Animals & Nature

The Tale of Benny Badger

by Arthur Scott Bailey Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014) 3.9
"Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insect worlds, weaving natural history into the stories in a way that won ed…

Flower Stories

by Lenore Elizabeth Mulets Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This volume contains stories, poems, and facts about lots of different flowers, intended for teaching children. It is divided into thirteen …

The Boys' and Girls' Pliny

by Pliny the Elder Read by Foon 4.6
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …

The Dogs Of Boytown

by Walter Alden Dyer Read by David Wales 4.6
This collection of stories about dogs and the people they own was published in 1918. The story proceeds leisurely with much information abou…

Wild Animals At Home

by Ernest Thompson Seton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Wildlife artist Ernest Thompson Seton shares anecdotes of wild animals that he encountered in Yellowstone Park. "I have aimed to show s…

The Great Small Cat and Others

by May E. Southworth Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Great Small Cat and Others is a captivating collection of seven short stories that delve into the lives and adventures of our feline com…

My Doggie and I

by R. M. Ballantyne Read by Allyson Hester 4.1
This story surrounds a child waif, a young woman, a young gentleman doctor, and an elderly lady. This tale unfolds the story of a bond that …

Wilderness Ways

by William J. Long Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Late nineteenth-century naturalist William J. Long invites us into the secret worlds of woodland animals in this, his second, fascinating bo…

The Memoirs of a White Elephant

by Judith Gautier Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
"We are told by writers of antiquity that elephants have written sentences in Greek, and that one of them was even known to speak. Ther…

Barks and Purrs

by Colette Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Barks and Purrs is a collection of seven episodes in the lives of Toby-Dog, a French Bulldog, and Kiki-the-Demure, a Maltese cat, living in …

MONARCH

by Ernest Thompson Seton Read by Ernest Thompson Seton 4.8
Ernest Thompson Seton's book, "Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac." Published in 1919, it tells the story of a tiny Grizzly cub who g…

The Farmer's Boy

by Clifton Johnson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Farmer's Boy invites listeners into the pastoral world of a New England farm at the close of the 19th century. Through the eyes of a you…

Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest

by Edward Tyson Allen Read by KHand 4
Written by a forester, this book aims to educate people on the importance of maintaining forests and those events which pose a danger to for…

Anecdotes of Dogs

by Edward Jesse Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." The character, sensibilities, and intellectual facu…

Kittens and Cats

by Eulalie Osgood Grover Read by Rosslyn Carlyle 4.1
This book consists of fifty-two very short fictitious stories about cats and kittens, which have been written for children. Many of the stor…

The Elements of Ornithology

by William Ruschenberger Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Elements of Ornithology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This…

The Life of the Fly

by Jean-Henri Fabre Read by Bellona Times
The Life of the Fly offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of insects through the keen observations of Jean-Henri Fabre, a pioneering e…

Mushrooms and Toadstools

by Worthington George Smith Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
This is a useful, but not comprehensive description of both edible and poisonous fungi found in Great Britain. Although the book is well ill…

White Tail the Deer's Adventures

by George Ethelbert Walsh Read by Foon 4.3
White Tail is the son of Father Buck, who is the leader of the herd. He and his rival Young Black Buck get into all kinds of adventures, but…

The Kitten's Garden of Verses

by Oliver Herford Read by Rachel 4.6
The Kitten's Garden of Verses is a book of short poetry, modeled after Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. Of course, the p…

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