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I like the tablets because it’s easy to move them around – Ani will often bring one of them upstairs and sit on the couch listening while I make dinner or fold laundry, or Ella will set up a tablet on the table while she works on a puzzle. They aren’t allowed to take the tablets in their room, but if they want to listen to them in one of the common areas of our home, they’re more than welcome. We own a variety of tablets and they have Libby, Scribd, Hoopla, Pinna and Audible on them. (I have a whole review of our Yoto Player here). And all four of my girls are hooked on it too. I was dubious about it, but I have to say – I LOVE it. This is such a clever screen-free audio device and it’s super easy for young kids to use.

Echo. We have an Echo in our living room, so if the girls want to listen to something while they color at the table or snuggle up on the couch, I can either play directly from Audible or Hoopla or stream from my phone.

We’ll sit down together every few months and add new books to the Audible Plus library so they can listen, and every month they max out our Hoopla checkouts so they can listen to those all month. The Echo Dots can be used as a Bluetooth speaker, so theoretically, I could play any audiobook off my phone into their room, but it’s a hassle for my phone to be connected to their rooms, so they listen to books from Audible Plus, our Audible library, or Hoopla, since those all can be voice-controlled directly by the Echo Dot, no phone required. My older girls have Echo Dots in their rooms so they can listen, screen-free, during quiet time or as they go to bed. This is exclusively what Tally (my 4 year old) uses in her room. Our library has a decent book on CD collection so every time we visit the library we pick up a stack of new ones that they can listen to in their rooms during quiet time or as they’re going to bed.

Around the time my girls turned three (and were transitioning from naps to quiet time), I showed the girls how they worked a few times and then they were able to use them on their own.

All of my girls have cheap CD players that we picked up at Target or Walmart – this one has medium reviews, but it’s been going strong for years at our house, despite lots of not-so-careful handling. Here are the different ways my girls listen to audiobooks: I am a massive fan of audiobooks for children and I want to make it as easy as possible for my girls to listen on a daily basis. When I launched my free Raising Readers course in 2017, the number one question I got was “What devices do your children listen to audiobooks on?”