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Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess

Northern Cardinal, Male

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Preface

winter wren

Jenny Wren Arrives

The Old Orchard Bully

Jenny Has a Good Word for Some Sparrows

white throated sparrow

Chippy, Sweetvoice and Dotty

Peter Learns Something He Hadn’t Guessed

An Old Friend in a New Home

Camille Pissarro, Le verger (The_Orchard), 1872

The Watchman of the Old Orchard

Old Clothes and Old Houses

Longbill and Teeter

Redwinged blackbird

Redwing and Yellow Wing

Drummers and Carpenters

Some Unlike Relatives

More of the Blackbird Family

Western Meadowlark

Bob White and Carol the Meadow Lark

A Swallow and One Who Isn’t

A Robber in the Old Orchard

More Robbers

Forest, a painting by Paul Cézanne, circa 1902-1904

Some Homes in the Green Forest

A Maker of Thunder and a Friend in Black

A Fisherman Robbed

A Fishing Party

Some Feathered Diggers

Some Big Mouths

Nashville and Tennessee Warblers

The Warblers Arrive

Three Cousins Quite Unlike

Peter Gets a Lame Neck

A New Friend and an Old One

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Peter Sees Rosebreast and Finds Redcoat

The Constant Singers

Jenny Wren’s Cousins

Voices of the Dusk

Peter Saves a Friend and Learns Something

A Royal Dresser and a Late Nester
Mourning Dove

Mourner the Dove and Cuckoo

A Butcher and a Hummer

Male Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

A Stranger and a Dandy

Farewells and Welcomes

Honker and Dippy Arrive

Peter Discovers Two Old Friends
Birdseed mixture in feeder

Some Merry Seed-Eaters

Some More Friends Come with the Snow

Peter Learns Something about Spooky

Queer Feet and a Queerer Bill

More Folks in Red

Hunters in Snow, Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. 105
Hunters in Snow, Pieter Bruegel d. Ä.

Peter Sees Two Terrible Feathered Hunters

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The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess

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Summary: Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals of North America in the form of an entertaining story, including plenty of detail but omitting long scientific names. There is an emphasis on conservation. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden for Librivox)

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Preface

Jenny Wren Gives Peter Rabbit an Idea

Peter and Jumper Go to School

More of Peter’s Long-Legged Cousins

Chatterer and Happy Jack Join

squirrel Tamiasciurus douglasii

The Squirrels of the Trees

Striped Chipmunk and his Cousins

chipmunk Streifenhoernchen

Johnny Chuck Joins the Class

Whistler and Yap Yap

Two Queer Little Haymakers

Porcupine

Prickly Porky and Grubby Gopher

A Fellow with a Thousand Spears

A Lumberman and Engineer

A Worker and a Robber

A Trader and a Handsome Fellow

Opossum Philadelphia

Two Unlike Little Cousins

Danny’s Northern Cousins and Nimbleheels

Three Little Redcoats and Some Others

Mice with Pockets, and Others

Teeny Weeny and his Cousin

Four Busy Little Miners

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Flitter the Bat and his Family

An Independent Family

Digger and his Cousin Glutton

Shadow and his Family

Two Famous Swimmers
BAB Beech Marten photo by Franco Atirador from Wikimedia Commons

Spite the Marten and Pekan the Fisher

red fox Vulpes vulpes

Reddy Fox Joins the School

Old Man Coyote and Howler the Wolf

Coyote

Yowler and his cousin Tufty

Some Big and Little Cat Cousins
Raccoon climbing in tree

Bobby Coon Arrives

Buster Bear Nearly Breaks Up School

Buster Bear’s Big Cousins

Unc’ Billy and Old Mrs. Possum

Lightfoot, Blacktail and Forkhorn

Bugler, Flathorns and Wanderhoof

Thunderfoot, Fleetfoot and Longcoat

Two Wonderful Mountain Climbers

Piggy and Hardshell

The Mammals of the Sea

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A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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a little princess, nice clothes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

a little princess, with friend

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

a little princess, eating

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

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Chapter 8

Chapter 9

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Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

a little princess, cleaning

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

a little princess, final

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When Mother Lets us Cook by Constance Johnson

Baking When Mother Lets us Cook

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Rolling piecrust When Mother Lets us Cook

Part 1

Fill to a level spoon or cup unless you're told to heap it up

Part 2

This rule above all others heed, have ready everything you need

Part 3

Part 4

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Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Anne Anderson The Snow Queen

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Running time: 5 hours, 51 minutes

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The Emperor's New Clothes

01 – The Emperor

02 – The Swineherd

03 – The Real Princess

04 – The Shoes of Fortune

05 – The Fir Tree

06 – The Snow Queen

07 – The Leap Frog

08 – The Elderbush

09 – The Bell

10 – The Old House

11 – The Happy Family

Andersen The Story of a Mother

12 – The Story of a Mother

13 – The False Collar

14 – The Shadow

15 – The Little Match Girl

16 – The Dream of Little Tuk

17 – The Naughty Boy

18 – The Red Shoes

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Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling

