The Listening Grove
Charlotte Mason audiobooks, guided lessons, and learning companions.
The Listening Grove is the Kindred Thicket audio library, the one place to hear the exclusive Kindred Thicket Revised Edition as an audiobook. Each book sits on a simple page with its Charlotte Mason lesson beside the player. You press play and listen right there, free.
The audiobook on a page
Each book sits on a simple page with its Charlotte Mason lesson beside the player. You press play and listen together, no video to watch.
Free to listen
The audiobooks are free, the same as our read-aloud videos on YouTube. The companion guides in print are the paid pieces, linked on every page.
Coming to Yoto
For the car or bedtime, a free Kindred Thicket playlist in the Yoto app is coming soon, so the same narration can travel with your family.
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Questions
- What is The Listening Grove?
- The Listening Grove is the Kindred Thicket audio library, the one place to hear the exclusive Kindred Thicket Revised Edition as an audiobook. These are updated versions of beloved living books, read aloud with the errors corrected, the science and old names brought up to date, and the dated wording put right, while the living language is kept. Each book sits on a simple page with its Charlotte Mason lesson beside the player and a link to the matching companion guide. You listen right there, free, and for the car or bedtime, a free Kindred Thicket playlist in the Yoto app is also coming soon for families who use one.
- How is The Listening Grove different from your YouTube read-alouds?
- On YouTube you watch the read-aloud, with the words and the pictures on the screen. In The Listening Grove you listen: it is the audiobook on a page, with the Charlotte Mason lesson beside the player rather than a full video to watch. The Grove is for listening rather than watching, the same exclusive Kindred Thicket Revised Edition, and a coming Yoto version lets you take it anywhere.
- Is The Listening Grove free?
- The audiobooks are free, the same as our read-aloud videos on YouTube. The companion guides, with every part of the lesson prepared in print, are the paid pieces, and a link to the matching one sits on each book’s page. Two free ways to use Kindred Thicket, the read-aloud videos and the Grove, and one paid companion for those who want it.
- What is the difference between a Revised Edition and an Enhanced Edition audiobook?
- A Kindred Thicket Revised Edition means we updated the text itself and recorded it, so the reading you hear is already corrected. A Kindred Thicket Enhanced Edition means you hear the original book read aloud, and wherever the science or history is out of date, the correction appears beside the player as you listen. Both are the updated version.
- Can we listen in the car or at bedtime?
- In the Grove you press play on a page, with the lesson beside the player. For listening away from the page, a free Kindred Thicket playlist in the Yoto app is coming soon, so the same narration can travel to the car or to bedtime on your Yoto.
- Will this work for a pre-reader, a reluctant reader, or a child with dyslexia?
- Yes. A child can take in the whole living book by ear and narrate beautifully, whether or not she is reading fluently yet. The reading is carried for her, with the lesson beside the player, so the book is open to every child at the table.
- Do I need to prepare anything before I press play? Is it open and go?
- No prep on your end. These are open-and-go lessons. The Charlotte Mason lesson sits beside the player, so you press play and listen together.
- Will it work if I have several ages, or a baby?
- Yes. One reading serves the whole gathering, and each child narrates in her own way, whether she is five or thirteen.
- Which books are in The Listening Grove?
- The Grove grows as we produce. It spans living books across history, nature study, and literature, including the updated editions families ask for most. New titles are added as they are recorded.