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Daniel Philpott
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Anna Bentinck
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H. E. Marshall
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H. E. Marshall’s classic children’s chronicle of Britain, Our Island Story, includes all the best-loved (and most infamous!) stories from history: King Alfred and the cakes, King John and the Magna Carta, Lord Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar, Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada, and many others. This recording contains the complete and unabridged text, released previously in separate volumes. It is read with aplomb by Anna Bentinck and Daniel Philpott.
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Elizabeth Ann is being carefully brought up by her Aunt Frances. Aunt Frances shares in all Elizabeth Ann's fears and slights, walks her to and from school each day, and conscientiously follows the most modern theories on child-rearing. She is the original helicopter parent. Not surprisingly, at nine years old Elizabeth Ann is timid and shy, friendless, and completely dependent on her doting aunt. Then an emergency occurs, and the fearful little girl is temporarily sent to other relatives who live on a farm in Vermont.
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Like a picnic on a warm spring day
- By Jo on 11-15-16
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The Burgess Animal Book for Children
- By: Thornton W. Burgess
- Narrated by: Ginger Walton
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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When Jenny Wren learns that Peter Rabbit would like to know more about the four-footed friends who live in the Green Meadows and Green Forest, she recommends Old Mother Nature who is happy to teach him. She tells Peter about a range of creatures such as Arctic Hare and Antelope Jack, Flying Squirrel, Mountain Beaver, Pocket Gopher, Grasshopper Mouse, Silvery Bat, Mule Deer and Grizzly Bear. This absorbing book teaches children about the many forms of wildlife and the animals' relationships with one another.
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A favorite! Read and re-read
- By Anonymous User on 06-25-21
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Fifty Famous Stories Retold
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Cliff Roles
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Legendary tales of the lives of famous people and historic episodes. Of these 50 stories, some have historical value, some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths, and others are intended only to amuse. A few of these stories are from very ancient sources and are current in the literature of many lands, while many of more recent origin have come to us through the ballads and folk tales of the English people. Nearly all are frequently alluded to in poetry and prose.
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Kids Love the Stories
- By Anonymous User on 05-05-13
By: James Baldwin
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Thornton W. Burgess Box Set
- The Adventures of Sammy Jay; The Burgess Bird Book for Children; The Burgess Animal Book for Children; & Old Granny Fox
- By: Thornton W. Burgess
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
- Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
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Thornton Waldo Burgess (1874-1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved nature and its wild animals so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column. The delightful Adventures of Sammy Jay combines humorous animal escapades with gentle lessons about wildlife and nature, while The Burgess Bird Book for Children (1919) is a classic nature book which introduces young listeners to the subject of bird life by means of a series of interviews within a story....
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A Child's History of the World
- By: V. M. Hillyer
- Narrated by: Jason Damron
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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One of the finest history books for children, this well-loved Hillyer classic features stories of world history from prehistoric man through the 20th century, inspiring an appreciation of how events relate to one another.
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Why has this book been changed?
- By Anonymous User on 02-21-21
By: V. M. Hillyer
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Parables from Nature, Complete Set
- By: Margaret Gatty
- Narrated by: David Thorn, Bobbie Frohman
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Entertaining stories of nature with a moral lesson thrown in for good measure are fun as well as thought provoking. Children will be enthralled with the intimate look into the lives of the woodland creatures and their way of life. Subtleness in making a moral point is always a strength in Ms. Gatty’s stories.
By: Margaret Gatty
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Understood Betsy
- By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Narrated by: Anne Hancock
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth Ann is being carefully brought up by her Aunt Frances. Aunt Frances shares in all Elizabeth Ann's fears and slights, walks her to and from school each day, and conscientiously follows the most modern theories on child-rearing. She is the original helicopter parent. Not surprisingly, at nine years old Elizabeth Ann is timid and shy, friendless, and completely dependent on her doting aunt. Then an emergency occurs, and the fearful little girl is temporarily sent to other relatives who live on a farm in Vermont.
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Like a picnic on a warm spring day
- By Jo on 11-15-16
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The Burgess Animal Book for Children
- By: Thornton W. Burgess
- Narrated by: Ginger Walton
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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When Jenny Wren learns that Peter Rabbit would like to know more about the four-footed friends who live in the Green Meadows and Green Forest, she recommends Old Mother Nature who is happy to teach him. She tells Peter about a range of creatures such as Arctic Hare and Antelope Jack, Flying Squirrel, Mountain Beaver, Pocket Gopher, Grasshopper Mouse, Silvery Bat, Mule Deer and Grizzly Bear. This absorbing book teaches children about the many forms of wildlife and the animals' relationships with one another.
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A favorite! Read and re-read
- By Anonymous User on 06-25-21
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This Country of Ours, Complete Set
- Stories of Explorers and Pioneers, Virginia, New England, the Middle and Southern Colonies, the French in America, the Struggle for Liberty and the United States Under the Constitution
- By: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Narrated by: David Thorn, Bobbie Frohman
- Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
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In This Country of Ours, H. E. Marshall tells the story of America from the start of the settlements, to 1912, ending with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. She tells it in a fashion that children are able to understand, and that will keep them interested. Marshall has filled this book with about 100 years of history, breaking them down by regions.
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Interesting, but....
- By Anonymous User on 01-19-17
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Trial and Triumph
- Stories from Church History
- By: Richard M. Hannula
- Narrated by: Daniel Newman
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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We too often view Church history as the story of obscure aliens instead of the lives of brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers. In this collection of 46 brief biographies for children, Hannula sketches the stirring trials and triumphs of many famous and some lesser known figures in our family of faith including Augustine, Charlemagne, Anselm, Luther, Bunyan, and C. S. Lewis. Through them, we can begin to enjoy the old paths and find rest for our souls.
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Excellent book!
- By Anonymous User on 04-26-23
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Swallows and Amazons
- By: Arthur Ransome
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Swallows and Amazons, the book that started it all in 1930, introduces the Walker family, the camp on Wild Cat Island, the able-bodied catboat "Swallow," and the two intrepid Amazons, plucky Nancy and Peggy Blackett.
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Idyllic, Funny, Vivid Childhood Adventure-Play
- By Anonymous User on 02-05-11
By: Arthur Ransome
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A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
- By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Narrated by: James Joy
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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