on your iPod or mp3 player. PlainTales stories are full of adventure, excitement and mystery. They`re a great source of entertainment and enlightenment for the whole family.


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The list of unabridged, classic stories by PlainTales includes such famous tales as:

The list of original and retold PlainTales stories includes:


News

PlainTales New Storytelling CDs Win Parents’ Choice Awards

Des Moines, IA (April 22, 2009) – New storytelling CDs from PlainTales have... Read more

PlainTales at Kidsfest 2009 in Des Moines

The PlainTales team had a great time at Kidsfest 2009. The show was well attended... Read more

PlainTales Launches New Lines of Storytelling CDs for Kids

Where to Find Great Storytelling? It’s “Plain” to See as PlainTales... Read more

PlainTales Announces Three New Lines

PlainTales Press Releases Announcing Three New Lines From PlainTales With a... Read more


Blog

Disney releases children’s classics on DVD

As part of their “Disney Animation Collection” Disney has released... Read more

The Power of Stories

One of the reasons I founded PlainTales was because I believe so strongly in... Read more

Listening to Hans Christian Andersen

PlainTales recently released an unabridged collection of Hans Christian Andersen... Read more

The Children’s Audio Book World

One of the reasons I decided to start an audio publishing company is because... Read more

PlainTales Audio CDs

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Paul Bunyan and Other American Tall Tales

Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Davy Crockett are some of the roughest, toughest... Read more

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The Gingerbread Boy and Other First Tales

Some stories are so timeless we can’t wait to share them with our children.... Read more

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Johnny Appleseed and Other American Legends

What makes an American legend? Find out in these fascinating stories of three... Read more

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Animal Tales: Raccoon, Bear and Coyote

To survive a bleak winter, Hazard the coyote must find food for his pack, even... Read more

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Tales from the Book of Dragons

When young Lionel is whisked from his nursery one morning and crowned king,... Read more

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The Reluctant Dragon

From the author of The Wind in the Willows comes this story of a boy who befriends... Read more

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Selected Just So Stories

Why does the giraffe have spotty skin? Why do melons taste just so? An insatiably... Read more

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The Tailor of Gloucester and Other Tales by Beatrix Potter

Mice who sew a coat for a sick tailor. A frog whose fishing trip goes awry.... Read more

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The Ugly Duckling and Other Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen is one of the world’s ten most translated authors,... Read more

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The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

A golden statue comes to life and, with the help of a reluctant swallow, gives... Read more

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Tales From the Arabian Nights

To save herself from certain death, the beautiful Scheherazade must beguile... Read more

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King Midas and Pandora’s Box by Nathaniel Hawthorne

King Midas is obsessed with gold: counting it, touching it, imagining it. But... Read more

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Rip Van Winkle + The Devil and Tom Walker

Lazy Rip Van Winkle “would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound,”... Read more

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The Velveteen Rabbit + Rosy’s Journey

Do toys have feelings? In Margery William Bianco’s sentimental classic, the... Read more

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Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Classic Fairy Tales

Imagine a time of fairies and giants, when good always triumphed over evil,... Read more

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Hansel and Gretel and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm

During the nineteenth century, brothers Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm traveled across... Read more