🟡 Kids Books: Bedtime Stories
Kids Books: Bedtime Stories offers a collection of classic children's stories, fairy tales, and audiobooks meant for bedtime and relaxation. It features public domain works from beloved authors, including adventure, animal, and magical tales for young listeners. Episodes are designed for quiet time, naps, car rides, and screen-free family listening. The podcast aims to help children wind down with gentle, peaceful storytelling.
Episodes
🟡 What Katy Did (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Susan Coolidge
Follow the adventures of Katy Carr and her family, through good times and bad. (Summary by Karen Savage).Author: Susan CoolidgeLength: 4 hours 35 minutesGenre: Children's FictionChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 117:38 - Chapter 232:30 - Chapter 351:09 - Chapter 401:10:51 - Chapter 501:30:25 - Chapter 601:58:26 - Chapter 702:24:44 - Chapter 802:45:22 - Chapter 903:12:29 - Chapter 1003:39:18 - Chapt
🟡 Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome (Full Audiobook) | E. M. Berens - Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of 2.\n\nThis is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. (Summary by Sibella).Author: E. M. BerensLength: 11 hours 23 minutesGenre: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, HistoricalChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 117:28 - Chapter 241:13 - Chapter
🟡 Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome (Full Audiobook) | E. M. Berens - Part 1 of 2
Part 1 of 2.\n\nThis is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. (Summary by Sibella).Author: E. M. BerensLength: 11 hours 23 minutesGenre: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, HistoricalChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 117:28 - Chapter 241:13 - Chapter
🟡 Cousin's Conspiracy (Full Audiobook) | Horatio Alger, Jr.
Ernest Ray is a young boy who sets out to reclaim the inheritance that was unjustly with held from his father and given to a cousin. (Introduction by Abigail Rasmussen).Author: Horatio Alger, Jr.Length: 5 hours 15 minutesGenre: Children's FictionChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 108:17 - Chapter 217:25 - Chapter 325:33 - Chapter 434:50 - Chapter 542:38 - Chapter 651:23 - Chapter 758:31 - Chapter 80
🟡 William Tell Told Again (Full Audiobook) | P. G. Wodehouse
This is the classic story of William Tell - Swiss patriot and great apple-shooter - as seen through the eyes of English humorist P. G. Wodehouse.Author: P. G. WodehouseLength: 1 hours 44 minutesGenre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Humorous FictionChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 115:59 - Chapter 228:25 - Chapter 340:43 - Chapter 452:40 - Chapter 501:06:01 - Chap
🟡 Robin Hood (Full Audiobook) | J. Walker McSpadden
Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes.Author: J. Walker McSpaddenLength: 5 hours 56 minutesGenre: Action & Adventure
🟡 Grimm Tales Made Gay (Full Audiobook) | Guy Wetmore Carryl
A comic rendering in verse of well-loved Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, each ending with a moral and full of puns. The titles of the tales themselves make another verse. (Summary by Annise).Author: Guy Wetmore CarrylLength: 1 hours 6 minutesGenre: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Humorous Fiction, PoetryChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 102:31 - Chapter 205:30 - Chapter 308:35 - Chapter 411:35
🟡 Shadows (Full Audiobook) | George MacDonald
"Old Ralph Rinkelmann made his living by comic sketches, and all but lost it again by tragic poems. So he was just the man to be chosen king of the fairies. " George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 - September 18, 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.Author: George MacDonaldLength: 1 hours 28 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, Fantastic FictionChaptersChapters:00:00 - Ch
🟡 Violet: A Fairy Story (Full Audiobook) | Caroline Snowden Guild
A charming fairytale -- with realistic touches -- from the mid-19th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes).Author: Caroline Snowden GuildLength: 2 hours 22 minutesGenre: Myths, Legends & Fairy TalesChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 101:09 - Chapter 205:45 - Chapter 311:02 - Chapter 415:00 - Chapter 519:37 - Chapter 623:58 - Chapter 727:42 - Chapter 832:17 - Chapter 936:28 - Chapter 1042:51 - Chapte
🟡 Celtic Fairy Tales (Full Audiobook) | Joseph Jacobs
Celtic Fairy Tales is a collection of 25 folk and fairy stories collected from Ireland and Scotland. At what I imagine is the Frontispiece, or the dedication page, is the phrase: _SAY THIS /Three times, with your eyes shut_/ Mothuighim boladh an ireannaigh bhinn bhreugaigh faoi m'fhidn dthaigh. _And you will see/What you will see_ A loose translation of this Gaelic phrase is "I sense the smel
🟡 Sintram and His Companions (Full Audiobook) | Friedrich de la Motte Fouqu
Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, also the author of Undine, was a German Romantic writer whose stories were filled with knights, damsels in distress, evil enchantments, and the struggle of good against overpowering evil. 'My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. ' Fouque blends the Romantic love for nature and ancient chivalry while telling a powerful story about a young man w
🟡 Little Bush Maid (Full Audiobook) | Mary Grant Bruce
An Australian children's classic about life on a ranch around the same time of A Little Florida Lady, with a similarly plucky tomboy heroine. Also, like the latter story, expect some racial stereotyping of Asian and Aboriginal characters. (Summary by BellonaTimes).Author: Mary Grant BruceLength: 6 hours 38 minutesGenre: Children's FictionChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 118:59 - Chapter 236:25 - C
🟡 Mabinogion, Volume 1 (Full Audiobook) | Anonymous
Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest: On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flock of black sheep. And whenever one of the white sheep bleated, one of the black sheep would cross over, and become white; and when one of the black sheep bleated, one of the white sheep would cross over, and become black. Before passing on to the Mabinogion
🟡 Black Fawn (Full Audiobook) | Jim Kjelgaard
Bud Sloan was an orphan who had been 'sold out' of the orphanage to work on a farm once he'd been old enough to labor. The farm where he was to work was owned by an aging farmer and his wife who had raised a large family and were now left alone. One day, after his chores were done, Bud wandered into the woods nearby and with mouth agape, he noticed a newborn jet black fawn all alone and apparently
🟡 Popular Tales from the Norse (Full Audiobook) | Sir George Webbe Dasent - Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of 2.\n\nThe most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has been familiar from his earliest youth. They are Nursery Tales, in fact, of the days when there were tales in nurseries--old wives' fables, which have faded away before the light of gas and the power of steam. (Excerpt from <em>Popular Tales
🟡 Popular Tales from the Norse (Full Audiobook) | Sir George Webbe Dasent - Part 1 of 2
Part 1 of 2.\n\nThe most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has been familiar from his earliest youth. They are Nursery Tales, in fact, of the days when there were tales in nurseries--old wives' fables, which have faded away before the light of gas and the power of steam. (Excerpt from <em>Popular Tales
🟡 Gate of the Giant Scissors (Full Audiobook) | 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 house with the gate of The Giant Scissors, Jules, her little playmate, Sister Denis, the cruel Brossard, and her dear Aunt Kate. (Summary from an original 1898 copy of book. ).Author: Annie Fellows JohnstonLength: 3 hours 0 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, Sch
🟡 Viking Tales (Full Audiobook) | Jennie Hall
Viking tales are tales from Iceland, featuring the king Halfdan and his son Harald. (Summary by Nadine).Author: Jennie HallLength: 3 hours 29 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, Short StoriesChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 105:19 - Chapter 207:38 - Chapter 315:28 - Chapter 425:32 - Chapter 531:27 - Chapter 637:01 - Chapter 747:00 - Chapter 857:14 - Chapter 901:07:55 - Chapter 1001:15:53 - Chapter 1
🟡 Raggedy Ann Stories (Full Audiobook) | Johnny Gruelle
To the millions of children and grown-ups who have loved a Rag Doll, the author dedicated these stories. Now listen as eight voices read to you Raggedy Ann's exciting adventures, as gentle and charming today, as they were when first published in 1918. Find out what is written on her candy heart, what was the gift the fairies brought, and all about Raggedy Ann's new sisters.Author: Johnny GruelleLe
🟡 Adventures of Reddy Fox (Full Audiobook) | Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Reddy Fox is another in the series of children's stories by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this story, Reddy and Granny Fox must outsmart Farmer Brown's Boy who is out to get Reddy for stealing his pet chicken.Author: Thornton W. BurgessLength: 1 hours 38 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, Animals & NatureChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 118:58 - Chapter 234:28 - Chap
🟡 Birds' Christmas Carol (Full Audiobook) | Kate Douglas Wiggin
Carol Bird was born on Christmas Day. She has spent all of her 11 years putting others above herself, always finding ways to make their lives a little more special. Even when faced with her own illness, the pure goodness of her heart shines through.Author: Kate Douglas WigginLength: 1 hours 12 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, FamilyChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 108:19 - Chapter 214:37 - Chapte
🟡 Parables from Nature (Full Audiobook) | Margaret Gatty - Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of 2.\n\nParables From Nature is a collection of short stories which were originally published as 4 separate volumes. They are inspired from Nature and written for children. Nevertheless, Gatty uses children's literature because she knows that in doing so, she can reach a wider group of readers and point out problems from the Victorian Age.Author: Margaret GattyLength: 11 hours 13 minutesGe
