Animals & Nature
The Tale of Fatty Coon
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Arthur Scott Bailey
This series of Tuck Me In Tales and Slumber Town Tales of animal stories for children from three to eight years, tells of the adventures of …
Stories of Animal Sagacity
Read by Allyson Hester
William Henry Giles Kingston
300+ short stories of how smart and savvy various individual animals have been seen to be, and in most cases a little moral is drawn from th…
The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit
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Arthur Scott Bailey
From his Tuck-Me-In series, Arthur Scott Bailey wrote many "Tales" books about animals and birds to be read to children for bed-ti…
Apis Mellifica
Read by Marie Daum
C. W. Wolf
Wolf's essay considers the homeopathic medicine Apis Mellifica, or the poison of the honey bee, as a therapeutic agent based on his experien…
The Old Man and the Ass
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Jean de la Fontaine
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Old Man and the Ass by Jean de La Fontaine. (There was no translator acknowledged in the t…
The Jingle Book
Read by Betsie Bush
Carolyn Wells
A collection of silly poetry and limericks for children.
Bee Hunting
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John Ready Lockard
Many books on sports of various kinds have been written, but outside of an occasional article in periodicals devoted to bee literature, but …
Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects
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Edward Saunders
An overview of bees and stinging insects - Summary by Larry Wilson
Little Tales of the Desert
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Ethel Twycross Foster
A six year-old girl named Mary spends Christmas vacation with her parents in the Arizona desert of 1901 or thereabouts. ( Summary by Bellona…
Northern Trails, Book 1
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William J. Long
"In the original preface to "Northern Trails" the author stated that, with the solitary exception of the salmon's life in the…
The Tale of Old Dog Spot
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Arthur Scott Bailey
Another book in the Sleepy Time series of Tuck Me In tales, this time we meet Old Dog Spot, who lives with Johnnie Green on his parents farm…
The Tale of Snowball Lamb
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Arthur Scott Bailey
Another Tuck-Me-In book from Arthur Scott Bailey. This time still in Pleasant Valley, we find ourselves on the Green Farm where Johnnie got…
Northern Trails, Book 2
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William J. Long
The reader who follows these trails will find them leading into a new country, a land of space and silence where it is good to be, away up a…
The Memoirs of a White Elephant
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Judith Gautier
"We are told by writers of antiquity that elephants have written sentences in Greek, and that one of them was even known to speak. Ther…
The Tale of Frisky Squirrel
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Arthur Scott Bailey
Arthur Scott Bailey, a native of the state of Vermont, wrote over forty children's books using a variety of animals, birds and even insects …
The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk
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Arthur Scott Bailey
Arthur Scott Bailey, a native of the state of Vermont, wrote over forty children's books using a variety of animals, birds and even insects …
Flower Stories
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Lenore Elizabeth Mulets
This volume contains stories, poems, and facts about lots of different flowers, intended for teaching children. It is divided into thirteen …
The Adventures of Tommy Postoffice, the True Story of a Cat
Read by Michael Fassio
Gabrielle E. Jackson
Peggy the cat lives in the post office at R., and she's just had a litter of kittens. However, instead of snuggling up with them in the box …
The Wishing-Stone Stories
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Thornton W. Burgess
“Tommy scuffed his bare, brown feet in the grass … A scowl, a deep, dark, heavy scowl, had chased all merriment from his round, freckled fac…
Midnight
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Rutherford G. Montgomery
This is an adventure story about a horse in the wild west. (Summary by Rocky Taylor)