Audiobooks narrated by Josiah Bildner

Ages 6-9 She arrived on Halloween Eve, in the Year of Acorns. Benjy named her Tricks. “…excellent tale for young readers.” Kirkus Reviews From award-winning author Darcy Pattison comes a humorous Halloween story with a hard-of-hearing girl who uses ASL (American Sign Language). Mom said, “No pets.” Then, they discover the cat’s owner. Erika has just moved next door to stay with her grandmother while Erika attends the Deaf School. She brought Fluffy, her cat, with her. Fluffy likes to wander the neighborhood and make friends. This delightful Halloween short chapter book is about cats, sign language, and a surprising friendship. It’s perfect for the elementary reader who needs to build confidence in their reading skills. Need a great read-aloud for Halloween? This will delight and entertain the kids, even during this busy holiday. Includes 13 b/w sign language illustrations.

Darcy Pattison (Author), Josiah Bildner (Narrator)

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The Plan for the Gingerbread House

“Pattison’s text begs to be read aloud and Joven’s spreads offer dynamic visuals…” —Kirkus Reviews Come one, come all! The Gingerbread Fair opens soon! Teams of kids are baking, building, and decorating. The project guidelines are clear: the winning house must stand upright on its own and a gingerbread boy and girl must fit inside. Sounds easy? It would be except…cookies burn, the icing is too thin, the house caves-in, someone is eating the candy decorations, and—oh!—they forgot about the gingerbread boy and girl. Follow the team as they struggle to create the perfect gingerbread house. Young engineers will learn to overcome problems and press on to a finished house. At the end, they evaluate their efforts and plan for a better gingerbread house. Need a winter STEM engineering project? This book inspires the budding engineers to think about the classic gingerbread house in a new way. Written in a lyrical rhyme, it’s sure to please the language arts folks, too.

Darcy Pattison (Author), Josiah Bildner (Narrator)

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Freelance Guide Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Freelance Bible and Freelance Work for Beginners

Freelance Guide Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Freelance Bible and Freelance Work for Beginners Most people who think about starting a freelance career just don’t really know where or how to begin. Having a successful freelance career starts with evaluating your own skills and requirements in a job and then finding the right match. Many freelancers establish their businesses online by using one of the popular auction sites, like eBay. But since freelancing is such a big thing now, there are a lot of other websites where you can establish yourself as a freelancer or you can find some freelance work for you like Fiverr. If you participate in freelance forums, it's likely that anyone considering hiring you is going to browse through your past posts and threads to get a feel for your writing style, your personality, and of course, previous feedback and comments posted about you. In this bundle, you will learn how to be a successful freelancer. Discover the ins and outs of the freelancing world to start your own freelancing career. This 2 in 1 bundle includes the following audiobooks: - Freelance Bible: The Essential Guide on How To Start a Freelancing Career, Discover the Ins and Outs of Freelancing and The Best Practices and Strategies to Have a Successful Freelancing Career - Freelance Work for Beginners: The Essential Guide on How to Start Your Freelancing Career, Discover the Ins and Outs on How to Have a Successful Career as a Freelancer Get your copy of Freelance Guide 2 in 1 Bundle today!

Jade Harlan, Jamison Terri (Author), Josiah Bildner, Marcus Mulenga (Narrator)

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Field Notebooks

Put scientists out in the field—where they observe and learn from their subjects—and exciting things happen. Join fourteen American scientists as they watch sleeping hippos, avoid cactus thorns, hide snakes under their skirts, make jokes, and draw elephants, termites, or squids. Drawing from the original field notebooks of scientists, kids will learn about descriptive, informative, humorous, and expository writing. Scientists use notebooks to summarize data, draw maps, or draw specimen. Represented are scientists studying birds, cactus, zoo keeping, human diseases, termites, mollusks, fish, grasses, Mayan ruins, Chinese plants and animals, taxidermy, and peanuts. Kids will be inspired to create their own field notebooks. The work is presented in a fun, browsable layout. Any time you want to pair observations with recording those observations, this is the right book.

Darcy Pattison (Author), Josiah Bildner (Narrator)

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A.I.

The stage was set for a showdown: Man v. Machine. On March 9, 2016, the AlphaGo artificial intelligence computer program played the board game, GO, against the world champion, Lee Sedol. The Game: Go is the oldest board game in the world. Games are perfect tests for A.I because they keep score. It‚Äôs easy to see when the A.I. is improving. The Man: Korean Lee Sedol was the world‚Äôs top Go player. He expected to win all five games of the match. Could the A.I. teach him anything? The Machine: Developed in 2014, AlphaGo was a computer artificial intelligence program designed to play Go by using deep learning to recognize patterns in the game. It had already beaten the European champion. Could it defeat Sedol? The exciting historic meeting of minds unfolded across five difficult games. This story introduces concepts of artificial intelligence and helps kids understand the challenges and the promise of working with A.I.

