Sophie Aldred

Join our intrepid adventurers Otto and Cassandra (and Missy, the smartest bird in the universe) as they embark on a brand new Ladybird Audio Adventure! This time we're travelling back to Ancient Egypt!

When Flavia de Luce is banished to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada she’s soon on familiar ground, when, on her first night, a mummified body is dislodged from a chimney, and she is presented with a gruesome puzzle to solve.

Floss's parents are divorced, and they've got a simple routine - Floss spends five days a week with her mum, her new stepdad and her baby half-brother. The other two days Floss spends with her dad, helping him to run his greasy spoon cafe.

But this arrangement is thrown into disarray when Floss's mum decides to move to Australia.

Floss makes the difficult decision to stay at home, moving in permanently with her dad. They muddle along happily together, surviving on chip butties and enjoying visits to the local funfair.

Then disaster strikes - Dad's money troubles catch up with him and they have to move out of the cafe. They're homeless - but can their new fairground friends help out?

Meet our fearless adventurers Cassandra, Otto and Missy AKA the smartest raven in the universe as they set out on their next action-packed Ladybird Audio Adventure! On this adventure, we're discovering the world of creepy crawlies where we'll learn about some of the world's smallest animals. Cassandra is going to need to fire up her Shrink-O-Meter to discover these fascinating insects and learn about their busy lives!

Flavia's mother, Harriet, has always been presumed dead, killed in a mountaineering accident in Tibet. Now, astonishingly, she returns to Buckshaw, and series of bizarre and deadly events occur, as a most curious group of individuals converge to pay their respects…

Once, a girl called Ace travelled the universe with the Doctor - until, in the wake of a terrible tragedy they parted company. Now, decades on, she is known as Dorothy McShane, the reclusive millionaire philanthropist who heads the global organisation A Charitable Earth. But Dorothy is being haunted by terrible nightmares in which she's abducted to an alien world. Nightmares that begin just as scores of young runaways are vanishing from the dark alleyways of London.

Could the disappearances be linked to sightings of sinister creatures - part man, part rat - lurking in the city shadows? Why has an alien satellite entered a secret orbit around the Moon? And how has Dorothy become a target for the victors in an interstellar war? Investigating the satellite with Ryan, Graham and Yaz, the Doctor is thrown together with Ace once more. Together they must unravel a malevolent plot that will cost of thousands of lives. But can the Doctor atone for her past incarnation's behaviour - and how much must Ace sacrifice to win victory not only for herself, but for the Earth?

An ancient artifact buried deep within the TARDIS leads the Doctor back to London, where a deadly predator prowls the tunnels beneath the city. As the Time Lord and her friends investigate, they uncover a mystery that will take them from a secret mountain base to the depths of the ocean - and if they cannot solve it, one of them will perish. In order to save her friend, the Doctor must solve the riddle of... the Maze of Doom!

'I am an expert on witchcraft, Doctor, but I wish to learn more. Before you die, I want answers.' The TARDIS lands in the Lancashire village of Bilehurst Cragg in the 17th Century, and the Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz soon become embroiled in a witch trial run by the local landowner. Fear stalks the land, and the arrival of King James I only serves to intensify the witch hunt. But the Doctor soon realises there is something more sinister than paranoia and superstition at work. Tendrils of living mud stir in the ground, and the dead lurch back to horrifying life as an evil alien presence begins to revive. The Doctor and her friends must save not only the people of Bilehurst Cragg from the wakening forces, but the entire world.

The TARDIS materialises on a research station, locked in a state of temporal displacement on the surface of Volkoff Epsilon.

The station's human crew are engaged in the study of a mysterious artefact they call 'the remnant'. Apparently a source of unlimited power, it could be the solution to Earth's energy problem.

Yet the station's time barrier has become disrupted, leaving the crew confined with no way out. The Doctor realises that both he and Ace - and the TARDIS - are now also trapped by the time displacement.

What is the secret of the tiny, spinning artefact? Why have half the base's personnel already disappeared? And what lurks in the shadows, threatening to overwhelm first Ace and then the whole of Earth?

Flavia is enjoying the summer, spending her days punting along the river with her reluctant family. Languishing in boredom, she drags a slack hand in the water, and catches her fingers in the open mouth of a drowned corpse. Flavia needs to put her super-sleuthing skills to the test to investigate the murder of three gossips in the local church, and to keep her sisters out of danger.

With the family finances in a state, Flavia's father has rented Buckshaw to a film company for a location shooting. When the actors are talked into staging a benefit performance, old jealousies surface, and the leading lady is murdered! As the list of suspects grows, Flavia investigates.

Meet our fearless adventurers Cassandra, Otto and Missy AKA the smartest raven in the universe as they set out on their next action-packed Ladybird Audio Adventure! On this adventure, we're learning about incredible inventors. We'll travel through time to see how humans first discovered fire-making, all the way through to the modern scientific research of today!