🟡 Parables from Nature (Full Audiobook) | Margaret Gatty - Part 1 of 2
Part 1 of 2.\n\nParables From Nature is a collection of short stories which were originally published as 4 separate volumes. They are inspired from Nature and written for children. Nevertheless, Gatty uses children's literature because she knows that in doing so, she can reach a wider group of readers and point out problems from the Victorian Age.Author: Margaret GattyLength: 11 hours 13 minutesGe
🟡 Anne of Avonlea (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Lucy Maud Montgomery
The second part in the story of Anne Shirley, covering her years of teaching at Avonlea School, before she heads off to college. Other books in this series by this reader: <a href="http://librivox. org/anne-of-green-gables-by-lucy-maud-montgomery-3/" target="_blank">Anne of Green Gables</a> <a href="http://librivox.Author: Lucy Maud MontgomeryLength: 7 hours
🟡 Yellow Fairy Book (Full Audiobook) | Andrew Lang - Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of 2.\n\n"Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving man
🟡 Yellow Fairy Book (Full Audiobook) | Andrew Lang - Part 1 of 2
Part 1 of 2.\n\n"Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving man
🟡 Tin Woodman of Oz (Full Audiobook) | L. Frank Baum
The Tin Woodman of Oz is the twelfth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum and was originally published on May 13, 1918. The Tin Woodman is unexpectedly reunited with his Munchkin sweetheart Nimmie Amee from the days when he was flesh and blood.Author: L. Frank BaumLength: 5 hours 15 minutesGenre: Children's FictionChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 103:28 - Chapter 216:58 - Chapter 329:14 - Chap
🟡 Nights With Uncle Remus (Full Audiobook) | Joel Chandler Harris - Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of 2.\n\nThat the little boy loved Uncle Remus and his stories was so obvious that the tale-spinning sessions began drawing additional listeners. Daddy Jack, an old "Africa man" visiting from down-state; Sis Tempy, the strong chief of the mansion's servants; and Tildy, a young and pretty servant-girl - all found their way to Uncle Remus' rude cabin when their duties or interests p
🟡 Nights With Uncle Remus (Full Audiobook) | Joel Chandler Harris - Part 1 of 2
Part 1 of 2.\n\nThat the little boy loved Uncle Remus and his stories was so obvious that the tale-spinning sessions began drawing additional listeners. Daddy Jack, an old "Africa man" visiting from down-state; Sis Tempy, the strong chief of the mansion's servants; and Tildy, a young and pretty servant-girl - all found their way to Uncle Remus' rude cabin when their duties or interests p
🟡 East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Full Audiobook) | Peter Christen Asbjrnsen
Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn't much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty children they all were, but the prettiest was the youngest daughter, who was so lovely there was no end to her loveliness. So one day, 'twas on a Thursday evening late at the fall of the year, the weather was so wild and rough outside, and it was so cruelly dark,
🟡 Secret Garden (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Frances Hodgson Burnett
When Mary Lennox, who has been brought up in India in a spoiled manner, is orphaned she has to move to Yorkshire, England, to live with her uncle in Misselthwaite Manor. Here she is treated much differently than she was in India - she is able to make friends with children her own age, one of these being her sickly cousin, Colin Craven (Introduction by ashleighjane).Author: Frances Hodgson BurnettL
🟡 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (Full Audiobook) | Charles Perrault
This book is an early collection of ten well-known fairy tales. It is thought to have begun the genre of fairy tales. (Summary by A.Author: Charles PerraultLength: 2 hours 51 minutesGenre: Myths, Legends & Fairy TalesChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 118:13 - Chapter 223:42 - Chapter 329:53 - Chapter 442:01 - Chapter 501:06:11 - Chapter 601:18:19 - Chapter 701:34:12 - Chapter 801:51:34 - Chapte
🟡 Drama of Exile (Full Audiobook) | Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In writing her 'Drama of Exile', Barrett's subject was 'the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from Paradise into the wilderness'. The bizarre, lyrical scenes that follow powerfully describe the grief and guilt of Eve, the sorrowful pride of Lucifer, and the redeeming power of love. (summary by Patrick Beverley, quotation from the preface) <b>Cast of Characte
🟡 What Katy Did at School (Full Audiobook) | Susan Coolidge
