Jim Weiss

Jim Weiss (born November 24, 1948, in Highland Park, Illinois) is an American children's audio storyteller, book narrator and author.

Since 1989 Weiss has released over seventy audio recordings, for preschool through college, of classic and/or historical books with an emphasis on character building. He is a Storytelling World Award winner and his work has been recognized by the Film Advisory Board, American Library Association, and Parents' Guide to Children's Media for his contribution to storytelling and audio entertainment.

Examples of his expressive retellings include various works of Shakespeare, The Three Musketeers, American Tall Tales, Sherlock Holmes and Aesop's fables. The book selections are supportive of educators within the classical education movement in addition to having a following within homeschool circles and Christian families.

His work was originally released by Great Hall Productions founded by Weiss and his wife Randy with the maxim "Intelligent Entertainment for the Thinking Family." Today his body of work is published by Well-Trained Mind Press, available on CDs and streaming with audiobook services and apps. As of 2022 he was producing two recordings a year. The Weiss' have one daughter along with her family, and live in Tucson, Arizona.

Book Recordings - partial listing

G.A. Henty

Henty Short Stories (Volume I) | 1800s, frontier Ohio & England The Cat of Bubastes | 1250 BC Egypt The Young Carthaginian | 220 BC Rome & Carthage Beric the Briton. | 62 AD Ancient Britain & Rome For the Temple | 70 AD Jerusalem Wulf the Saxon | 1066, England In Freedom’s Cause | 1296-1314, Scotland & England The Lion of St Mark | 1300s, Venice, Italy

The Lion of the North | 1618-1648, Thirty Years War, Europe In the Reign of Terror | 1793, French Revolution

The nine Henty novels are “thoughtfully abridged” which is described as minor edits removing vast amounts of repetition.

World history and stories

The Ancient World to 70 AD

Story of the World, Vol. I: The Ancients | 5000 BC – 400 AD Bible Stories: Great Men and Women From Noah through Solomon | 2000s BC - 900s BC Middle East Tales from the Old Testament | 6000 BC - 400 BC Middle East Egyptian Treasures: Mummies & Myths | 3000 BC Tales from Cultures Far & Near | 3000 BC, China The Dragon Diaries: Dragon Stories From Around the World | 3000 BC Jewish Holiday Stories | 2000 BC - 300 BC, Middle East Pharaohs and Queens of Ancient Egypt | 1500 BC - 1200 BC The Cat of Bubastes by G. A. Henty | 1250 BC, Egypt Greek Myths | 1000 BC She & He: Adventures in Mythology | 1000 BC, Greece Courage and a Clear Mind: True Adventures of Ancient Greeks | 1000 BC Shakespeare for Children, A Midsummer’s Night Dream | 1000 BC, Greece Heroes in Mythology | 1000 BC, Greece A Treasury of Wisdom (Solomon) | 1000 BC, Israel Animal Tales (Aesop) | 600 BC Galileo & the Stargazers (Archimedes) | 400 BC, Sicily A Treasury of Wisdom (Diogenes) | 400 BC, Greece A Treasury of Wisdom (Alexander the Great) | 300 BC, Greece The Young Carthaginian by G. A. Henty | 220 BC, Rome/Carthage Julius Caesar and the Story of Rome | 44 BC A Treasury of Wisdom (The Good Samaritan) | 1st Century AD Beric the Briton | 62 AD, Ancient Britain, Rome For The Temple by G. A. Henty | 70 AD. Jerusalem