r/audiobook

Hi guys! We are about to go on a road-trip with my 2 daughters 11 and 9.
I’d like a suggestion for an audio book we can enjoy as a family. Generally I read books aloud, and I’ve read my kids Narnia, Percy Jackson and I’m currently reading them the 5th Harry Potter book, so that won’t work as an audiobook.
We’ve listened to Holes, the Hobbit, and Jennifer Hecate..
I tried Redwall, but the vocabulary was too advanced the 9 year old ( her first language is German, so English is her second language).
Got any ideas?

Author here. I wrote this one under the pen name Michael Howell, and I have a handful of free Audible US codes for it: Measure the Left Foot Twice, Book One of The Last Cobbler. Comment below and I'll DM you a code while they last. US Audible accounts only, sorry.

Heads up before you grab one: the narration is AI-generated (Kokoro TTS), not a human narrator. I'd rather you know up front so nobody's surprised.

What it's about:

Wendell Pike arrives in the border town of Thistlewick with eleven shillings, a cobbler's kit and his dead master's old wooden shoe last. The town has a law that no creature may enter unless it comes shod, and there's a lamia at the gate who has been turned away for nine years because nobody will take her order. So he kneels in the mud and measures her.

From there it's a tail boot argued before the town council, a centaur courier who refuses to be weighed, a master weaver with eight legs and strong opinions about his stitching, plenty of pies, and a town that does not thank him.

It's for you if you like:

- Cozy fantasy with real stakes but no grimdark

- A craftsman hero who solves problems with his trade

- Monster-folk heroines who are nobody's sidekick

- Slow-burn romance, kisses only

- Small-town politics and gentle humor

About 61,000 words, roughly 5 hours of listening.

All I ask is an honest rating or review if you finish it, good or bad. Feedback on the narration is welcome too.

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