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Wind in the Willows (Version 6)

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Action & Adventure, Animals & Nature, Family
Chapter: 12 | Listen: 7

The Wind in the Willows is a classic children’s book–enjoyed by all ages!–by British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Begun as letters to his 7-year-old son Alistair and later developed into a novel, it tells the adventures of animals Mole, Rat, and Toad, who dwell, along with Badger, Otter, and other animals, in the riverbank, fields, and woodlands of the English countryside. Best friends Mole and Rat, along with Badger, are continually rescuing Toad from his scrapes. An encounter with nature god Pan lends a special magic to this tale. In 2011, I recorded this delightful reading by my friend Sarbaga Falk. We made presents of the recordings for Sarbaga’s family and our friends and their children and grandchildren; and had it in mind to put it on LibriVox. Shortly after we recorded Wind in the Willows, Sarbaga was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, which worsened until she passed away in February 2020. Sarbaga loved tales, jokes, and stories, and she would no doubt be tickled to listen to this wonderful tale told in her own inimitable and expressive voice. This stands as a fitting tribute to our dear friend, as she continues to delight us all. – Summary by Cynthia Rylander Crossen [chương_files]

Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology

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Action & Adventure, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
Chapter: 14 | Listen: 3

Asgard Stories – Tales from Norse Mythology. To all our Children who have loved the hearing of these Asgard Stories. This little volume is the outcome of several years experience in telling to classes of children the classic myths, both southern and northern. “A broad simplicity, so very different from the light gracefulness of the old Greek paganism, distinguishes this Norse system. It is thought, the genuine thought of deep, rude, earnest minds, fairly opened to the things about them, – a face-to-face and heart-to-heart inspection of things, – the first characteristic of all good thought in all times.” wrote Carlyle. Anderson, the author of “Norse Mythology,” wrote: “In the Norse mythology the centralizing idea is its peculiar feature; in it lies its strength and beauty. The one myth and the one divinity is inextricably in communion with the other; and thus also the idea of unity, centralization, is a prominent feature and one of the chief characteristics of the Teutonic nations.” [chương_files]

Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island

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Action & Adventure, Children's Fiction
Chapter: 22 | Listen:

The Bobbsey twins are off to spend a summer full of fun and adventures on Blueberry Island. They will encounter a cave, and gypsies, and other things I won’t tell you about. You can find out by listening to this book! As with many children’s books written during this time in history, there are racial stereotypes that would not pass muster today. To edit them out would be to erase history, so I’m reading the book, as is. There is a “fat black mammy” named Dinah, and gypsies (of undetermined geographical origin) who naturally steal because they don’t know any better. These stereotypes can act as a good springboard for educating your child on how far we have come, and how far we still need to go, to erase racism altogether. – Summary by Nan Dodge [chương_files]

Story of Red Feather

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 12 | Listen: 3

The fierce chieftain Red Feather is leading a raiding party of Sioux across the Montana frontier, and the Clarendon homestead is directly in his path! Melville must escape the siege with his little sister Dot, and gets some unexpected help along the way. (Summary by Mira Williams) [chương_files]

Billy Whiskers’ Travels

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Action & Adventure, Animals & Nature
Chapter: 13 | Listen: 2

Running away from home is always bound to lead to adventures, some surprising and good and some not so pleasant. Follow Billy Whiskers when he encounters fireworks, tigers and dragons! Will this little goat ever get home again? – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]

Kari the Elephant (Version 2)

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Action & Adventure, Animals & Nature
Chapter: 10 | Listen: 2

Kari the Elephant is a 1922 work by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. The book is the first among those written in English by an Indian author in the category of children’s literature. Kari the Elephant is a bildungsroman narrative that unravels the relationship shared by the protagonist boy and Kari the elephant and the adventures the boy, along with Kari and Kope, the pet monkey go through living by the edge of the forest is quite mesmerizing. Their relationship grows stronger with each adventure and their lives defy the boundaries between human and animal society. Set in a colonial Indian village, the treatment of nature and natural life along with the infiltration of capitalist mindset runs as a background to this narrative that eventually endangers this unique relationship the boy and Kari share. (Summary by Mahimaraj) [chương_files]

Double Challenge

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Action & Adventure, Action & Adventure Fiction
Chapter: 12 | Listen: 1

Jim Kjelgaard brings to life another wild adventure when Ted Harkness and his father attempt to open a hunting lodge. Everything changes when Ted’s father is accused of attempted murder and begins his hideout in the woods. Ted works in this exciting outdoor novel to keep the lodge afloat and clear his fathers name before time runs out! – Summary by Siler Weaver [chương_files]

Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 24 | Listen:

The story of the four Ranch Girls is plainly just beginning. Girls so entirely unlike in temperament and ideals, as Jack, Jean, Olive and Frieda, cannot fail to lead lives that will develop in interest. [chương_files]

Certain Personal Matters

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Essays & Short Works
Chapter: 39 | Listen: 3

Although best known for his works of science fiction, social commentary and history, H.G. Wells here gives us humorous and light-hearted pieces on a wide variety of intriguing topics from chess to death. Each essay is a gem of wit and delight. – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]

Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences

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Essays & Short Works, Humorous Fiction, Published 1800 - 1900
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 2

Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells’s first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of twelve conversations between a fictional witty uncle who has returned to London from South Africa with “a certain affluence,” as well as two other conversations (one on aestheticism that takes place in a train, titled “A Misunderstood Artist,” and another on physiognomy, titled “The Man with a Nose”) – Summary by Wikipedia [chương_files]