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Storynory - Audio Stories for Kids

FREE audio stories for children, including fairytales, original stories, myths, poems, music, history and audiobooks all read beautifully by professional actors.

Fairy Tales Brothers Grimm - Aesop - 1001 Nights - Hans Christian Andersen	Classic Authors Stories and poems by classic authors including Lewis Carroll ...
Original Stories Bertie Stories - Wicked Uncle - Lapis - Fairy Tales - Astropup	Myths and World Stories Myths of Greece, Rome, ancient Norse legends, and stories from ...
Junior Stories A selection of stories that are short and sweet and should appeal to ...	Educational Stories History, Bible stories, King Arthur, Saints, Robin Hood – and ...

 

 

History

 

Victorians: The life of Mary Seacole

The life and adventures of Mary Seacole told in three short video episodes.

 

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell tells the story of his life and describes how he invented the telephone.

 

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale tells the story of her life and how she grew up to become a nurse.

 

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman explains how she escaped slavery and then helped others to do so.

 

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel shares how he became an engineer and tunnelled through Box Hill.

 

Mary Anning

Mary Anning describes how her astonishing fossil finds changed scientific thinking.

 

Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner tells the story of his life and the vaccination against smallpox.

 

Elizabeth Fry

Elizabeth Fry describes how she reformed life for prisoners and their families in prison.

 

Grace Darling

Grace Darling describes the night she and her father rowed out in a boat to save sailors.

 

Rosa Parks

How Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat changed the rules of American society.

 

Thomas Barnardo

Thomas Barnardo tells the story of setting up his first home for London's street children.

 

Introducing Shakespeare

Leah and Vicky visit Shakespeare's birth place Stratford-upon-Avon and go to London to see scenes from his plays at Shakespeare's Globe.

 

Boudica

An exploration of life in Britain at the time of Boudica’s rebellion through the eyes of a typical family.

 

Henry VIII and Elizabeth I

Find out about the lives of two extraordinary Tudor monarchs: Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

 

Samuel Pepys and The Great Fire of London

Explore London - and the River Thames in particular - in the period immediately before the Great Fire.

 

Stephenson, Anning, Brunel and Queen Victoria

Celebrating famous Victorians: the Stephensons, Brunel, Mary Anning and Queen Victoria herself.

 

Columbus and Magellan

A song celebrating two great explorers - Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan.

 

Online audio stories for children: for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 primary school pupils, aged 4 - 11. Stories cover a broad range of primary topics. Stories are grouped by theme and Key Stage and are typically about 5 minutes long. Ideal for fostering speaking and listening skills and stimulating children's imaginations. New stories added week by week.

Travel and Transport

Early Years / Key Stage 1

Music

EYFS / Key Stage 1 / Key Stage 2 - Stories for all ages exploring the wonder of music.

Animals

EYFS / Key Stage 1 / Key Stage 2 - Stories featuring all kinds of animals... both familiar and extraordinary.

Space

EYFS / Key Stage 1 / Key Stage 2 Stories about journeys into space... and aliens visiting the Earth!

Weather and Seasons

EYFS / Key Stage 1 / Key Stage 2 Stories exploring or inspired by the weather and seasons.

Fantasy

EYFS: Fantastic fantasy stories.

Fables

EYFS / Key Stage 1 / Key Stage 2: Fables - many adapted from Aesop... some not.

Food

Audio stories about pancakes and ice creams!

Special days

Audio stories about special days.

Relationships

Audio stories with a focus on personal relationships.

 

Tradtional stories and stories from diverse cultures

Audio versions of traditional stories from diverse cultures.

 

Bible stories

KS1 / KS2. Stories from the Bible.

 

Festivals

Key Stage 1 / Key Stage 2 - Stories linking to Diwali, Hanukkah, Holi and Harvest...

 

Christmas

Key Stage 1 / Key Stage 2 - Three stories for Christmas...with more to follow.

 

Historical stories

Age 9 - 11. Bringing the past alive with stories about real life people and events. These stories have been selected from our collection of 'Audio stories'.

 

School

Key Stage 1 / Key Stage 2 A story about starting at a new school... with more to follow.

 

Time for a Story (BBC Scotland)

A collection of audio stories for young children.

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