Among the Pond People

Lovely book for children written by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People" series explores the animal inhabitants of a pond. The beautiful writing brings the pond creatures into being in the reader's imagination and allows them a glimpse of the mysterious lives being carried out above and below the water's surface. (Summary by Jill Engle) (3 hr 20 min)

Chapters

Preface	3:04	Read by Jill Engle
The Biggest Frog Awakens	12:22	Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett
The Dance of the Sand-hill Cranes	8:49	Read by Jon Kissack
The Young Minnow Who Would Not Eat When He Should	8:17	Read by Claire Schreuder
The Stickleback Father	11:05	Read by Deon Gines
The Careless Caddis Worm	11:35	Read by Deon Gines
The Tadpole Who Wanted to be Grown Up	12:22	Read by Deon Gines
The Runaway Water Spiders	10:35	Read by rookieblue
The Slow Little Mud Turtle	12:18	Read by Jennifer Dorr
The Dragon-fly Children and the Snapping Turtle	9:00	Read by Jill Engle
The Snappy Snapping Turtle	13:51	Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett
The Clever Water-Adder	8:30	Read by Jon Kissack
The Good Little Cranes Who Were Bad	14:11	Read by Sharon Kilmer
The Oldest Dragon-fly Nymph	13:24	Read by Sharon Kilmer
The Eels' Moving-Night	10:41	Read by Jennifer Dorr
The Crayfish Mother	7:56	Read by Claire Schreuder
Two Little Crayfishes Quarrel	8:35	Read by Kathy Wright
The Lucky Mink	13:05	Read by Kathy Wright
The Playful Muskrats	11:05	Read by Kathy Wright

Reviews

(4.5 stars)

Annika Matson

I enjoyed this book but not quite as much as Clara's books about the farm animals. Perhaps it is because I'm more familiar with farm animals, but the changing of readers was a bit annoying.