Darcy Pattison (Author), Josiah Bildner, Not Yet Available (Narrator)

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Kittywood

'...Pattison's characters delight...' Kirkus Review of Book 1 Angel Persian, a kitten born into a famous KittyTube family, faces her biggest acting challenge yet. The clock is ticking! By the month‚Äôs end, only ten kittens will be offered acting contracts. Stardom! Will she be chosen? Angel must visit the different kennels, work with each director, and rack up views on KittyTube. Will she find a kennel to call home? The five kennels are so different! Some aim for slow and steady growth, but some love fast and flashy. One kennel is known for its encouragement while another is competitive. Which would suit her better: a laid-back or a work-hard attitude? Angel‚Äôs decision now will affect the rest of her life. In this final chapter book of The KittyTubers trilogy, Angel Persian searches for a home where she can use her talents. Read this heartwarming story about Angel Persian‚Äôs search for her future.

Darcy Pattison (Author), Josiah Bildner (Narrator)

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The Kitten Stars

'...Pattison's characters delight...' Kirkus Review of Book 1 Kittywood is all abuzz trying to guess which of the 27 kittens will be cut. Angel and Jazz hope to make the final twenty, but to do that, they need views. That means, more pressure on every video. They need stronger ideas and better acting. To make it even harder, Director Stanley gives them all a new challenge. Ex-Marine Captain Piper Crouch will teach the kittens acrobatics. Angel is shocked! From a height of ten feet, they expect her to do a double flip and land safely. Landing isn‚Äôt the problem for cats, of course. It‚Äôs the double-flip. It becomes Angel‚Äôs new passion. In this continuing chapter book series of The KittyTubers, the kittens grow and mature, developing their acting skills. Join the kittens as they work‚Äîand hope‚Äîfor stardom!

Darcy Pattison (Author), Josiah Bildner (Narrator)

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Freelance Bible: The Essential Guide on How To Start a Freelancing Career, Discover the Ins and Outs

Freelance Bible: The Essential Guide on How To Start a Freelancing Career, Discover the Ins and Outs of Freelancing and The Best Practices and Strategies to Have a Successful Freelancing Career Most people who think about starting a freelance career just do not know where to begin. Having a successful freelance career starts with evaluating your own skills and requirements in a job and then finding the right match. Many freelances establish their businesses online by using one of the popular auction sites, like eBay. Still, others find a home in internet marketing, by directing web traffic to a website and then recommending certain products and services. On the Internet, you’ll use a website to advertise yourself as a virtual assistant. Having a website is essential to establishing your presence. If web design is not in your skillset, find someone who can make a website for you. Try to contact other virtual assistants and see if you can barter for the design if it’s something that you cannot afford to begin with. You are going to learn how you can start using your skills to create financial security through freelancing in this audiobook. Here are some of the topics you will learn in this audiobook: - Freelancing - 21st Century Way of Making a Living - Cool Benefits & Drawbacks - How to Get Into The Freelancing Business - Where To Look For Customers In-Masses - Is Freelancing Really The Way To Go? There are many other ways to make money as a freelancer than just with traditional marketplaces and securing projects through forums and communities. If you want to learn more, download Freelance Bible Today!

Jamison Terri (Author), Josiah Bildner, Marcus Mulenga (Narrator)

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A Little Bit of Dinosaur

Did you know that you have a little bit of dinosaur in you? And it‚Äôs your mother‚Äôs fault. She fed you that cheese sandwich, which had a calcium atom that used to be in the bones of a T-rex. This humorous story follows a calcium atom as it journeys from dry bones to your jawbone! Inspired by U.S. environmentalist Aldo Leopoldo, this story follows a little bit of dinosaur‚Äîa calcium atom‚Äîas it travels over time from a dinosaur to a child. In his 1949 classic, A Sand County Almanac, Leopoldo beautifully discussed how man and nature are interconnected. This amazing circle of life is illustrated with humor and a touch of empathy. Sisters Elleen Hutcheson and Darcy Pattison team up to bring Leopoldo's circle of life to kids. Hutcheson is a high school biology teacher; five of Pattison‚Äôs picture books have been named NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books. Each is shaking her finger at their mother wondering why she fed them that cheese sandwich.

