Children

Insect Stories

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Vernon Kellogg



These 13 essays explore the fascinating world of insects all around us. Vernon Kellogg, an eminent entomologist and natural story teller, an…

The Peterkin Papers (version 2)

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Lucretia P. Hale



The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work. The Peterkins are …

The Story of H.M.S. Pinafore

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W. S. Gilbert



H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbe…

Wopsy: The Adventures of a Guardian Angel

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Gerard F. Scriven



Wopsy is the story of a very young Guardian Angel, sent to watch over a pagan baby in Africa. Wopsy desperately wants his baby's soul to bec…

Grandma Janice's Poems and Stories

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Various



The poems and stories in this collection were selected with the reader’s grandchildren in mind. “The Raggedy Man” and “Little Orphant Annie,…

Gabriel and the Hour Book

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Evaleen Stein



Brother Stephen has the heart of an artist and wishes to leave the abbey to travel and see the world. However, King Louis has decreed that a…

The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Margaret Burnham



Teenagers Peggy Prescott and her brother Roy share a love of aviation that they inherited from their late father. Mr. Prescott had always dr…

Sunday Morning Storyland

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Rev. Wilfrid J. Diamond



A collection of short sermons for children written by a Catholic priest. Each with a story woven in teaches a moral or virtue for that week.…

Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

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Charlotte Mary Yonge



Travel with Little Lucy around the globe and learn a little geography and small bits about other cultures.(Summary by Laura Caldwell)

Summer Sun

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Robert Louis Stevenson



LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Summer Sun, by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the weekly poetry project for the w…

The Counterpane Fairy

Read by Lee Elliott


Katharine Pyle



A little boy, recuperating from a lengthy illness, is entertained by visits from the Counterpane Fairy, who treats him to stories associated…

The House that Jack Built

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Unknown



"The House that Jack Built" is a standard of juvenile literature that delights children and adults alike with the increasingly len…

Our Little Hindu Cousin

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Blanche Mcmanus



This book is one of a series that aims at describing other cultures to children in an entertaining way that honors the culture, educates the…

The Tale of Major Monkey

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)


Arthur Scott Bailey



Arthur Scott Bailey was the author of more than forty children's books.Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insect worl…

Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Daniel Defoe



Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers c…

Squinty the Comical Pig

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Richard Barnum



"This comical children's tale about the funny adventures of a funny pig written by an unknown author. The publisher has hired authors t…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 014

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Various



LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 014: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Camp-Fire Girls In The Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success Against Odds

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)


Stella M. Francis



The Camp Fire Girls books is a series of fiction novels written for children by various authors from 1912 into the 1930s. (Wikipedia)

Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School; or, Fast Friends in the Sororities

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Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase



The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around Ameri…

Denslow's Three Bears

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W. W. Denslow



This version of the classic tale of the three bears has a heroine named Golden Hair. The jolly bears, instead of chasing her away from their…

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