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Barberry Bush and Eight Other Stories for Girls

General

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Susan Coolidge - Barberry Bush and Eight Other Stories for Girls

Eight heartwarming stories. Most of the stories are about girls, and their adventures. Susan Coolidge is also author of «What Katy Did.» The Barberry Bush is about a girl named «Barbara Allen called...

MaryAnn and 4 more 6 hours 13 minutes

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Maria Edgeworth - Blue Jar Story Book

This is a collection of 6 delightful stories about children by some of the best authors of the period: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Maria Edgeworth and Alicia Catherine Mant. These stories are well written and although...

Kyle Stadelhofer and 3 more 2 hours 22 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Clara Dillingham Pierson - Among the Pond People

Lovely book for children written by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the «Among the People» series explores the animal inhabitants of a pond. The beautiful writing brings the pond...

Jill Engle and 8 more 3 hours 20 minutes Among the People Series

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Animals & Nature

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Aesop - Aesop for Children

A collection of Aesop's fables for children from the classic American book illustrated by Milo Winter. Read along and see the illustrations at: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19994. (Summary by Jill Engle)

Bob Neufeld and 18 more 3 hours 11 minutes

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Short works

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Maud Lindsay - Mother Stories

«I have endeavored to write, for mothers and dear little children, a few simple stories, embodying some of the truths of Froebel's Mother Play...Most of these stories have been told and retold to little children, and...

Greg Giordano 2 hours 21 minutes

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Maud Lindsay - Story-teller

Are you a story teller? Almost all of us are, you know. Well, these 12 stories were written by Maud Lindsay to be told by someone who can weave the magic thread of speech into a performance that will hold the children...

Loveday and 7 more 1 hour 42 minutes

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Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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William Dean Howells - Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children

Five short delightful stories for children, told in the voice of «the papa» to «the girl» and «the boy» William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. Nicknamed...

David Wales 2 hours 5 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Olive Beaupre Miller - Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited...

Emily Jones and 28 more 9 hours 45 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 3, 1848 to 1853

Children's Fiction

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Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 3, 1848 to 1853

A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristingj)

Alex Lau and 13 more 4 hours 24 minutes

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Abbie Phillips Walker - Sandman's Hour

Reading bedtime stories to children can be a wonderful way to relax and at the same time act out the exciting things happening in the story for them. If you've done it, you know the feeling and if you haven't I can...

anolen and 10 more 2 hours 50 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Richard Harding Davis - Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote of which a boy would not some day come to feel the appeal. But there are...

David Wales 4 hours 57 minutes

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Racketty-Packetty House and other stories

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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Racketty-Packetty House and other stories

This is a collection of short stories and fairy tales by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author of The Secret Garden and A little Princess. (Summary by Elli)

Eden Rea-Hedrick and 4 more 5 hours 6 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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