Children's Fiction

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
When a neighbor brings word that Grandma is sick, Mr. and Mrs. Bassett hurry off to tend to her, leaving their seven children to prepare for…

The Laughing Princess

by Seymour Hamilton Read by Seymour Hamilton 4.4
The Laughing Princess is a collection of 12 interrelated stories told to a brother and sister of that special age at which they had recently…

Christmas Holidays at Merryvale

by Alice Hale Burnett Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.6
“Toad” Brown, his brother, and their friends have a jolly time at the Christmas holidays. They daydream at a toy shop window, chop down a Ch…

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by ashleighjane 4.8
When Mary Lennox, who has been brought up in India in a spoiled manner, is orphaned she has to move to Yorkshire, England, to live with her …

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was written in 1872 and it finds Alice in a land …

Further Chronicles of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
After her famed book "Anne of Green Gables," Lucy Maud Montgomery continued her stories in "Chronicles of Avonlea" foll…

Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers

by John Burroughs Read by Laura Caldwell 4.3
Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers, a collection of essays by American naturalist and essayist, John Burroughs, provides fascinating insight in…

Christmas Every Day

by William Dean Howells Read by David Wales 4.6
Christmas Every Day invites listeners into a whimsical world where the spirit of Christmas is celebrated in five enchanting stories. Narrate…

My School Days

by E. Nesbit Read by Cori Samuel 4.6
A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…

On the Shores of the Great Sea

by M. B. Synge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Book I of the "Story of the World" series. Focuses on the civilizations surrounding the Mediterranean Sea from the time of Abraham…

The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

by Beatrix Potter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Pet…

The Adventures of Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was…

The Pony Rider Boys in Texas

by Frank Gee Patchin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Yee-hawww! The Pony Rider Boys are on the trail again! In the second book of this series, Professor Zepplin has taken the young men to San D…

The Light Princess

by George MacDonald Read by Fox in the Stars 4.5
Plenty of princesses have been cursed by wicked witches, but the curse placed on this princess by her evil aunt is an unusual one: it remove…

Kabumpo in Oz

by Ruth Plumly Thompson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Dear children: Do you like Elephants? Do you believe in Giants? And do you love all the jolly people of the Wonderful Land of Oz? Well then …

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Uncle Remus Returns

by Joel Chandler Harris Read by Phil Chenevert 4.5
Uncle Remus tells these 11 stories but to the son of the original "little boy" who is visiting his grandmother on the plantation. …

Pollyanna

by Eleanor H. Porter Read by Eleanor H. Porter 4.4
In a small town far out West, 11 year old Pollyanna loses her mother then her dad to disease. This book describes how the orphan is sent to …

God's Troubadour

by Sophie Jewett Read by Sean McKinley 4.6
Francis, a young Italian boy, is a merchant's son who is enthralled by the troubadour songs and tales of knights that his father brings back…

An Old-Fashioned Girl

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Country-girl Polly Milton visits her fashionable cousins in the city, who make fun of her old-fashioned values. Will Polly adapt to city lif…

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