Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan 1915 cover 2

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Running time: 5 hours, 4 minutes

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This unabridged version of Peter Pan is darker than the well-known Disney version, and is more appropriate for older children than younger ones.

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Peter Pan cover 1911

Peter Breaks Through

The Shadow

Come Away! Come Away!

The FlightThe Island Come True

Peter Pan pipes by Francis Donkin, 1911

The Little House

The Home Under the Ground

The Mermaids Lagoon

The Neverbird

The Happy Home

Peter Pan Wendy Darling

Wendy’s Story

The Children are Carried Off

Do You Believe in Fairies

The Pirate Ship

Captain Hook by F. D. Bedford

Hook or Me This Time

The Return Home

When Wendy Grew Up

Peter the Great by Jacob Abbott

Peter the Great Battle of Poltava

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Peter the Great portrait

00 – Preface

01 – The Princess Sophia

02 – The Princess’s Downfall

Sophia Alekseyevna hermitage

03 – The Childhood and Youth of Peter

04 – Le Fort and Menzikoff

05 – Commencement Of The Reign

06 – The Emperor’s Tour 1697

Arrival of the tsars Peter I and Ivan V

07 – Conclusion of the Tour

08 – The Rebellion

09 – Reforms

10 – The Battle of Narva

St. Petersburg Cathedral, image copyrighted by Dionysus, licensed under GNU Free Documentation license

11 – The Building of St. Petersburg

12 – The Revolt of Mazeppa

Poltava Battle, Mikhail Lomonosov, 1717

13 – The Battle of Pultowa

14 – The Empress Catharine

15 – The Prince Alexis

16 – The Flight of Alexis

Peter the Great Interrogating the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof by Nikolai Ge

17 – The Trial

18 – The Condemnation and Death of Alexis

19 – Conclusion

Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

Lady at the Tea Table by Mary Cassat
Lady at the Tea Table by Mary Cassatt

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Total running time: 6 hours, 55 minutes

Renoir Girl with Flowers

Chapter 1  Miss Polly

Chapter 2  The Coming of Tom and Nancy

Chapter 3  The Coming of Pollyanna

PA Balkonzimmer by Adolph von Menzel, The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by the Yorck project.  The compilation copyright is held by the Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation license.
Balcony Room by Adolph von Menzel

Chapter 4  The Little Attic Room

Chapter 5  The Game

Chapter 6  A Question of Duty

Chapter 7  Pollyanna and Punishments

Chapter 8  Pollyanna Pays a Visit

Chapter 9  Which Tells of the Man

Chapter 10 Surprise for Mrs. Snow

Chapter 11  Introducing Jimmy

Ladies' Aid
Ladies' Aid

Chapter 12  Before the Ladies’ Aid

Chapter 13  In Pendleton Woods

Chapter 14  Just a Matter of Jelly

Chapter 15  Dr. Chilton

Red Rose

Chapter 16  A Red Rose and a Lace Shawl

Chapter 17  “Just like a book”

Chapter 18  Prisms

Chapter 19  Which is Somewhat Surprising

Chapter 20  Which is More Surprising

Chapter 21  A Question is Answered

Chapter 22  Sermons and Woodboxes

1913 automobile
1913 automobile

Chapter 23  An Accident

Chapter 24  John Pendleton

Chapter 25  A Waiting Game

Chapter 26  A Door Ajar

Chapter 27  Two Visits

Chapter 28  The Game and its Players

PA Jan Vermeer, Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window
Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window by Jan Vermeer

Chapter 29  Through an Open Window

Chapter 30  Jimmy Takes the Helm

Chapter 31  A New Uncle

Chapter 32  Which is a Letter from Pollyanna

Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle

Monastery, The Green Cloister in Santa Maria Novella, Italy by Frank Fox

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Castle, burned out, CastleNiesytno3, photo released into the public domain by copyright holder Andre Offringa

00 – Forward

01 – The Dragon’s House

02 – How the Baron Went Forth to Shear
03 – How the Baron Came Home Shorn

04 – The White Cross on the Hill

White Cross, Crakehall, probably medieval, photo by Oliver Dixon, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 license

05 – How Otto Dwelt at St. Michaelsburg

06 – How Otto Lived in the Dragon’s House

07 – The Red Cock Crows on Drachenhausen

08 – In the House of the Dragon Scorner

09 – How One-Eyed Hans Came to Trutz-Drachen

10 – How Hans Brought Terror to the Kitchen

Monastery, Italy by Frank Fox

11 – How Otto was Saved

12 – A Ride for Life

13 – How Baron Conrad Held the Bridge

14 – How Otto Saw the Great Emperor


Thanksgiving Proclamations

Turkey Truthahn by Ustad Mansur, 1612

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Free Audio.org has provided 3 historic Thanksgiving Proclamations for download or streaming.

Click here to listen to William Bradford’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, and Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation.

You can find more podcasts like these at Free Audio.

Georg Friedrich Handel

Georg Friedrich Handel, by Balthasar Denner, public domain image

Classics for Kids has many excellent podcasts for children about composers.  Here are some links to their site:

You can read a short biography of Handel here. Click “hear the music” to hear a selection from Handel.  And here are some podcasts about Handel.

Click here to listen to all of their podcasts about Handel, and to view activity sheets and brief quizzes.
Titles include:

About George Frederick Handel

The Story of the Water Music

Other Water Music

Music By Royalty and Nobility

For more great podcasts and worksheets about other composers, go to Classics for Kids.

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Click here to see a selection of downloadable materials from CurrClick which could be used in a study of composers. This link will also take you away from My Audio School.

Adventures in Odyssey historical radio drama

Independence Day Celebration in Centre Square, Philadelphia by John Lewis Krimmel

Focus on the Family Adventures in Odyssey

Focus on the Family has made several episodes of Adventures in Odyssey available for free streaming or download.  Click the above link, which will take you to the Focus on the Family media page.  You’ll see a gray tool bar underneath the media player; click Sort By Shows.  Then look through the list going down the left hand side and click Adventures in Odyssey.  Select the audio you would like to hear.

I found several historical episodes, but their titles are being regularly changed and updated, so check their site regularly if you are an Adventures in Odyssey fan!

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The Legend of Squanto: Focus on the Family Radio Theater broadcast

Squanto teaching

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To listen to the radio broadcast of  Focus on the Family: The Legend of Squanto, part one, click here.

To listen to the radio broadcast of Focus on the Family: The Legend of Squanto, part two, click here.

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Lewis and Clark: The Great Journey West video trailer and resources

National Geographic has released an excellent movie about Lewis and Clark, titled The Great Journey West. To watch the movie trailer, click the link, and look in the left hand sidebar for the words “Preview the Trailer”.

On their site you can view a preview of the movie, find out where to see the movie, download lesson plans, view the Family Activity Guide, and more.

You may also enjoy  National Geographic’s Go West page for interactive games about the Lewis and Clark expedition.

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Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark by William Lighton

View of Chimney Rock Ogalillalh Sioux Village in Foreground

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Lewis and Clark mural by Frank H. Schwarz

01 – Characteristics

02 – The Expedition

03 – Terms of the Commission

04 – The Start

Lewis and Clark expedition

05 – With the Sioux

06 – To the Falls of the Missouri

07 – Over the Continental Divide

Clark's signature written on July 25, 1806 on what is now called Pompey's Pillar National Monument, Montana

08 – The Last Stage of the Westward Journey

09 – Winter on the Coast

10 – Homeward: In the Mountains

11 – Recrossing the Divide

12 – Home

13 – After Life