Children's Fiction
The Wouldbegoods, Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers
Read by Alan Chant
E. Nesbit
The Bastable children, first met in The Treasure Seekers, are sent to stay in the countryside; is it large enough to contain their exuberant…
The Adventures of Sammy Jay
Read by Rachel
Thornton W. Burgess
There's nothing that sly troublemaker Sammy Jay likes better than stealing corn - unless it's playing tricks on the other animals in the for…
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
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Hugh Lofting
In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up…
Little Wizard Stories of Oz
Read by Maddie
L. Frank Baum
The "Little Wizard Stories of Oz" are six short stories written by L. Frank Baum in 1913. By all accounts, Baum intended to finish…
American Indian Fairy Tales
Read by Chip
William Trowbridge Larned
With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by…
Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories
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Thornton W. Burgess
Thornton W. Burgess was a conservationist and prolific author of children's books. His gently humorous stories about the animals of the mead…
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates
Read by Mark F. Smith
Mary Mapes Dodge
Mary Mapes Dodge created an instant bestseller with "Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates." She wanted the book to be partly a book o…
Emily of New Moon
Read by Leanne Fortune
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely -- until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives…
Blast of the Dragon's Fury
Read by L. R. W. Lee
L. R. W. Lee
Ten-year-old, Andy Smithson believes he is merely a kid too often in trouble--until his destiny as the Chosen One to break a 500-year-old cu…
The Light Princess
Read by Fox in the Stars
George MacDonald
Plenty of princesses have been cursed by wicked witches, but the curse placed on this princess by her evil aunt is an unusual one: it remove…
Elsie Dinsmore
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Martha Finley
Elsie, young and motherless, has never met her father and is being raised by her father's family. As a strong Christian, she has many trials…
At Agincourt - White Hoods of Paris
Read by Mike Harris
G. A. Henty
The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with…
Little Lord Fauntleroy (version 2)
Read by Susan Umpleby
Frances Hodgson Burnett
In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or "dearest") in genteel…
Aesop's Fables, Volume 05 (Fables 101-125)
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Aesop
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
The Iliad for Boys and Girls
Read by Lizzie Driver
Alfred John Church
Alfred J. Church wrote many books looking at classical literature, but is especially well known for his re-telling of classic books in a sty…
The Second Jungle Book
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Rudyard Kipling
Kipling shows his love of the sub continent and its people and understanding of their beliefs in these tales. An older Mowgli roams the jung…
The Guns of Shiloh
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Joseph A. Altsheler
The Northern Army has just be handed a great defeat at Bull Run and is headed back to Washington, DC. How will the North answer this defeat?…
Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories
Read by Carolyn Frances
Louisa May Alcott
Here are tales of love and war, modesty and frivolity, laughter and tears. Louisa May Alcott wrote many, many short stories. This collection…
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Read by L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has been called "the first true American fairy tale" and it richly deserves the title. The story of Do…
A Garland for Girls
Read by Lorelle Anderson
Louisa May Alcott
"These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure s…