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Margaret Penrose - Dorothy Dale - A Girl of Today

Dorothy Dale is the daughter of an old Civil War veteran who is running a weekly newspaper in a small Eastern town. Her sunny disposition, her fun-loving ways and her trials and triumphs make clean, interesting and...

Lucy Burgoyne 5 hours 59 minutes Dorothy Dale Series

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573

Ethel C. Pedley - Dot and the Kangaroo

Dot and the Kangaroo, written in 1899, is a children's book by Ethel C. Pedley about a little girl named Dot who gets lost in the Australian outback and is eventually befriended by a kangaroo and several other...

Lucy Burgoyne and 9 more 3 hours 33 minutes

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J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan

Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fairy dust, and flight; mermaid lagoons, ticking crocodiles, and Princess...

Meredith Hughes and 15 more 5 hours 4 minutes

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J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan (version 2)

In both the play and the novel, Peter often visits the «real world» of London to listen in on bedtime stories told by Mary Darling to her children. One night, Peter is spotted, and while trying to escape, he loses...

Layna and 5 more 4 hours 50 minutes

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L. Frank Baum - Master Key

The Master Key was one of Baum's earliest full length fantasy books for children, published in 1901 just one year after The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The protagonist, Rob, while experimenting in his workshop,...

Judy Bieber 3 hours 40 minutes

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George MacDonald - At the Back of the North Wind

Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in the wall one night, Diamond is scolded by the beautiful Lady North Wind for...

Meredith Hughes and 16 more 8 hours 57 minutes

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Rudyard Kipling - Jungle Book

This classic children's book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, his capture by the...

Meredith Hughes 5 hours

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650

Hugh Lofting - Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later...

James Smith and 18 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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E. Nesbit - Railway Children

Edith Nesbit’s classic story, in which three children, pulled suddenly from their comfortable suburban life, move to the country with their mother, where they come to know and love the ways of the railways. (Summary...

Karen Savage 5 hours 1 minute

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E. Nesbit - Story of the Treasure Seekers

This is the story of the Bastable children and their attempts to help the family finances by searching for treasure. (Summary by Karen Savage)

Karen Savage 4 hours 9 minutes

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Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was written in 1872 and it finds Alice in a land when she walks through a mirror into the Looking-Glass House. The land is...

Brad Bush and 9 more 3 hours 19 minutes

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Hugh Lofting - Story of Doctor Dolittle

In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 12 more 3 hours 8 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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