Animals & Nature

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Thornton W. Burgess - Adventures of Buster Bear

The Adventures of Buster Bear is another set of children’s stories by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. Buster Bear has many adventures and misadventures as he meets the different characters in the Green...

John Lieder 1 hour 46 minutes

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Howard R. Garis - Sammie and Susie Littletail

Once upon a time there lived in a small house built underneath the ground two curious little folk, with their father, their mother, their uncle and Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy. Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy was the nurse, hired girl and...

Clarica 3 hours 6 minutes

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Children's Fiction

876

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - Peace On Earth, Good-Will to Dogs

If you don't like Christmas stories, don't read this one! And if you don't like dogs I don't know just what to advise you to do! For I warn you perfectly frankly that I am distinctly pro-dog and distinctly...

Allyson Hester 1 hour 53 minutes

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Peter Mink

Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was 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 1 hour 53 minutes

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Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories (version 2)

The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So Stories were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself. Read along online...

Kara Shallenberg 3 hours 12 minutes

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Timothy Turtle

One of Bailey's «Sleepy-Time Tales,» this is the story of Timothy Turtle, a grumpy old turtle trying to live his life alongside Black Creek. Timothy's adventures lead him to encounters with other Black Creek...

Robin Cotter 1 hour 27 minutes

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Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories (version 3)

These whimsical short stories offer fanciful answers to a dozen of childhood's favorite «why» and «how» questions. With their generous sprinkling of nonsense words as well as a delightfully rhythmic storytelling...

rachelellen and 4 more 3 hours 14 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows (version 3)

The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, destruction of private property (plenty of that), paganism, and a happy...

Adrian Praetzellis 6 hours 55 minutes

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Andrew Lang - Blue Fairy Book

Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as...

Maria Falin and 18 more 14 hours 7 minutes

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L. Leslie Brooke - Johnny Crow’s Party

A beautifully illustrated children’s picture book. Listen to the narration while you view (on gutenberg.org) a variety of delightful animals doing strange things such as the kangaroo who tried to paint the roses...

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Carl Sandburg - Rootabaga Stories

Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories he originally created...

Betsie Bush 3 hours 13 minutes

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Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows (version 2)

This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure… and as adventure pursues them! The chief characters — Mole, Rat, and Toad — generally lead upbeat and happy...

Mark F. Smith 6 hours 47 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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