Animals & Nature
Indian Why Stories: Sparks From War Eagle's Lodge-Fire
Read by Sacha Chander
Frank Bird Linderman
Delightful fables, collected by a devotee of Indian lore, recounts many of the legends told to him by tribal members, among them intriguing …
The Aesop for Children
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Aesop
A collection of Aesop's fables for children from the classic American book illustrated by Milo Winter. Read along and see the illustrations …
The Call of the Wild (Version 2)
Read by Tom Crawford
Jack London
This is the story of Buck, dog napped from sunny California to snowy Arctic during the Alaska gold rush. This deservedly famous book has bee…
Among the Meadow People
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Clara Dillingham Pierson
Lovely book of nature written for children by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People"…
West African Folk Tales
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William H. Barker
A collection of folk tales mostly centered around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as …
By Pond and River
Read by Laura Caldwell
Arabella B. Buckley
In By Pond and River, another of Arabella Buckley's wonderful science books for children, she explains the habitats of ponds and rivers, exp…
The Black Fawn
Read by Roger Melin
Jim Kjelgaard
Bud Sloan was an orphan who had been 'sold out' of the orphanage to work on a farm once he'd been old enough to labor. The farm where he was…
Uncle Remus & Friends
Read by Phil Chenevert
Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus, that genial old storyteller, knows how to spin these wonderful tales about the 'criteers' that the little 6 year old boy (and m…
The Story of the Three Little Pigs
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
L. Leslie Brooke
This version of the classic tale of the three pigs, their houses and a wolf, published in 1904, has a new twist in its second half. This rec…
Among the Farmyard People
Read by Claire Schreuder
Clara Dillingham Pierson
A wonderful children's book filled with engaging stories about various farmyard animals. Each book ending with a moral which gently encourag…
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 4 Dramatic Reading)
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Hugh Lofting
John Dolittle, M. D., was once a famous doctor. But then he learned to talk Animal-Language, picked up several interesting pets, and gradual…
The Wind in the Willows (version 5)
Read by Cori Samuel
Kenneth Grahame
A children's classic, this is the story of Rat and Mole, who have many adventures both on and off their beloved river, with their friends To…
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
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John Henry Patterson
In 1898, during the construction of river-crossing bridge for the Uganda Railway at the Tsavo River, as many as 135 railway workers were att…
Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard
Read by Mark F. Smith
Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wiggily Longears, an old bunny gentleman now stricken with rheumatism and getting around with a cane, still is quite active. In these …
The Song of the Cardinal
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Gene Stratton-Porter
The Song of the Cardinal is about a big male Cardinal who lives in a tree near a farmer and his wife. The Cardinal immediately starts to sin…
Mother West Wind 'Where' Stories
Read by Jude Somers
Thornton W. Burgess
The continuing adventures of Peter Cottontail and his friends. - Summary by Jude Somers
The Covered Wagon
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Emerson Hough
"Look at 'em come, Jesse! More and more! Must be forty or fifty families." This is an old-fashioned adventure tale set on the Oreg…
Penrod and Sam
Read by Jonathan Burchard
Booth Tarkington
Follow more of the hilarious life of the boy Penrod Schofield, his friends Sam Williams, Herman, Verman, Georgie, Maurice, and the love of h…
The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel (version 3)
Read by Jude Somers
Thornton W. Burgess
Chatterer the Red Squirrel finds himself in trouble again and is forced to abandon his old home. As the search for a new home begins, Chatte…
Kari the Elephant
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
The adventures of an Indian boy and his beloved elephant. Born near Calcutta, Mukerji won the Newbury Medal for children's fiction. (Summary…