Children's Non-fiction

The Chemical History of A Candle

by Michael Faraday Read by Availle 4.9
The Chemical History of a Candle is a series of 6 lectures on chemistry presented to a juvenile audience in 1848. Taught by Michael Faraday …

Indian Boyhood

by Charles Alexander Eastman Read by Carol Pelster 4.7
Indian Boyhood is a lively and appealing first-person recounting of the life of a Sioux child in the last days of the tribe's "wild&quo…

The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

American History Stories

by Mara L. Pratt Read by Kalynda 4.5
American History Stories by Mara L. Pratt invites young listeners on a captivating journey through the early chapters of American history. F…

Hurlbut's Story of the Bible

by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Some years ago, the editor of an English magazine sent a communication to "the hundred greatest men in Great Britain" asking them …

Historical Tales

by Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews Read by Kalynda 4.6
Volume I of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This first volume comprises…

Royal Children of English History

by E. Nesbit Read by Cori Samuel 4.8
From the first chapter: "History is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the thin…

The Man Who Fought the Devil

by Eva K. Betz Read by Maria Therese 4.8
Jean Marie Vianney always found it hard to learn. In fact, he made history by receiving a zero as his examination mark after his first year …

Indian Child Life

by Charles Alexander Eastman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (th…

Our Young Folks' Plutarch

by Rosalie Kaufman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch, Rosalie…

The Discovery of New Worlds

by M. B. Synge Read by Laura Caldwell 4.5
This is the second volume in the series, The Story of the World, which covers the period of history from the rise of Rome to the Conquest of…

The Awakening of Europe

by M. B. Synge Read by Laura Caldwell 4.5
The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge invites listeners on a journey through a transformative period in European history, spanning from 152…

Wings and the Child

by E. Nesbit Read by Cori Samuel 4.6
"When this book first came to my mind it came as a history and theory of the building of Magic Cities on tables, with bricks and toys a…

The Frozen North

by Edith Horton Read by Laura Victoria 4.6
The Frozen North invites young listeners on an adventurous journey through the icy realms of the polar regions. This engaging audiobook pres…

The Story of Napoleon

by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall Read by Patrick Saville 4.4
This book gives an exciting account of Napoleon's rise to power. It opens with his humble beginning on the island of Corsica and ultimately …

Birds of the Air

by Arabella B. Buckley Read by Laura Caldwell 4.5
Arabella Buckley had a great love of nature and wished to impart that love to children. Birds of the Air will encourage children to observe …

The Biography of a Grizzly

by Ernest Thompson Seton Read by John W. Michaels 4.7
I first read this little book when I was in the fifth grade, and now more than fifty years later, I still find it fascinating. Ernest Thomps…

The Two Bears

by J. C. Ryle Read by MaryAnn 4.6
”Let no one make you think that you are too young to serve God. That is not true. As soon as you know right from wrong, you are old enough t…

The Bible For Young People

by William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
"The Bible for Young People tells the sweet and simple stories of the Bible in the Bible language, omitting only genealogies and doctri…

Trees Every Child Should Know

by Julia Ellen Rogers Read by MaryAnn 5
Trees Every Child Should Know invites young listeners to explore the fascinating world of trees through engaging observations and hands-on l…

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