Children's Fiction
The House with the Twisting Passage
Read by Caro Davy
Marion St. John Webb
When her parents go to India for two years, 9 year old Jenny is cared for by her aunts. Aunt Abby is caretaker in a large many-roomed house…
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)
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…
Uncle Wiggily's Automobile
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Howard R. Garis
The irrepressible Uncle Wiggily falls ill and Dr. Possum prescribes "an automobile drive before every meal". thus Uncle Wiggly bu…
Robinson Crusoe
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…
Kittens and Cats
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Eulalie Osgood Grover
This book consists of fifty-two very short fictitious stories about cats and kittens, which have been written for children. Many of the stor…
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…
Denslow's Three Bears
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
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…
The House with the Twisting Passage
Read by Xenutia
Marion St. John Webb
When Jenny goes to stay with her Aunt Abby, a caretaker in a grand old manor-house, she discovers a wonderful twisting passage on the second…
Merry Clappum Junction
Read by Ruth Golding
Arnold Kennedy
This is a jolly little book about a little boy, a dog, a train and a house. But not an ordinary train, oh no, and not an ordinary house eith…
The Gate of the Giant Scissors
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Annie Fellows Johnston
This is the story of Joyce, an American girl who has been sent abroad to France to study, and of her adventures in France, - the wonderful h…
Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation
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William James McGlothlin
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of A Selection from Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by Anon…
The Little Colonel at Boarding-School
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Annie Fellows Johnston
Because of the illness of her grandfather, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, finds herself being sent off to boarding school from her home …
The Story Girl
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Carlisle on St. Edwards Island may appear to the outside world to be a quiet, rural farming town, but to a group of 8 teens and tweens, its …
Alice Pleasance Liddell
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Lewis Carroll
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 different recordings of Alice Pleasance Liddell by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for th…
Selected Lullabies of Eugene Field
Read by Becky Miller
Eugene Field
The sweetest songs the world has ever heard are the lullabies that have been crooned above its cradles. The music of Beethoven and Mozart, o…
His First and Last Appearance
Read by Maria Therese
Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.
The scene of the story is laid partly in Milwaukee, partly in New York. It describes the trials of the orphaned Lachance children. The boy h…
The Tale of Grumpy Weasel
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Arthur Scott Bailey
From his Tuck-Me-In series, Arthur Scott Bailey wrote many "Tales" books about animals and birds to be read to children for bed-ti…
The Trolls of Lake Maebiewahnapoopie
Read by Jeff White
Jeff White
You may think you know about small towns. You may think you know about high school principals. You may think you know about high society poo…
The Little Colonel in Arizona
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Annie Fellows Johnston
In The Little Colonel in Arizona the story is centered around the Ware family, who, after their husband and father has died, and due to the …