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Total running time:? 5 hours, 58 minutes

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01 ? Weland?s Sword

02 ? Young Men at the Manor

03 ? The Knights of the Joyous Venture

04 ? Old Men at Pevensey

05 ? A Centurion of the Thirtieth

06 ? On the Great Wall

07 ? The Winged Hats

08 ? Hal o? the Draft

09 ? Dymchurch Flit

10 ? The Treasure and the Law

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Skip Counting by 2’s


Skip Counting by 5’s

Skip Counting by 10’s

American Coins

Four Seasons

Days of the Week

Months of the Year Song

12 Months in a Year

Alphabet Sounds from Sounds Like Fun!



Opposites are Tricky

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More Goops and How Not to Be Them by Gelett Burgess

Summary: Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one?s child is! This perhaps was even more the case in 1903, when Gelett Burgess produced his second book on the Goops. With entertaining cartoons ? cariacatures of misbehaving children ? he described many different breaches of tact and good manners.

Burgess wrote several books of poetry on the Goops, each poem describing some significant way in which an unthoughtful or unkind child could offend polite society and often offering the hope that the listener would never behave that way. Ahem! Well, perhaps very few people have succeeded in not acting Goop-like at some point in their lives, but read along with Burgess as he attempts to define, in a humorous fashion, exactly what the differences between ?Good? and ?Goop? are!
(Summary by Mark F. Smith for Librivox)

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His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune

Summary: Albert Payson Terhune, perhaps best known for his book Lad, a Dog (later turned into a popular movie), was also a breeder of collies and a journalist. Some of his collie lines survive to this day.

His Dog is a story about Link Ferris who finds an injured dog on his way home one evening. Knowing nothing about dogs, Link nurses the dog back to health and the two form a bond such as only can be formed between human and canine. Unable to locate the collie?s owner, Link christens his dog ?Chum? who becomes invaluable in tending to the daily needs of his meager farm.

Unknown to Ferris however, Chum?s original owners have been looking for their lost collie, and the story finds Link torn between that which he knows is morally right and his love for what he believes has become his dog.
(Summary by Roger Melin for Librivox)

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Total running time: 3 hours, 12 minutes

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Chapter 1: The Derelict


Chapter 2: The Battle

Chapter 3: The Ordeal

Chapter 4: The Choice

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Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott

Flower Fables is Louisa May Alcott?s first book, penned at 16 for Ralph Waldo Emerson?s daughter, Ellen.(Summary by Clarica for Librivox)

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Total running time:? 3 hours, 29 minutes

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Introduction

1–The Frost King

2–Eva’s Visit to Fairy Land

3–The Flower’s Lesson

4–Lily-Bell and Thistledown

05–Little Bud

06–Clover Blossom

07–Little Annie’s Dream

08–Ripple the Water Spirit

09–Fairy Song

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Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter

Peter's Jacket

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Running time 3 hours, 32 minutes

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01 – The Tale of Peter Rabbit

02 – The Tailor of Gloucester

03 – The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

04 – The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

Beatrix Potter Benjamin Bunny

05 – The Tale of Two Bad Mice

06 – The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle

07 – The Pie and the Patty-Pan

08 – The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher

09 – The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit

10 – The Story of Miss Moppet

Beatrix Potter age 15

11 – The Tale of Tom Kitten

12 – The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

13 – The Roly-Poly Pudding

14 – The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies

15 – The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse

16 – The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

17 – The Tale of Mr Tod

The Tale of Mr. Tod

18 – The Tale of Pigling Bland

19 – Ginger and Pickles

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Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible volume 3

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01 – How Saul Saved the Eyes of the Men of Jabesh

Battle with the Philistines at Mount Gilboa
02 – The Brave Young Prince

03 – Saul’s Great Sin and His Great Loss

The Shepherd David by Elizabeth Jane Gardner

04 – The Shepherd Boy of Bethlehem
05 – The Shepherd Boy’s Fight with the Giant
David Slaying Goliath by Peter Paul Rubens

06 – The Little Boy Looking for the Arrows
Saul and David by Guercino

07 – Where David Found the Giant’s Sword

08 – How David Spared Sauls Life

09 – The Last Days of King Saul

10 – The Shepherd Boy Becomes a King
Landscape with David and the Three Heroes by Claude Lorrain

11 – The Sound in the Treetops

12 – The Cripple at the King’s Table

13 – The Cripple at the King’s Table

14 – David’s Handsome Son and How He Stole the Kingdom

15 – Absalom in the Wood; David on the Throne

16 – The Angel with the Drawn Sword on Mount Moriah
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17 – Solomon on David’s Throne

18 – The Wise Young King

19 – The House of God on Mount Moriah

20 – The Last Days of Solomons Reign