When They Were Children: Stories of the Childhood of Famous Men and Women
Amy Steedman
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Sketches about the childhood of many famous men and women, written just for children!
Chapters
| About This Book | 2:48 | Read by Keren Smithies |
| Saint Augustine | 7:19 | Read by Keren Smithies |
| S. Louis of France | 11:37 | Read by Anita Hibbard |
| Giotto | 9:08 | Read by Emily Maynard |
| S. Catherine of Siena | 12:38 | Read by De Anna Lee |
| Jeanne D'Arc | 13:00 | Read by Emily Maynard |
| Michael Angelo | 10:35 | Read by Emily Maynard |
| Queen Elizabeth | 15:51 | Read by Seraphina |
| Mary Queen of Scots | 14:24 | Read by Stacey Malcolm |
| Louis XIII | 21:49 | Read by Rita Boutros |
| Sir Isaac Newton | 10:31 | Read by prajak |
| Samuel Johnson | 10:36 | Read by De Anna Lee |
| Frederick the Great | 18:28 | Read by Wayne Cooke |
| Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh | 23:27 | Read by Keren Smithies |
| George Washington | 11:23 | Read by Rita Boutros |
| Goethe | 26:08 | Read by Rita Boutros |
| Mozart | 14:43 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| Horatio Nelson | 15:14 | Read by Rita Boutros |
| Arthur, Duke of Wellington | 7:16 | Read by Weretortoise |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | 14:56 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| Sir Walter Scott | 17:47 | Read by Kazaxat |
| Elizabeth Fry | 10:00 | Read by BookBard |
| George Stephenson | 13:28 | Read by Marie Christian |
| Sir John Franklin | 25:39 | Read by Beau Wood |
| Hans Andersen | 15:48 | Read by Weretortoise |
| Abraham Lincoln | 25:11 | Read by prajak |
| Alfred Tennyson | 9:52 | Read by De Anna Lee |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | 19:38 | Read by Keren Smithies |
| Charles Dickens | 22:37 | Read by Jonathan Jones |
| Robert Browning | 9:07 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| David Livingstone | 17:09 | Read by Ruth P. |
| Richard Wagner | 16:40 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| Jean-Francois Millet | 10:50 | Read by De Anna Lee |
| Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters | 17:28 | Read by Keren Smithies |
| John Ruskin | 13:10 | Read by jenno |
| Queen Victoria | 14:27 | Read by Ruth P. |
| George Eliot | 11:53 | Read by Rita Boutros |
| Florence Nightingale | 10:22 | Read by Keren Smithies |
| Jenny Lind | 15:02 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| Rosa Bonheur | 18:31 | Read by BettyB |
| John Coleridge Patteson | 22:13 | Read by Stephanie Gish |
| Sir John Everett Millais | 14:56 | Read by jenno |
| Louisa Alcott | 17:09 | Read by BettyB |
| Charles George Gordon | 11:53 | Read by Jonathan Jones |
| Thomas Alva Edison | 8:14 | Read by prajak |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 20:58 | Read by Rita Boutros |