The continuing story of Katy Carr, recounting the time she spent at boarding school with her sister Clover. (Summary by Karen Savage).Author: Susan CoolidgeLength: 4 hours 20 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, SchoolChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 124:07 - Chapter 243:06 - Chapter 359:10 - Chapter 401:16:54 - Chapter 501:35:11 - Chapter 601:59:05 - Chapter 702:17:43 - Chapter 802:35:15 - Chapter 9
🟡 Slipper Point Mystery (Full Audiobook) | Augusta Huiell Seaman
When fourteen year old Sally Carter shares her secret about When fourteen year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discovered on Slipper Point with her new friend Doris Craig, she couldn't possibly imagine where the solution to this intriguing mystery will lead them. Augusta Huiell Seaman is the author of over 40 historical fiction and mystery novels for older children most of whi
🟡 Poor Little Rich Girl (Full Audiobook) | Eleanor Gates
The Poor Little Rich Girl is a children's fantasy about a little girl named Gwendolyn who is lonely and longs for a friend. But she is isolated by rich parents who ignore her and left to the care of servants who are indifferent. Her nanny's carelessness with some medicine plunges Gwendolyn into a bewildering world in which metaphors literally come to life.Author: Eleanor GatesLength: 7 hours 14 mi
🟡 More William (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Richmal Crompton
More William is the second William collection in the much acclaimed Just William series by Richmal Crompton. It is a sequel to the book Just William. The book was first published in 1922, (Summary by Wikipedia).Author: Richmal CromptonLength: 4 hours 48 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, General Fiction, Short StoriesChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 125:40 - Chapter 247:22 - Chapter 301:07:58 - Cha
🟡 Phoenix and the Carpet (Full Audiobook) | E. Nesbit
The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written in 1904 by E. Nesbit. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that began with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five protagonists - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb.Author: E. NesbitLength: 6 hours 37 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, General FictionChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 134:07
🟡 Undine (Full Audiobook) | Friedrich de la Motte Fouqu
<em>Undine</em> is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqu concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages. The novel served as inspiration for two operas in the romantic style by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann and Albert Lortzing, respectively, and t
🟡 Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01 (Full Audiobook) | Anonymous - Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of 2.\n\nThis is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900.Author: AnonymousLength: 13
🟡 Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01 (Full Audiobook) | Anonymous - Part 1 of 2
Part 1 of 2.\n\nThis is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900.Author: AnonymousLength: 13
🟡 Princess and the Goblin (Full Audiobook) | George MacDonald
The Princess and the Goblin is an enthralling fantasy tale written by George MacDonald. Her nurse Lootie raises the princess Irene in a house on a mountain, it is here that she meets her mysterious great-great-grandmother, and her friend the minor boy Curdie. Things are peaceful for Irene until the hideous race of goblins that live beneath the mountain start planning something big... Through his w
🟡 Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children (Full Audiobook) | Charles Kingsley
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and believed the adventures of the characters would inspire children to achieve higher goals with integrity.Author: Charles KingsleyLength: 5 hours 24 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, Myths
🟡 Wind in the Willows (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Kenneth Grahame
The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, destruction of private property (plenty of that), paganism, and a happy ending. The prose is beautiful and occasionally requires the use of a dictionary - I had to look up "asperities.Author: Kenneth GrahameLength: 6 hours 55 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, A
🟡 Scarecrow of Oz (Full Audiobook) | L. Frank Baum
The Scarecrow of Oz is the ninth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. Published on July 16, 1915, it was Baum's personal favorite of the Oz books and tells of Cap'n Bill and Trot journeying to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow, overthrowing the cruel King Krewl of Jinxland.Author: L. Frank BaumLength: 5 hours 3 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, Dramatic Readings, Fantastic Fic
🟡 Old Peter's Russian Tales (Full Audiobook) | Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome is best known for his <i>Swallows and Amazons</i> series of children's books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public domain. These stories are all from Russian folklore, some comparatively well-known, others less so.Author: Arthur RansomeLength: 7 hours 41 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy TalesChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 11
