Do you hear what we hear? (our 2015 in audio books)

Our school is an hour away from our house. This sounds crazy, I realize. However, they only go two days a week. The husband takes them, because it is in the general vicinity of his place of employ, and I pick them up. Before we started all of this driving, I had never been very keen on audio books. We had listened to our memory work, and some Story of the World (our history curriculum), but in general, I struggle with auditory input. However, I have come around. The husband buys digital copies (he has an audible account, because he is a long-time audio book listener), but I check out the cd's from the library--cheaper, but occasionally frustrating if the cd is scratched.

 The husband tackles the adventure sagas on their way to school. They have listened to:

1. The Hobbit
2. My Side of the Mountain (and the sequel, I think?)
3. The Sword in the Stone
4. The Wingfeather Saga
5. The Ranger's Apprentice (I think they are on book 8)

And here is what we've heard on our drive home so far:

6. Ginger Pye
7. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
8. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
9. Trumpet of the Swan
10. Half Magic
11. The Indian in the Cupboard (plus 2 sequels)
12. Gregor the Overlander

The absolute favorite has been the Wingfeather Saga. The least favorite was Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, because the reader's voice was pretty cloying and annoying. A good British voice is the best for audio books, we generally agree (and male over female, though the author of The Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks, is terrific. Probably ONLY because she is British), although we didn't mind when Andrew Peterson took over the reading in book 3 of Wingfeather. And there is nothing more endearing and charming than E.B. White's voice on Trumpet of the Swan.

I am still keeping lists of all the books we read, and I have real hopes to do something useful with them at some point. Which I have been saying since 2009. How about a few random pictures to wrap up?