Zoe Antoniades Audiobooks

Writers who read their own work for children belong to a small and enviable group, and the Cally and Jimmy recordings place Zoe Antoniades in it: the author is credited as the narrator. That doubling matters in children’s audio, where the timing of a joke lived in the writer’s head first and rarely survives translation intact.

The series follows a set of twins whose talent for trouble is the entire engine, which is one of the most durable premises in the genre. Beyond the work we hold nothing verified, so this page stays where it is useful: with the stories, their shelf and their sound. Children and family, short, and written unmistakably to be read aloud.

Twins in Trouble is the natural place to begin, an introduction to the household and its resident troublemakers, running to under a couple of hours. Twintastic follows in the same register and a little longer, and the listener averages on these recordings sit close to the top of the scale.

They suit the youngest end of the family audio market, roughly the age at which a child will happily replay the same chapter until the adults know it by heart too. The short running times make them ideal for the school run. Listen to a sample below and let the voices make the case.