🟡 Anne of Green Gables (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Lucy Maud Montgomery
The timeless story of the young orphan girl sent by accident to a brother and sister who had wanted a boy, Anne, with her vivid imagination and sensitive spirit, has enchanted readers for generations. (Summary by Karen Savage) Other books in this series by this reader: <a href="http://librivox. org/anne-of-avonlea-by-lucy-maud-montgomery-2/" target="_blank">Anne of Avonle
🟡 Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Full Audiobook) | James Otis
James Otis wrote a series of books depicting life in the new colonies, written from a child's point of view. Ruth of Boston is the story of 12 year old Ruth, coming from London to live in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It gives accounts of what a girl's daily life might have been like during the beginnings of this colony.Author: James OtisLength: 3 hours 7 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, Historic
🟡 Wonderful Bed (Full Audiobook) | Gertrude Knevels
Little kids sent to stay the night with their Aunt Jane find themselves sharing an enormous bed. So enormous is it, that when they make a tent of the bed sheets and crawl in, they never make it to the foot of the bed, crawling instead into a dreamworld of caves and pirates and adventures. (summary by ohosostrange).Author: Gertrude KnevelsLength: 3 hours 17 minutesGenre: Children's FictionChaptersC
🟡 Raggedy Andy Stories (Full Audiobook) | Johnny Gruelle
Raggedy Ann is a fictional character created by writer Johnny Gruelle (1880-1938) in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young children. Raggedy Ann is a rag doll with red yarn for hair. The character was created in 1915 as a doll, and was introduced to the public in the 1918 book <i>Raggedy Ann Stories</i>.Author: Johnny GruelleLength: 1 hours 39 minutesGenre: Children's Fi
🟡 Pollyanna Grows Up (Full Audiobook) | Eleanor H. Porter
Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman searching for her lost nephew. Her Aunt Polly goes abroad with her new Uncle, Dr.Author: Eleanor H. PorterLength: 8 hours 58 minutesGenre: Children's FictionChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 119:13 - Chapter 244:25 - Chapter 301:05:03 - Chapter 401:21:19 - Chapte
🟡 Grandma Janice's Poems and Stories (Full Audiobook) | Various
The poems and stories in this collection were selected with the reader's grandchildren in mind. "The Raggedy Man" and "Little Orphant Annie," both by James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier Poet were favorites of the reader when she was a child on a farm in Indiana. Other favorites were picked up along the way as she read to her own daughter and to her students, while other gems were discovered while lo
🟡 Day Boy and the Night Girl (Full Audiobook) | George MacDonald
A boy named Photogen, who has never seen the moon, meets a girl named Nycteris, who has never seen the sun. The two of them must escape from the witch Watho. As usual with George MacDonald, this fairy tale has layers of meaning that go deeper than the story on the surface.Author: George MacDonaldLength: 1 hours 37 minutesGenre: Myths, Legends & Fairy TalesChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 114:5
🟡 Understood Betsy (Full Audiobook) | Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Understood Betsy is a 1916 novel for children by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The story tells of Elizabeth Ann, a 9-year-old orphan who goes from a sheltered existence with her father's aunt Harriet and cousin Frances in the city, to living on a Vermont farm with her mother's family, the Putneys, whose child-rearing practices had always seemed suspect to Harriet and her daughter. In her new rural life
🟡 Japanese Fairy Tales (Full Audiobook) | Yei Theodora Ozaki
First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold by the author, Yei Theodora Ozaki, who states: ". in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West. " In part, the project was the result of a
🟡 Fifty Famous Stories Retold (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | James Baldwin
Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse. Some are derived from very ancient sources, and are current in the literature of many lands; some have come to us through the ballads and folk tales of the English people; a few are of quite recent origin (Excerpt from text).Au
🟡 Gawayne and the Green Knight (Lewis Translation Version 2) (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | The Gawain Poet
Published in 1903, Gawayne and the Green Knight is a modern-language retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a 14th-century verse romance following a young knight of the Round Table. During Christmas celebrations, a mysterious, entirely green knight presents a challenge to King Arthur's court: that any may strike the stranger a single blow with his green axe, provided he assent to receiving
🟡 Jingle Book (Full Audiobook) | Carolyn Wells
