Road-Trip Listening Pack
Your listening plan
2 exact recordings in order for ages 8–12, ready to save as a PDF or print.
- Drive
- 6 hr
- Listening plan
- 4 hr 11 min
- Drive covered
- 70%
Keep the order, notes and library searches offline. Buying options open on the live plan; the audio is downloaded separately.
Listen in this order
- 01
The House at Pooh Corner
Start at departure
By A. A. Milne · read by Peter Dennis
3 hr 13 min · checked ages 5–17
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Tigger joins Pooh's circle, a search goes awry, and the friends reach a quiet goodbye at the edge of childhood.
Edition notes and sources
Evidence limit: Common Sense Media evaluates the complete four-work text at age 5+ and calls the original Pooh books a delight for children and adults; the Christian Science Monitor separately supports the same Peter Dennis audio performance for families. The age cap of 17 is the product's upper input limit. Apple displays 3:13 while Audible displays 3:12, so the longer exact runtime is used. A search, a fall from a tree, an effort to curb Tigger's bouncing, and the final goodbye occur; no complete scene-level or sound-effects audit was performed.
- 02
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Switch after 3 hr 13 min of listening
By Charlie Mackesy · read by Charlie Mackesy
58 min · checked ages 6–17
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Four companions move through the countryside in a quiet sequence of conversations about kindness, fear, asking for help, and finding home.
Edition notes and sources
Evidence limit: BookTrust places the work at interest age 6-11 and says its appeal reaches from children to adults; 17 is the site's upper shared-listening input. The audio is episodic and aphoristic rather than a conventional plotted story, and the source work includes fear and a fox caught in a snare. The professional audio review says music and wildlife sound compensate for missing illustrations, but no complete line-level or effects audit was available; an empty controlled-tag list is not evidence of absence.
Before departure
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- Confirm the narrator and runtime match this pack.
- Preview flagged material when a boundary matters.
- Keep a music or podcast break ready.
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Backup
The Lost Library
4 hr 15 min of listening covers 71% of the 6 hr drive. This option uses one recording.
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