Listen to and read a brief kids’ version of Saint George and the Dragon here.
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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
This recording of the Hobbit was made for educational purposes to assist ESL learners. Downloadable files are NOT available of this material, it is streaming only. Click on the link for the chapter you want to stream and the text will also appear, allowing you to follow along in the text while you listen.
True Stories of Wonderful Deeds by anonymous
Summary:?These one page Stories of (mostly) Wonderful Deeds were written for Little Folk to teach them about famous incidents in their history. Bonnie Prince Charlie, Nelson and Hardy, Bruce and the Spider, David Livingston, Canute, Sir Philip Sydney, and Elizabeth and Raleigh are just some of the well known people and incidents covered in short stories. (Summary by Phil Chenevert for Librivox)
05 – Queen Victoria and her Soldiers
10 – The Charge of the Light Brigade
11 – The Coronation of King Edward VII
16 – King Alfred and the Cakes
27 – Queen Margaret and the Robbers
33 – Cromwell and his Ironsides
History Plays for the Grammar Grades by Mary Ella Lyng
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Run time: 1:32
Imagine That: Ancient Ruins
Richard Scary on Ancient Ruins.
Little Susy Stories by Elizabeth Prentiss
Little Susy’s Six Birthdays e-text or Kindle version
Little Susy’s Six Birthdays part 1 (run time: 39 minutes)
Little Susy’s Six Birthdays part 2 (run time: 46 minutes)
Little Susy’s Six Teachers e-text
Little Susy’s Six Teachers (run time: 53 minutes)
King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
Summary: When three brothers mortally offend Mr. Southwest Wind, Esquire, their farm is laid waste and their riches lost. Desperate for money, the brothers become goldsmiths and melt down their remaining treasures . . . only to find that the spirit of the King of the Golden River resides with a molded tankard, and knows the secret of the riches of the Golden River. (Introduction by Xenutia for Librivox)
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Running time: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Franz Schubert: The Story of the Boy who wrote Beautiful Songs
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Franz Schubert: The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Beautiful Songs (left click to play or right click “save as” to download)
This story is an excerpt from the book Stories of Great Composers for Children by Thomas Tapper. Download the entire book as a zipped file OR Subscribe to the entire book in iTunes
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you Hear?
Johnny Appleseed
This Scholastic video tells the story of Johnny Appleseed, from the book by Reeve Lindbergh.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
Redwall television series, based on the book by Brian Jacques
Episode One: Cluny the Scourge (part 1 section 1)
(Episode 1, Part 1 section 2)
(Episode 1, Part 1 section 3)
Episode Two: Cluny the Scourage (part 2, section 1)
(Episode 2, part 2 section 2)
(Episode 2, part 2, section 3)
Episode Three: Treachery, part 1
Episode Three: Treachery, part 2
Episode Three: Treachery, part 3
Franz Joseph Haydn: The Story of the Choir Boy who became a Great Composer
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The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang?s Fairy Books or Andrew Lang?s ?Coloured? Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories.? (summary from wikipedia)
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Total running time:? 11 hours, 24 minutes
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01 ? The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership
04 ? Story of the Emperor?s New Clothes
07 ? The Dragon and His Grandmother
12 ? The Giants and the Herd-boy
15 ? How Six Men travelled through the Wide World
19 ? Alphege, or the Green Monkey
22 ? The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise
27 ? The Witch and Her Servants
29 ? The Flower Queen?s Daughter
31 ? The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son
33 ? The Death of the Sun-hero
36 ? The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus
39 ? How To Tell A True Princess
Mozart: The Story of a Little Boy and his Sister Who Gave Concerts by Thomas Tapper
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Mozart: The Story of a Little Boy and his Sister who gave Concerts (left click to play or right click “save as” to download)
This story is an excerpt from the book Stories of Great Composers for Children by Thomas Tapper. Download the entire book as a zipped file OR Subscribe to the entire book in iTunes
Listen to Mozart’s music
The following several selections are recorded by Jon Sayles on classical guitar.? For more of his beautiful recordings of both classical and early/renaissance music,? visit his website.
The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
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Total running time: 12 hours, 22 minutes
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01 ? The Twelve Dancing Princesses
04 ? The Death of Koshchei the Deathless
05 ? The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen
15 ? The Three Princesses of Whiteland
21 ? The True History of Little Goldenhood
Handel: The Story of a Little Boy who practiced in an Attic by Thomas Tapper
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The Golden Goose Book by Leslie Brooke
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Total running time: 32 minutes
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My Very First Little German Book
An adorable picture book with 29 little lessons in German. Learn many simple and useful phrases, such as “How big the sea is!” and “Have you ever been to the farm?” Summary by Kara for Librivox
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