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William Cullen Bryant - Midsummer

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Midsummer by William Cullen Bryant. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 23, 2013. This poem taken from the Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant, Household...

Dean McCollaum and 14 more 18 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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Action & Adventure

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Ellen C. Babbitt - More Jataka Tales

The continued success of the «Jataka Tales,» as retold and published ten years ago, has led to this second and companion volume. Who that has read or told stories to children has not been lured on by the subtle...

Kimberly Krause and 7 more 1 hour 28 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 121

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2013.

Winston Tharp and 11 more 1 hour 52 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 019

Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 019: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Algy Pug and 8 more 2 hours 24 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Samuel Rogers - To the Gnat

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of To The Gnat by Samuel Rogers. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 19, 2013. Some comments from our readers… «It might seem a tad mellow dramatic, but if you...

Anita Slusser and 14 more 20 minutes

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Not Yet my Soul

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Not Yet my Soul by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 19, 2013. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December...

Dean McCollaum and 12 more 41 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, literature, nature, and religion. (summary by Sue Anderson)

Rachel Gatwood and 13 more 5 hours 41 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Poetry

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Robert Frost - Hillside Thaw

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Hillside Thaw by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 5th, 2013.

Dean McCollaum and 9 more 23 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Thornton W. Burgess - Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer

The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer is another set of children’s stories by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. More serious than some of Burgess' other children's books, much of this book chronicles the tense...

Jill Engle and 11 more 2 hours 38 minutes

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Poetry

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Sara Teasdale - Mastery

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Mastery by Sara Teasdale. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 28th, 2013.

Algy Pug and 20 more 20 minutes

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General

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Mary F. Nixon-Roulet - Our Little Australian Cousin

Another delightful look back at how people and children lived in the late 1800s in this part of the British Empire. This book introduces us to Fergus and Jean Hume and their family who are sailing to Australia from...

Kathrine Engan and 4 more 2 hours Our Little Cousin Series

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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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