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Full-strength audio drama from the two Heartwood shelves, faith and classics. Every story carries its age band on the label, so you know where your child starts. Play one yourself first, by ear, before your child hears it. Then play the next one. See if you can turn it off.
Treasure Island, chapter 1, written at four levels: ages 6-8, 8-10, 11-14, and the full unabridged book at the top. Two rungs are voiced and playable below: the ages 8-10 retelling at her size today, and the unabridged chapter, every word, beside it. Same seaman, same sabre cut, same sea song.
Classics shelf · Retelling
An old brown seaman with a sabre cut across his cheek takes a room at the Admiral Benbow. He pays in gold and asks one thing: watch for a seafaring man with one leg. Everything after him.
The first rung she climbs. The same story at her size, with the ladder above her. She never outgrows the island. She moves up inside it.
Classics shelf · Unabridged, the full book
The same chapter, every word of it. The old brown seaman, the sabre cut, the sea song, the Admiral Benbow, at full size. Stevenson's own sentences, nothing trimmed.
The top rung. Play the retelling, then play this one, and hear the same story a size bigger. When she outgrows the retelling, the island is still there.
Faith shelf · Bible drama, full cast · Genesis 37
A coat of many colors. A dream of sheaves bowing in a field, and ten brothers who have heard enough. Joseph goes out to the flocks and does not come back.
The Bible as a series, not a storybook. Episode one of a six-episode season from Genesis 37, told as one connected drama with a full cast.
Faith shelf · Original series
The beacon burns all night so the boats and the flocks find their way home. At the end of the supper song it flickers, shrinks, and goes out. Wen's Da is up there, and the fog is on the ford.
An original Heartwood world, part one of a six-part story. Listen for the voice in the fog.
Faith shelf · Classic retelling
Christian carries a heavy bag that will not come off. A lantern stays lit in the window. Far across the plain there is a light to walk to, and a gate to knock at. He walks. The bag goes too.
The opening of Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, retold in plain modern words. A classic your child meets early and can climb for years.
Faith shelf · Bible drama · Luke 15
Tam counts his sheep every night. One hundred, all here. Then one night the count comes up ninety-nine. One very small lamb is out in the dark alone, and Tam goes to find her.
The lost sheep told at full size, where faith moves the plot itself. Built for the little listeners at your knee while the main library serves ages 3 to 12.
Every sample on this page comes from the two Heartwood shelves, faith stories and classics, each labeled with its age band. When the library opens, one subscription unlocks the whole thing: both shelves, every series, and every rung of every classic. Plays on the phones, tablets, and speakers a family owns. No player to buy, no cards.
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