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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Mermaid's Message and Other Stories

This is a collection of fairy tales and fables compiled in 1919. The stories contain original but old-fashioned tales which modern children and grown-ups will enjoy. Summary by Carolin

BettyB and 16 more 3 hours 11 minutes

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Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children

General

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Flora J. Cooke - Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children

Written for first through third graders, this book aims to expand not only the imagination but the vocabulary. For listeners following along with the text, please note the stories are read in order of the categories...

Linette 1 hour 59 minutes

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Family

488

Helen Hill - Charlie and His Kitten Topsy

A darling story of little Charlie and his adventures with cats and kittens and how he became many things. Also how the kitten Topsy, unhappy with being a kitten and having his face washed, tries different life styles...

Linette 1 hour 30 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Catherine Sinclair - Holiday House

Linette and 6 more 8 hours 23 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Annie Fellows Johnston - Miss Santa Claus of the Pullman

We all know that Santa Claus has a large family in which to help him in the delivery of presents, peace, and good cheer. So what would you do if you were Miss Santa Claus and met two children on Christmas Eve...

Linette 3 hours

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Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, and Others

Science

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Jeannette Augustus Marks - Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, and Others

These short stories about crickets, ants, bees, beetles and other little busybodies are intended by the two authors to show their children the wonderland of insectcs if we just take the time to look closely. «We hope...

Linette and 7 more 3 hours 28 minutes

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Poetry

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Budget of Christmas Tales

This is a 1895 collection of christmas-themed short stories and poems by various authors, Charles Dickens himself being the most prominent feature. — Summary by Carolin

Larry Wilson and 13 more 10 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Ian Bernard Stoughton Holborn - Child of the Moat

Ian Holborn (professor of archaeology and a writer) was on board the RMS Lusitania when it was torpedoed, and as it sank he rescued a 12 year old girl named Avis Dolphin. She later complained that books for girls...

Beth Thomas and 11 more 12 hours 10 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 1, January 1900

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, stories and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 2 hours 28 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Poetry

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Cale Young Rice - Many Gods

This is a volume of poetry by Cale Young Rice. The poems in this volume reflect Rice's experiences while travelling across Asia, and many of them have, as their theme, a person or incident set in that area or culture....

Larry Wilson and 11 more 1 hour 25 minutes

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State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1817 - 1828)

Literary Collections

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John Quincy Adams - State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1817 - 1828)

The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition...

Linette and 5 more 8 hours 48 minutes State of the Union Addresses

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Published 1900 onward

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Anonymous - Nell and Her Grandfather

If you have heard of the Dickens novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, and remember Nell Trent, the beautiful and virtuous young girl of «not quite fourteen», an orphan, who lived with her maternal grandfather in his shop of...

Phil Chenevert and 6 more 2 hours 11 minutes

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New

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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