Nature & Animal Fiction

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Jim Kjelgaard - Trading Jeff and His Dog

A fight in the Midwest leaves the dog's owner dead. He searches for a new friend and encounters Trading Jeff. Jeff is a traveling peddler. Beware, though, because life as a peddler isn't easy (and it's definitely not...

Kristin Lewis and 1 more 5 hours 13 minutes

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Ernest Thompson Seton - Animal Heroes

A hero is an individual of unusual gifts and achievements. Whether it be man or animal, this definition applies; and it is the histories of such that appeal to the imagination and to the hearts of those who hear them....

Ginny Blankenship and 7 more 6 hours 16 minutes

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Buster Bumblebee (version 2)

This charming collection of short stories features a bumblebee called Buster, his (extensive) family, and a great number of other animals who he meets after they move home to a new meadow. — Summary by Rosslyn Carlyle

Rosslyn Carlyle 1 hour 45 minutes

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Clara Doty Bates - On The Tree Top

A collection of Nursery Rhymes retold by the author and others. — Summary by David Lawrence *Additional Proof-listening by Christine Lehman.

BettyB and 6 more 2 hours 19 minutes

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Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)

Here, amidst the vast sweep of the plains which stretch away to the horizon on every side, boundless, limitless, endless, lived the plains Indians. Standing in the midst of this vast green plain on a soft May morning,...

David Wales 3 hours 20 minutes

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Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Thornton W. Burgess - Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Author and editor of numerous children's books, Thornton W. Burgess was also a noted conservationist. In writing for youngsters he combined a gift for storytelling with his love of the outdoors, creating an...

Hannah M. 1 hour 32 minutes

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths and Legends of Alaska (version 2)

The myths in this 1911 volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists. Only the quaintest and purest of the myths have been selected. The leading myth of the North the Raven Myth,...

David Wales 2 hours 24 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Sōseki Natsume - I Am A Cat (excerpt)

These are the first two chapters of Natsume Sōseki's masterpiece, «I Am A Cat» (Wagahai wa Neko de Aru). It is recognized as a landmark of modern Japanese literature, with its humorous but insightful depiction of...

Peter Eastman 3 hours 20 minutes

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Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes

It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisite in color, poetical in feeling, these legends of sun, moon, and stars, of...

David Wales 3 hours 35 minutes

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths and Legends of the Great Plains

Myths and Legends of the Great Plains is a compendium of myths and legends from the Great Plains region of the US. It includes many short stories, and also quite a few songs and poems. Each tale is tagged with what...

Kyle Van DeGlast 3 hours 9 minutes

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Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon

The basis on which these myths were selected necessarily excluded those which showed traces of the white man's religion or of the red man's coarseness. Relatively speaking, only a few myths could be selected. These...

David Wales 2 hours 24 minutes

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Horacio Quiroga - South American Jungle Tales

The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact with on his farm in Misiones, a region of jungle in Uruguay along the banks...

James K. White 2 hours 26 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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