George Washington and His Hatchet
Lydia Darragh Saves General Washington
Famous Men of Modern Times: George Washington
Famous Men of Modern Times: Abraham Lincoln
Presidents Day
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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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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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Story of the Boy who Sang in the Streets by Thomas Tapper
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Listen to Bach’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, including several more Bach selections, visit his website.
Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light (from the Christmas Oratorio)
Now Let us to the Bagpipe’s Sound from the Peasant’s Cantata
Goldberg Variations, Number 2,? Number 10, Number 18
Listen to the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 on Classics for Kids
More resources for studying Bach:
For more stories about Bach, including the podcasts “About Johann Sebastian Bach”, “The Sons of Johann Sebastian Bach”, “What’s a Concerto” and “More about the Brandenburg Concertos”, visit Classics for Kids.
Classics for Kids activity sheet about Bach and the Brandenburg Concertos
CurrClick has many resources for the study of Bach and classical music.
Grammar Land by M. L. Nesbitt
Summary: In this charming 1877 book of grammar instruction for children, we are introduced to the nine parts of speech and learn about the rules that govern them in Grammar-Land.
“Judge Grammar is far mightier than any Fairy Queen, for he rules over real kings and queens down here in Matter-of-fact-land. Our kings and queens have all to obey Judge Grammar?s laws, or else they would talk what is called bad grammar; and then, even their own subjects would laugh at them, and would say: ?Poor things!
They are funny fellows, these nine Parts-of-Speech. You will find out by-and-by which you like best amongst them all. There is rich Mr. Noun, and his useful friend Pronoun; little ragged Article, and talkative Adjective; busy Dr. Verb, and Adverb; perky Preposition, convenient Conjunction, and that tiresome Interjection, the oddest of them all.” Summary for Librivox
Total running time:? 2 hours, 46 minutes
04? Serjeant Parsing’s Visit to Schoolroom-shire
06? Mr. Adjective Tried for Stealing
07? The Quarrel Between Mr. Pronoun and Mr. Adjective, and Little Interjection
09? Dr. Verb’s Three Tenses, and Number, and Persons
10? Serjeant Parsing in Schoolroom-Shire Again
14? Prepositions Govern the Objective Case
Our Old Nursery Rhymes by Alfred Moffat
Summary: Our Old Nursery Rhymes (1911) is a book of 30 of folkloric songs arranged by Alfred Moffat and beautifully illustrated by H. Willebeck Le Mair. You and your child can listen and sing along as you read the facsimile edition online from the Children?s Digital Library.
These nursery rhymes were performed by 17 talented university student musicians who are sisters in the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity for Women at California State University-Stanislaus. The project was conceived as an opportunity to offer service to the music-loving community around the world and to children everywhere. [Summary written by Dennis Sayers for Librivox].
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One of the 28th–A Tale of Waterloo
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Total running time: 10 hours, 3 minutes
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A tale of Victorian-style romance, maritime battles and even the penultimate Napoleanic battle – Waterloo. (Introduction by Mike Harris for Librivox)
04 – The Privateer’s Rendezvous
My Doggie and I by R. M. Ballantyne
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Total running time: 4 hours, 25 minutes
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Introduction: This story surrounds a child waif, a young woman, a young gentleman doctor, and an elderly lady. This tale unfolds the story of a bond that brings these unlikely friends together and merges their separate paths of life into one common path. The bond is “Dumps”, or “Pompey”, the “doggie”. With many twists, turns, and uncertainties, the ending may surprise the reader. All’s well that ends well in this doggie “tail”. (Introduction by Allyson Hester for Librivox)
02 Ch 2 – Introduces a New Hero
03 Ch 3 – Treats of an Old Heroine
04 Ch 4- In Which Dumps Finds Another Old Friend
05 Ch 5 – Conspiracy and Villainy, Innocence and Tragedy
06 Ch 6 – Relates a Stirring Innocent.
07 Ch 7 – My Circumstances begin to Brighten.
08 Ch 8 – Little Slidder Resists Temptation Successfully, and I Become Enslaved.
09 Ch 9 – On the Scent, but Puzzled.
10 Ch 10 – A Disappointment, an Accident, and a Perplexing Return.
11 Ch 11 – Relates Generally to the Doings and Sayings of Robin Slidder
12 Ch 12 – Begins with Love, Hope, and Joy, and ends Peculiarly.
The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
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Total running time: 9 hours, 41 minutes
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01 – The Story of the Hero Makoma
03 – Story of the King Who Would See Paradise
04 – How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu
07 – How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon
16 – The Adventures of a Jackal
17 – The Adventures of the Jackal’s Eldest Son
18 – The Adventures of the Younger Son of the Jackal
19 – The Three Treasures of the Giants
24 – The Frog and the Lion Fairy
25 – The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired
29 – Adventures of an Indian Brave
The Tiger of Mysore by G. A. Henty
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Total running time:? 11 hours, 31 minutes
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Summary:? During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, 15 year old Dick Holland and his mother set out from England to find and rescue his father, shipwrecked 6 years earlier, and believed to be held prisoner by the ‘Tiger of Mysore’. (Summary by annise for Librivox)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport
This popular book gives young children an overview of King’s life and work
Our friend, Martin is an old animated video about Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last speech, given the day before he was assassinated
The Complete “I have a Dream” speech, August 28, 1963
excerpt from King’s “I have a Dream” speech
Walter Cronkite reports on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the “CBS Evening News”
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The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson
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The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
Summary: The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, first published in its entirety in 1863. Though some of the author’s opinions are very dated now, the journey of a little chimney-sweep water-baby through rivers and storms, under sea and over iceberg, is still a classic, wonderful children’s adventure.
Summary by Cori Samuel for Librivox. Music from Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture at musopen.com.
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Total running time:Â 7 hours, 6 minutes
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On the Irawaddy: A Story of the First Burmese War by G. A. Henty
Summary: With the exception of the terrible retreat from Afghanistan, none of England’s many little wars have been so fatal–in proportion to the number of those engaged–as our first expedition to Burma. It was undertaken without any due comprehension of the difficulties to be encountered, from the effects of climate and the deficiency of transport; the power, and still more the obstinacy and arrogance of the court of Ava were altogether underrated; and it was considered that our possession of her ports would assuredly bring the enemy, who had wantonly forced the struggle upon us, to submission. Events, however, proved the completeness of the error. The Burman policy of carrying off every boat on the river, laying waste the whole country, and driving away the inhabitants and the herds, maintained our army as prisoners in Rangoon through the first wet season; and caused the loss of half the white officers and men first sent there. The subsequent campaign was no less fatal and, although large reinforcements had been sent, fifty percent of the whole died; so that less than two thousand fighting men remained in the ranks, when the expedition arrived within a short distance of Ava. Not until the last Burmese army had been scattered did the court of Ava submit to the by no means onerous terms we imposed.(from the preface)
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Total running time: 8 hours, 47 minutes
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