When They Were Children: Stories of the Childhood of Famous Men and Women
Amy Steedman
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Sketches about the childhood of many famous men and women, written just for children! (11 hr 21 min)
Chapters
| About This Book | 2:48 | Read by Keren Smithies |
| Saint Augustine | 7:19 | Read by Keren Smithies |
| S. Louis of France | 11:37 | Read by Anita Hibbard |
| Giotto | 9:08 | Read by Emily Maynard |
| S. Catherine of Siena | 12:38 | Read by De Anna Lee |
| Jeanne D'Arc | 13:00 | Read by Emily Maynard |
| Michael Angelo | 10:35 | Read by Emily Maynard |
| Queen Elizabeth | 15:51 | Read by Seraphina |
| Mary Queen of Scots | 14:24 | Read by Stacey Malcolm |
| Louis XIII | 21:49 | Read by Rita Boutros |
| Sir Isaac Newton | 10:31 | Read by prajak |
| Samuel Johnson | 10:36 | Read by De Anna Lee |
| Frederick the Great | 18:28 | Read by Wayne Cooke |
| Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh | 23:27 | Read by Keren Smithies |
| George Washington | 11:23 | Read by Rita Boutros |
| Goethe | 26:08 | Read by Rita Boutros |
| Mozart | 14:43 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| Horatio Nelson | 15:14 | Read by Rita Boutros |
| Arthur, Duke of Wellington | 7:16 | Read by Weretortoise |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | 14:56 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| Sir Walter Scott | 17:47 | Read by Kazaxat |
| Elizabeth Fry | 10:00 | Read by BookBard |
| George Stephenson | 13:28 | Read by Marie Christian |
| Sir John Franklin | 25:39 | Read by Beau Wood |
| Hans Andersen | 15:48 | Read by Weretortoise |
| Abraham Lincoln | 25:11 | Read by prajak |
| Alfred Tennyson | 9:52 | Read by De Anna Lee |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | 19:38 | Read by Keren Smithies |
| Charles Dickens | 22:37 | Read by Jonathan Jones |
| Robert Browning | 9:07 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| David Livingstone | 17:09 | Read by Ruth P. |
| Richard Wagner | 16:40 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| Jean-Francois Millet | 10:50 | Read by De Anna Lee |
| Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters | 17:28 | Read by Keren Smithies |
| John Ruskin | 13:10 | Read by jenno |
| Queen Victoria | 14:27 | Read by Ruth P. |
| George Eliot | 11:53 | Read by Rita Boutros |
| Florence Nightingale | 10:22 | Read by Keren Smithies |
| Jenny Lind | 15:02 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| Rosa Bonheur | 18:31 | Read by BettyB |
| John Coleridge Patteson | 22:13 | Read by Stephanie Gish |
| Sir John Everett Millais | 14:56 | Read by jenno |
| Louisa Alcott | 17:09 | Read by BettyB |
| Charles George Gordon | 11:53 | Read by Jonathan Jones |
| Thomas Alva Edison | 8:14 | Read by prajak |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 20:58 | Read by Rita Boutros |