PlainTales Announces Three New Lines

PlainTales Press Releases

Announcing Three New Lines From PlainTales

With a mixture of music, fantastic readers and excellent stories, this brand new range from PlainTales magically brings to life traditional fairy tales and short stories.

Classic tales such as Aladdin, Snow White, The Ugly Duckling, Sleeping Beauty and Jack and the Beanstalk, which help encourage your child’s enjoyment of listening and comprehension.

PlainTales Classics

This is a line of the world’s best unabridged children’s classics.

Age: 6+ years

PlainTales First Tales

This is a collection of retold and dramatized versions of classic children’s stories.

Age: 4+ years

PlainTales Explorers

This collection explores the natural world through stories that are true to life descriptions of the natural world. These stories are told in an engaging and exciting way but grounded in the life cycle of the animals and natural environments being explored.

Age: 6+ years

All of the above titles will be available to buy on CD

Announcing New PlainTales Titles

PlainTales Press Releases

PlainTales Will Focus on Creating the Worlds Best Audio Stories for Children Starting at Age 4

With a mixture of music, fantastic readers and excellent stories, this brand new range from PlainTales magically brings to life traditional fairy tales and short stories.

Classic tales such as Aladdin, Snow White, The Ugly Duckling, Sleeping Beauty and Jack and the Beanstalk, which help encourage your child’s enjoyment of listening and comprehension.

The Velveteen Rabbit and Rosy’s Journey

1. The Velveteen Rabbit
2. Rosy’s Journey

Age: 4+ years

Rip Van Winkle & The Devil and Tom Walker

1. Rip Van Winkle
2. The Devil and Tom Walker

Age: 4-6 years

Hansel and Gretel and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm

1. Hansel and Gretel
2. Rapunzel
3. Snow White
4. The Fisherman and His Wife

Age: 6+ years

Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Classic Fairy Tales

1. Jack and the Beanstalk
2. Sleeping Beauty
3. Puss in Boots
4. Rumpelstiltzkin

Age: 6+ years

Tales From the Arabian Nights

1. Scheherazade
2. Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
3. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Age: 6+

American Tall Tales

1. Johnny Appleseed
2. Davy Crockett
3. Paul Bunyan
4. Pecos Bill

Age: 6+ years

All of the above titles will be available to buy on CD

Why Audio Stories for Kids Starting at Age 3 or 4?

Before my daughter was born I was often a fairly careless consumer of media products. I didn’t watch a ton of TV but I was still prone to surfing the channels and just watching whatever was on. I had a DVD collection but it was a pretty random collection. We had lots of books in the house but they were on odd mix of genres and quality, and included anything from paperback thrillers to the classics.

When our first child was born I started becoming more thoughtful about what media influences I wanted in the house. By the time she was 3 we had great collection of children’s books and I’d purchased a handful of classic story collections as wells as audiobooks, which we liked to listen to in the car or as an alternative to watching TV. Though we did a lot of reading together, we also came to love the audio format because the best audio stories proved to be vastly entertaining and they actually educated me on the story, as well as on how to tell a good story.

For example, we had tried reading Kipling’s Just So Stories without much success. But after hearing a good audio version the stories really came alive. We learned how musical the language really was. After that we both read the stories and listened to the audio version on a regular basis. My own ability to read the stories was vastly improved by having a great example of how to tell the story well.