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Booth Tarkington - Penrod

Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, and mostly the trouble he gets into. (Summary by Jonathan)

Jonathan Burchard 6 hours 3 minutes

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Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter (version 2)

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Beatrix Potter - Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter (version 2)

The Treasury contains nineteen stories written by Beatrix Potter. The most famous story is Peter Rabbit, which features a naughty young rabbit who learns the value of listening to his mother. (Summary by Jenny Lundak)

Jenny Lundak 3 hours 57 minutes

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Major Monkey

Arthur Scott Bailey was the author of more than forty children's books. Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insect worlds, weaving natural history into the stories in a way that won educator's...

Lucy Burgoyne 1 hour 57 minutes

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Ernest Thompson Seton - Biography of a Grizzly

I first read this little book when I was in the fifth grade, and now more than fifty years later, I still find it fascinating. Ernest Thompson Seton was a man with a concern for nature her creatures and an excellent...

John W. Michaels 1 hour 31 minutes

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Grandfather Mole

Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was the author of more than forty children's books. Bailey's writing has been described thusly by the Newark Evening News: «Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and...

Lucy Burgoyne 2 hours 2 minutes

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale Of Tommy Fox

Bailey's writing has been described thusly by the Newark Evening News: «Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insect worlds, weaving natural history into the stories in a way that won educator's...

Lucy Burgoyne 1 hour 54 minutes

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Master Meadow Mouse

This volume in the series, Sleepy-Time Tales, follows the adventures of Master Meadow Mouse as he moves his home to various (safer) places, and tells how he cleverly avoids creatures such as Fatty Coon, Mr. Crow, and...

Laura Caldwell 1 hour 26 minutes

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Thornton W. Burgess - Old Mother West Wind

Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. He loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years....

Laurie Anne Walden 1 hour 39 minutes

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Laura Rountree Smith - Little Bear

A story for children about a little bear with no name, “there were not enough names to go round,” and his adventures in finding one. (Summary by Carolyn Frances)

Carolyn Frances 1 hour 28 minutes

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Daddy Long Legs

Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was author of more than forty children's books. He was born on November 15, 1877, in St. Albans, Vermont, United States, the second child of Winfield Scott Bailey and Harriet Sarah...

Lucy Burgoyne 2 hours

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Thornton W. Burgess - Adventures of Jimmy Skunk

The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk is another in the long list children's books by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, Jimmy Skunk has encounters with Reddy Fox, Peter Rabbit, Unc’ Billy Possum and...

John Lieder 1 hour 41 minutes

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Jean de La Fontaine - Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks

Several of La Fontaine's fables, translated into English by W. T. Larned. (Summary by bge1234)

Karen Savage and 8 more 32 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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