Darcy Pattison, Elleen Hutcheson (Author), Josiah Bildner (Narrator)

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The Complete Aliens, Inc. Series

'Doing alien voices gives narrator Josiah John Bildner a fun challenge. . . This is a worthy addition to the alien genre for kids. Audiofile Magazine “amusing” and “engaging and accessible.” Publisher's Weekly “This fun chapter book series is out of this world.” School Library Journal KELL, THE ALIEN, Book 1, The Aliens, Inc. Series Shipwrecked on earth and desperate to make money, an alien family decides to make a living by opening Aliens, Inc., an intergalactic event-planning business master-minded by 9 year old alien boy, Kell Smith. Never mind that aliens from Bix don’t have birth days but hatching days. Never mind that aliens from Bix won’t cook with eggs, so birthday cakes are almost impossible to make. Kell discovers that his neighbor, Bree Hendricks, turns 9-years-old next month and she wants a party with an alien theme. That should be simple as flying from star to star. But things aren’t that easy: Earthling’s ideas about aliens are totally wrong. Even worse, Principal Lynx is a UFO-Chaser and suspects aliens around every corner. She’ll stop at nothing to catch the aliens and turn them over to the government. Will the Aliens totally blow the Aliens Party? Will Principal Lynx capture Kell and his family and them over to the government? Read and find out. KELL AND THE HORSE APPLE PARADE, Book 2, The Aliens, Inc. Series Fun and Humor: Super Heroes, Super Heroines, and a Parade! For Kell, the Friends of Police Parade is a big deal, his first Earthling parade. With Bree’s help, he must figure out how to deal with City Hall, figure out fund-raising and find super heroes and super heroines to march in the parade. To make things worse, Principal Lynx believes someone in third grade in an alien, and she has a new Alien Catcher App on her smart phone. Survival on planet Earth just got harder for the Smiths, those friendly aliens from Bix. Will the Society of Alien Chasers catch Kell and his family? Or will they outsmart Mrs. Lynx again. KELL AND THE GIANTS, Book 3, The Aliens, Inc. Series Fun and Humor: Giants Stop Through this Story! If you’re an alien on Earth, you have one giant secret to keep. After a while, even friends want to tell your secret. Kell and Bree plan a birthday party with giants—Big Foot, Cyclops, Goliath and the Jolly Green Giant—while they struggle with keeping their own giant secret. But they have an even bigger problem: Principal Lynx and the Society of Alien Chasers is back with a dog trained to sniff out an alien in a crowd. When Mom is stung by a bee, Kell must find a doctor who can keep a giant secret, too. Will Aliens, Inc. be able to pull off the Giant Party and keep everyone happy? Principal Lynx and the Society of Alien Chasers is back with a dog who can sniff and point out aliens. How can Kell, Bree and the gang avoid the dog and still pull off a GIANT birthday party? KELL AND THE DETECTIVES, Book 4, The Aliens, Inc. Series Kell will become a big brother in this exciting mystery! Kell makes a startling discovery: he has zigzag fingerprints. Worse, Mrs. Lynx and the Society of Alien Chasers know about the fingerprints, and they are on the hunt. But the stakes are higher than ever because Kell’s mom has just laid a beautiful green egg. With Mrs. Lynx on the prowl, can Kell and B

Darcy Pattison (Author), Josiah Bildner (Narrator)

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Goldilocks

'A funny, creative take on a well-known fairy tale.' Kirkus review Have you heard of Goldilocks? Of course, you have! She's the name-fame-dame. That long-strong, bold-gold hair has earned her an international reputation. And she knows it. Goldilocks thinks she can do anything she wants. Breaking and entering? No problem. Theft? No problem. Damaging property? No problem. Until the glitzy-see neighbors are tick-tock-talking. And they decide to take action. Will Goldilocks be able to use her fame-name to get out of trouble? Or will she wind up in folktale-jail? This fun spoof on Goldilocks is rollicking with word play: 'Papa Troll clomped-stomped. 'Someone ate my meal for real. It's all woebegone-gone.'' This retelling of the folk/fairy tale creates a children's picture book that is sure to become a read-aloud classic.

Darcy Pattison (Author), Josiah Bildner (Narrator)

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Freelance: The Ultimate Guide to Start Your Online Freelancing Business

Are you tired of working for others and want to become your own boss? Do you have a set of skills that could see you become a valued freelancer, able to command your own price? Do you have access to the internet and a will to succeed? As the world becomes a smaller place and the internet reaches into almost every home and business on the planet, so the way we work is changing too. Fast disappearing are the traditional 9-5 office jobs or factory shifts and in their place we see more and more freelancers taking on the bulk of the workload. The reasons are simple; it’s often cheapoer for the business and the flexibility is perfect for the freelancer. If you have considered becoming a freelancer then this audiobook, Freelance: The Ultimate Guide to Start Your Online Freelancing Business, is an essential read for you, covering things like: - Freelancing – 21st Century Way of Making a Living - Cool Benefits & Drawbacks - How to Get Into The Freelancing Business - Where To Look For Customers In Masses - Is Freelancing Really The Way To Go? While freelancing may sound like a great way to work and earn lots of cash, it also carries risks and drawbacks and this book will help you to spot them. Then, armed with all the information, you will be better placed to make an informed decision about your move into this lucrative business. Get a copy now and see if freelancing is for you!

Tabatha Raynaud (Author), Josiah Bildner (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Josiah Bildner