At 4 hours and 8 minutes, The Odyssey is the longest of Odds Bodkin’s epic audio tales, but the others average well over 70 minutes.
The Little Proto Trilogy, his original dinosaur adventure series, is more than 3 hours of immersive listening for kids 4 and up. They’ll listen again and again and again, especially at bedtime.
Get all these and 12 other FULL-LENGTH STORYTELLING ALBUMS on the EPIC DRIVE.
Sit them down to listen on a good sound system. Odds Bodkin’s famous “sound effects bursts” begin each Little Proto audio adventure.
This isn’t “Once Upon a Time.”
This is roaring wind, made with the human voice. Crickets. Far off dino calls. Three-ton foot falls.
Building underneath, there’s 12-string guitar music.
Then a young dinosaur’s voice. “I’m listening for the hoots of Iguanodons…” Little Proto sings. You can listen here:
So begin all three ultra-kid-friendly Little Proto dinosaur adventure stories. Generations of parents have bought them for their children ages 3 and up.
And now, you can buy them for your kids, too!
No TV required.
3 hours and 20 minutes about a young dinosaur growing up. Good for falling asleep, too.
Tales from ancient Greece, England, Denmark, South Africa, Russia, China, Native America, India, France, Japan, the good old USA and more. Told with characters, fun vocal effects and live acoustic music.
Award-Winning Odds Bodkin Stories.
Just because your body’s locked down, doesn’t mean your mind should be.
Odds’ storytelling – including sound effects, voice, music, pacing, wit and style – is both versatile and relevant. It is a talent that needs witnessing and preservation. All the stories I’ve so far listened to have been precise and polished, a cut above anything else I’ve seen from others at live shows and readings. Odds is a true artist, who understands the weight of virtue and fiction. A true role model for the ages. This is one of the best (if not the best purchases/investments) I’ve made all year. I’m excited to share it with my family. At $99, this is really quite a steal … given The Odyssey alone is worth as much. (Not to mention, other such amazing series in this collection – Hercules, The Hidden Grail, etc…)
Well, there are always Odds Bodkin stories to free your child’s mind. The first few seconds are usually enough to engage their attention, even children accustomed to a constant flow of visual stimuli like TV or video games. Odds’ stories are for kids 4 and up. There are many age-appropriate categories.
To buy Odds Bodkin’s audio stories as downloads, you don’t have to go out, which is a good thing nowadays. Instead, just visit his online shop, purchase what interests you, and download to your device. The mp3s are ready to play. Nature stories. Fairy tales. Viking myths. Greek mythology. From two-minute tales to spoken-word epics that last for hours. All told with characters, music and a legendary joie de vivre, which we all need around now.
Joie de vivre. That’s French for “the joy of life.”
Find out more here.
It goes without saying: good luck to everyone. Stay safe and healthy. We’re in a national emergency.
At Odds Bodkin’s Shop, instead of buying hand sanitizer bottles for $1.00 and selling them for $70.00 during this emergency, we’ve decided to go the other way.
We’re dropping prices.
The coronavirus is forcing folks to self-isolate, and to make matters worse, the kids are home, too. Needless to say, they won’t be able to hear Odds tell stories at their schools.
So to help keep literacy learning going while kids are at home, we’ve dropped prices on Odds’ audio story collections.
Hours and hours of award-winning family listening. All with original music and characters.
To get your mind off what’s going on.
The EPIC DRIVE is a flash drive loaded with 18 full-length storytelling albums by Odds Bodkin.
Beloved by kids and adults alike, here are the titles:
The Adventures of Little Proto
Little Proto’s T-Rex Adventure
Little Proto and the Volcano’s Fire
The Teacup Fairy
The Evergreens
With Twinkle in your Eye
Rip Roarin’ Paul Bunyan Tales
The Winter Cherries
The Blossom Tree
The Wise Little Girl
Earthstone
The Odyssey: An Epic Telling
Giant’s Cauldron
The Hidden Grail
Stories of Love
David and Goliath
Beowulf: The Only One
The Myth of Hercules
Each mp3 file comes with an age recommendation and the original cover art. PayPal makes it easy and we ship by the next day.
Story Preservation Initiative, or SPI, has launched something new. The organization, renowned for its interviews with famous people–interviews that older students can access online–has added something new for younger students, K-3.
Here’s a fall 2019 teacher review:
“There are five wonderfully told stories along with PDF multifaceted lesson plans. The stories are engaging and Odds Bodkin has amazing effects to bring each to life. The fables are definitely geared to celebrating our natural world. The Evergreens, for example is a fable about deciduous versus evergreen trees and about why they loose their leaves. The lesson plans give you multiple ways to tie the books into different core standards.”
So if it’s “raining tacos” in your car and that’s driving you crazy, consider The Little Proto Trilogy, three feature-length dinosaur stories by Odds Bodkin. Good for ages four and up. They’re audios, but so full of sound and action they feel like movies. Great adventures. Solid life lessons. Lots of laughs. Even songs to sing.
Buy it today and receive a free autographed Odyssey Poster/Map with your purchase. A full color poster on one side, and a map of the Mediterranean world on the other, this 16″x20″ map shows where, according to scholars’ best guesses, all 42 episodes of The Odyssey took place.
Epics and Children’s Downloads for Christmas. Explore Odds Bodkin’s Shop for last minute storytelling gifts like The Odyssey: An Epic Telling (four hours) for older kids and teens, The Little Proto Trilogy for the 4-6 year olds in your life, or Beowulf: The Only One for adults who love a classic yarn.
All told with live character voices, music and sounds .