Audiobooks by Ellen Wettersten

Highlights Listen & Learn!: A Year on the Savannah: An Immersive Audio Study for Grade 3

"Highlights Listen & Learn! Audio Studies are the perfect tools for educators, parents, and students. With full lessons that present key comprehension skills, an educational audiobook, and multiple-choice questions, these studies help listeners better understand elements such as plot, characterization, vocabulary, and other essential foundational skills. This Highlights Listen & Learn! Audio Study, intended for those in grade three, introduces listeners to a variety of animals that are native to the savannah in Africa. As listeners learn about these animals, they are also introduced to the multiple seasons that occur, while also spotlighting the Maasai people who have lived in East Africa for centuries. This Audio Study focuses on identifying a sequence of events, how to compare and contrast, and key vocabulary words throughout the nonfiction narrative. Highlights has always been an essential part of childhood, inspiring memorable experiences for generations of families. Highlights' Fun with a Purpose philosophy has helped children grow to become their best selves-curious, creative, caring, and confident. Listen & Learn! Audio Studies will entertain and engage young children while encouraging literacy, self-confidence, and joyful learning!"

Ellen Wettersten, Highlights For Children (Author), Highlights For Children, Pete Cross (Narrator)

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Highlights Listen & Learn!: Folktales From Around The World: An Immersive Audio Study for Grade 6

"Highlights Listen & Learn! Audio Studies are the perfect tools for educators, parents, and students. With full lessons that present key comprehension skills, an educational audiobook, and multiple-choice questions, these studies help listeners better understand elements such as plot, characterization, vocabulary, and other essential foundational skills. This Highlights Listen & Learn! Audio Study, intended for those in grade six, contains folktales from many different cultures and discusses the main ideas within them. Tales explore topics like friendship, trust, and hope. In addition to the story, this Audio Study provides a full lesson on cause and effect relationships, how to compare and contrast, and building vocabulary. Highlights has always been an essential part of childhood, inspiring memorable experiences for generations of families. Highlights' Fun with a Purpose philosophy has helped children grow to become their best selves-curious, creative, caring, and confident. Listen & Learn! Audio Studies will entertain and engage young children while encouraging literacy, self-confidence, and joyful learning!"

Ellen Wettersten, Highlights For Children (Author), Highlights For Children, Pete Cross (Narrator)

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How Dog Came to Live with People: A Folktale from Africa

"In this African folktale, a group of animals find themselves cold and wet from the rainy season. They decide to send Dog to get fire from the humans to keep them warm and dry. The story that unfolds explains how dogs became people's best friends and shows us that there are many different ways to make friends."

Ellen Wettersten (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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All in a Day's Work: A Folktale from Norway

"Highlights presents All in a Day's Work retold by Ellen Wettersten. When a husband comes in from the fields tired and claiming his work is much harder than his wife's, the wife suggests they swap jobs the following day to give them an equal chance of experiencing the other's work."

Ellen Wettersten (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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Cinderella: A Folktale from France

"Highlights presents Cinderella retold by Ellen Wettersten. Cinderella's stepmother is mean to Cinderella and makes her do all the hard work of the house. When Cinderella's stepsisters are invited to a ball at the palace, Cinderella is visited by her godmother, who turns Cinderella's rags into a gown and makes glass slippers appear. At the palace, the prince and Cinderella dance until midnight. Cinderella has to leave in a rush, but she never gives the prince her name. The prince must search the town to find her, using only a glass slipper she left behind."

Ellen Wettersten (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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Coyote and the Acorns: A Folktale from the Yurok

"Highlights presents Coyote and the Acorns retold by Ellen Wettersten. Coyote wants to know how to make sour acorn cakes. After some women explain the process to him, Coyote is convinced they are tricking him since the process sounds too easy. A woman then does trick Coyote by coming up with a pretend recipe. After Coyote tries the process, he realizes he has been tricked."

Ellen Wettersten (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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By Land or Sea: Voices Leveled Library Readers

"Highlights presents By Land or Sea written by Ellen Wettersten. This audiobook details the major events that led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War. The setting is colonial Boston. The audiobook tells of life in Boston during that period. It also tells of secret meetings, spies, and battles between Great Britain and the Continental Army that eventually resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Paris and the end of the Revolutionary War."

Ellen Wettersten (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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Help for the Golden Lion Tamarins

"This book is about tamarins, which are monkeys that are native to Brazil in South America. They need the rain forests to survive, but people cut down trees for wood and cleared the land for farming. Tamarins weigh less than two pounds and are less than a foot long. There are many varieties of tamarins, including the golden lion tamarin. Tamarins are being raised at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, to be released into the rainforest in Brazil. The goal is to reach 2,000 tamarins in the wild by 2025."

Ellen Wettersten (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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The Underground Railroad

"This book tells about many of the important people who helped make the Underground Railroad so successful."

Ellen Wettersten (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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A Year on the Savannah: Voices Leveled Library Readers

"Highlights presents A Year on the Savannah written by Ellen Wettersten. A variety of animals that are native to the savannah in Africa are featured. Their physical characteristics, habits, and behaviors are presented. The changing seasons of this area of the world are also described month by month. In addition listeners get a look at life on the savannah, spotlighting the Masai people who have lived on the savannah in East Africa for centuries."

Ellen Wettersten (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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The Baker and His Neighbor

"When a greedy baker tries to make his neighbor pay for enjoying the smell of his baking bread, he soon learns that solutions to problems must be fair for everyone."

Ellen Wettersten (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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The Mouse Girl

"Once there was a husband and wife in India. The husband was a wise man, and he used his powers to change a mouse into a little girl. When the daughter was ready to marry, the wise man searched for the strongest thing to marry his daughter. In the end, the strongest was a mouse, and the wise man turned his daughter back into a mouse so the two could live happily ever after."

Ellen Wettersten (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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