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Makers of Many Things

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Eva March Tappan


How are friction matches made? How do rags and trees become paper? Who makes the dishes on our tables? Published in 1916, this children's bo…

The Railway Children (version 3)

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


E. Nesbit


When their father mysteriously goes away, three children and their story-writing mother leave their comfortable life in London and move to a…

A Day at the County Fair

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Alice Hale Burnett


Three little friends are taken to the County Fair in Uncle Billy's motorcar, but a slight delay occurs on the way. How they finally arrived …

Johnny Crow's Garden

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


L. Leslie Brooke


A beautifully illustrated children's picture book featuring Johnny Crow who made a garden in which a variety of animals do bizarre things in…

Johnny Crow’s Party

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


L. Leslie Brooke


A beautifully illustrated children’s picture book. Listen to the narration while you view (on gutenberg.org) a variety of delightful animals…

The Dynamite Worker Pt 1 The Story of Some Millionaire Heroes and the World's G…

In Careers of Danger and Daring

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Cleveland Moffett


In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed…

Punctuation

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Joseph Devlin


This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

The Emperor's New Clothes

In Andersen's Fairy Tales

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Hans Christian Andersen


A collection of eighteen fairy tales - some popular, some lesser known - by famous Danish author H.C. Andersen.(Summary by Gesine)

The Female Philosopher and The First Act of a Comedy

In Jane Austen's Juvenilia

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Jane Austen


Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various w…

The Story of Alfred, the Saxon

In From the Tower Window of My Bookhouse

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Olive Beaupre Miller and Variousandolive Beaupre Miller


Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fifth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for lit…

Preface and Introduction

In Grammar-Land

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


M.L. Nesbitt and M. L. Nesbitt


In this charming 1877 book of grammar instruction for children, we are introduced to the nine parts of speech and learn about the rules that…

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