A collection of silly poetry and limericks for children.Author: Carolyn WellsLength: 1 hours 26 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, PoetryChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 122:57 - Chapter 244:15 - Chapter 301:06:21 - Chapter 4Audiobook recording provided by LibriVox volunteers.Curated and presented by 🟡 Kids Books: Bedtime Stories.Discover more free classic audiobooks and bedtime stories at https://
🟡 Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare (Full Audiobook) | E. Nesbit
Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works. She set about to retell his plays in a language that children would not only understand, but delight in. This is a marvelous introduction to the works of Shakespeare that ALL will enjoy.Author: E. NesbitLength: 5 hours 2 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, Sho
🟡 New Chronicles of Rebecca (Full Audiobook) | Kate Douglas Wiggin
This book tells further stories from the period of Rebecca's sojourn in Riverboro.Author: Kate Douglas WigginLength: 6 hours 23 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, Family LifeChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 144:53 - Chapter 201:12:48 - Chapter 302:15:36 - Chapter 402:42:52 - Chapter 503:21:11 - Chapter 603:40:10 - Chapter 704:17:27 - Chapter 804:45:18 - Chapter 905:13:48 - Chapter 1005:44:50 - Chap
🟡 Old Indian Legends (Full Audiobook) | Zitkala-Sa
Fourteen Old Indian Legends by Native American (Dakota) Author Zitkala-sa. These Legends feature the exploits of Iktomi the Native American Trickster god. (summary by Robert Scott).Author: Zitkala-SaLength: 2 hours 50 minutesGenre: Myths, Legends & Fairy TalesChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 117:28 - Chapter 226:06 - Chapter 335:12 - Chapter 444:24 - Chapter 559:10 - Chapter 601:19:23 - Chapte
🟡 Myths and Legends of All Nations (Full Audiobook) | Logan Marshall
This excellent book contains many great stories from the various mythologies of man throughout the ages.Author: Logan MarshallLength: 8 hours 58 minutesGenre: Myths, Legends & Fairy TalesChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 102:27 - Chapter 209:21 - Chapter 343:09 - Chapter 451:01 - Chapter 558:21 - Chapter 601:06:14 - Chapter 702:03:02 - Chapter 802:37:34 - Chapter 903:15:59 - Chapter 1003:37:14
🟡 Just So Stories (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Rudyard Kipling
The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So Stories were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself. Read along online and see the illustrations at <a href="http://www.Author: Rudyard KiplingLength: 3 hours 12 minutesGenre: Animals & NatureChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 107:17 - Chapter 2
🟡 Little Bear (Full Audiobook) | Laura Rountree Smith
A story for children about a little bear with no name, "there were not enough names to go round," and his adventures in finding one. (Summary by Carolyn Frances).Author: Laura Rountree SmithLength: 1 hours 28 minutesGenre: Animals & NatureChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 105:05 - Chapter 210:37 - Chapter 316:52 - Chapter 422:33 - Chapter 528:45 - Chapter 634:52 - Chapter 741:45 - Chapter 847:3
🟡 Around the World in Eighty Days (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Jules Verne
Mysterious Phileas Fogg is a cool customer. A man of the most repetitious and punctual habit - with no apparent sense of adventure whatsoever - he gambles his considerable fortune that he can complete a journey around the world in just 80 days. immediately after a newspaper calculates the feat as just barely possible.Author: Jules VerneLength: 7 hours 35 minutesGenre: Action & Adventure Fictio
🟡 Raggedy Ann Stories (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Johnny Gruelle
This is the book that started it all. Johnny Gruelle gave his daughter Marcella a rag doll, on which he had drawn an eternally smiling face. Marcella and Raggedy Ann became inseparable, and inspired Gruelle to write Raggedy Ann Stories, which was sold with its very own Raggedy Ann doll.Author: Johnny GruelleLength: 1 hours 49 minutesGenre: GeneralChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 105:26 - Chapter 2
🟡 Soup of Alphabets from A-Z (Full Audiobook) | Various
A collection of children's alphabet rhymes including Footsteps On the Road to Learning - a short text from 1850 which teaches children the English alphabet in rime--so that a child may not become a dunce. The Anti Slavery Alphabet - a book prepared to encourage young children to speak against the institution of slavery in 19th century United States. The method used is an alphabetical listing of th
🟡 Tree-Dwellers (Full Audiobook) | Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
Katharine E. Dopp was well-known as a teacher and writer of children's textbooks at the turn of the 20th Century.Author: Katharine Elizabeth DoppLength: 2 hours 22 minutesGenre: SchoolChapters:00:00 - Chapter 108:18 - Chapter 210:01 - Chapter 311:33 - Chapter 413:54 - Chapter 517:00 - Chapter 618:58 - Chapter 720:50 - Chapter 823:41 - Chapter 925:54 - Chapter 1028:50 - Chapter 1130:53 - Chapter 12