Follow our fearless adventurers Cassandra and Otto (and Missy, the smartest bird in the universe) as they set out on their next action-packed Ladybird Audio Adventure! On this adventure we're going to need to have our cameras ready, as we're off to explore some capital cities! We're off to visit some of the world's busiest capital cities and we're going to learn why they are so important, and what they mean to different countries. We're going to need to fire up the transporter because we're off to London, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo and Delhi!

Follow our fearless adventurers Cassandra and Otto (and Missy, the smartest bird in the universe) as they set out on their next action-packed Ladybird Audio Adventure! On this adventure we're going to need to turn the sound up as we're learning all about musical instruments! From the instruments you can make in your own house, to some of the most talented musicians around the world, we're going to have a musical blast and learn more about what music means in different cultures.

These audiobooks help children learn about their environment on a journey of discovery with narrators Ben Bailey Smith (a.k.a. Doc Brown, rapper, comedian and writer) and Sophie Aldred (best known for her role as Ace in Doctor Who). Ladybird Audio Adventures is an award-winning original series for three to seven year-olds; an entertaining and engaging way for children to learn about the world around them. These are special stories written exclusively for audio, so little ones can become their own adventurers with fun sound and musical effects that are perfect for listening at home, before bed and on long journeys.

Meet our fearless adventurers Cassandra, Otto and Missy AKA the smartest raven in the universe as they set out on their next action-packed Ladybird Audio Adventure! Grab your helmet because in this adventure, we're travelling back in time to the Viking Age, where we will learn about their lives and traditions, as well as their skilled boatmaking! These audiobooks help children learn about their environment on a journey of discovery with narrators, Sophie Aldred best known for her role as Ace in Doctor Who and Kristin Atherton as Missy.

Ladybird Audio Adventures is an award-winning original series for three to seven year-olds; an entertaining and engaging way for children to learn about the world around them. These are special stories written exclusively for audio, so little ones can become their own adventurers with fun sound and musical effects that are perfect for listening at home, before bed and on long journeys.

My mummy looks normal, like any other mummy . . . but she's not. Because she can turn into a fairy. All she has to do is stamp her feet three times, clap her hands, wiggle her bottom and say 'Marshmallow' . . . and POOF! She's Mummy Fairy. Ella's family has a BIG secret - her mummy is a fairy! But sometimes Mummy Fairy's magic goes wrong, and then it's up to Ella to help. In this fourth enchanting book, Mummy Fairy and Ella decorate the kitchen with magic colouring pencils, catch a robber on Ella's school trip - and swim with real mermaids!

Everyone still sees Rose Casson as a kid, but she is nearly nine! Life is as chaotic as ever in the Casson household, but why is Rose the only person to notice that Indigo's friend, Tom, has not been in touch lately?

Follow our fearless adventurers Cassandra (and Missy, the smartest bird in the universe) as they set out on their next action-packed Ladybird Audio Adventure! On this adventure, we're going to meet literary legends throughout history!

Meet our fearless adventurers Cassandra, Otto and Missy AKA the smartest raven in the universe as they set out on their next action-packed Ladybird Audio Adventure! On this adventure Cassandra and Missy are off to explore the biggest forest of them all - the Amazon rainforest. Setting course for South America they encounter some of the planet's most incredible wildlife and discover the reasons why the Amazon is one of the most important natural places in our world.

For Flavia de Luce, the words of an old gypsy open up old wounds. Is she a faker, or is there some truth to her powers? And when the village is rocked by another ghastly murder, how will a growing fascination with gypsy lore help Flavia to solve it?

Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another...

Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back... 

What secrets lie hidden in the darkness?

The villagers of Bishop’s Lacey are holding their breath as St Tancred’s tomb is about to be opened after 500 years. But the body is not that of a saint; it is Mr Collicutt, St Tancred's celebrated organist. Flavia soon finds herself investigating one of Bishop's Lacey's most peculiar families.

Follow our fearless adventurers Cassandra (and Missy, the smartest bird in the universe) as they set out on their next action-packed Ladybird Audio Adventure! Grab your trainers, because on this adventure, we're going to meet some of the world's most famous sporting heroes!

Flavia de Luce is back at Buckshaw when she makes a macabre discovery - the corpse of a reclusive woodcarver, in a house, empty except for a curiously uncurious cat. Curiosity may not kill this cat, however, what awaits Flavia will shake her to the core.

When the twins’ magical friends - the ice-cream van, Macaroni, and Gina the goat - disappear, they need the help of Pa Periwinkle to find them. Soon Pa’s magic Fizzbomb Sherbet is exploding into action.

A grisly murder during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in Bishop's Lacey village hall tests Flavia de Luce's powers of deduction to the limit - and provides a shocking insight into the darker corners of the adult world.

Twelve stunning Doctor Who stories for the long winter nights. Christmas can mean anything... For Missy, it's solving Murders in 1909. For a little girl in Dublin, it's Plasmavores knocking at the door. For Davros, it's a summons from the Doctor, who needs the mad inventor's help. The perfect collection for the bleakest - and sometimes brightest - time of the year, these are the tales for when you're halfway out of the dark...