🟡 Devil's Pool (Full Audiobook) | George Sand
George Sand (the pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804-1876) is famous for flaunting the conventions of behavior expected of women of her standing in France at the time and for her numerous romantic liaisons including her long standing affair with Frederic Chopin. The Devil's Pool (published in 1846 as La Mare au Diable) is one of several short pastoral novels drawn from her childhood expe
🟡 More William (Full Audiobook) | Richmal Crompton
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The second of Crompton's series of 39 books about William Brown, our cheeky 11 year-old protagonist. A hero to some, a dastardly villain to others, this book is structured round a year in his life. Author: Richmal Crompton Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction, General Fiction, Humorous Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 31:29 - Chapter
🟡 Anne’s House of Dreams (Full Audiobook) | Lucy Maud Montgomery
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com <i>Anne's House of Dreams</i> is book five in the series, and chronicles Anne's early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together. (Summary from Wikipedia). Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction, General Fiction, Romance Chapters: 00:00 - Chapt
🟡 Many Voices (selection from) (Full Audiobook) | E. Nesbit
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com E. Nesbit (Edith Bland) was a prodigious 19th century children's writer who produced over 60 books of fiction for children. Author: E. Nesbit Length: 1 hours 3 minutes Genre: Poetry #FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #FreeAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.org. All LibriVox recordings are in the public do
🟡 Selected Lullabies of Eugene Field (Full Audiobook) | Eugene Field
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The sweetest songs the world has ever heard are the lullabies that have been crooned above its cradles. The music of Beethoven and Mozart, of Mendelssohn and Schumann may perish, but so long as mothers sing their babies to sleep the melody of cradle lullabies will remain. Author: Eugene Field Length: 20 minutes Genre: Poetry Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1
🟡 Adventures of a Brownie as Told to my Child (Full Audiobook) | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Adventures of a Brownie follows the life of a brownie who lives in a family's coal cellar and the adventures he gets into with the members of the household. Written by Ancilla. Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Length: 1 hours 53 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction, Fantastic Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 16:01 - Chapter 2 26:05 - Chapter 3 54:09 - C
🟡 Tik-Tok of Oz (Full Audiobook) | L. Frank Baum
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Betsy Bobbin encounters many strange and exciting adventures and people in the land of Oz; a side-plot is Queen Ann of Oogaboo's mission to take over Oz. (Summary by Ryan T. Author: L. Frank Baum Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 02:44 - Chapter 2 14:12 - Chapter 3 17:01 - Chapter 4 35:06 - Chapter 5 40:20
🟡 Blue Fairy Book (Full Audiobook) | Andrew Lang
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. Author: Andrew Lang Length: 13 hours 52 minutes Genre: Animals & Nature, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales Chapte
🟡 Sylvie and Bruno (Full Audiobook) | Lewis Carroll
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairy tale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's most famous children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the story set in Victorian Britain i
🟡 Gawayne and the Green Knight (Lewis Translation) (Full Audiobook) | The Gawain Poet
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Charlton Miner Lewis' version of <i>Gawayne and the Green Knight</i>, a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telling the story of the Green Knight's challenge to Gawayne, and the romance between Sir Gawayne and Lady Elfinheart. The name Gawayne is often also spelled Gawain. Author: The Gawain Poet Length: 1 h
🟡 Peterkin Papers (Full Audiobook) | Lucretia P. Hale
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy--but not common sense. The general formula is that the family tries to solve some problem in an appealingly roundabout way, fails, and is eventually rescued by "the wise old lady from Philadelphia" who always cuts the Gordian knot with some
🟡 Girl Who Sat by the Ashes (Full Audiobook) | Pdraic Colum
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com "Because she used to herd Goats in the high places and the rocky places, she went by the name of Girl-go-with-the-Goats. But that was not the name that she herself called herself. Author: Pdraic Colum Length: 2 hours 5 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 07:34 - Chapter 2 14:25 - Chapter 3 22:3
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