Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling 1 How the Whale Got His Throat Free Kids' Audiobooks

how the whale got his throat this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org this reading by kara shallenberg the just so stories by rudyard kipling how the whale got his throat in the sea once upon a time all my best beloved there was a whale and he ate fishes he ate the starfish and the garfish and the crab and the dab and the place and the base and the skate and his mate and the mackerel and the picariel and the really truly twirly-whorly eel all the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth so till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea and he was a small stoot fish and he swam a little way behind the whale's right ear so as to be out of harm's way then the whale stood up on his tail and said i'm hungry and the small stoot fish said in a small stoop voice noble and generous cetacean have you ever tasted man no said the whale what is it like nice said the small stoot fish nice but nubly then fetch me some said the whale and he made the sea froth up with his tail one at a time is enough said the stood fish if you swim to latitude 50 north longitude 40 west that is magic you will find sitting on a raft in the middle of the sea with nothing on but a pair of blue canvas breeches a pair of suspenders you must not forget the suspenders best beloved and a jackknife one shipwrecked mariner who it is only fair to tell you is a man of infinite resource and sagacity so the whale swam and swam to latitude 50 north longitude 40 west as fast as he could swim and on a raft in the middle of the sea with nothing to wear except a pair of blue canvas breeches a pair of suspenders you must particularly remember the suspenders best beloved and a jackknife he found one single solitary shipwrecked mariner trailing his toes in the water he had his mummy's leave to paddle or else he would never have done it because he was a man of infinite resource and sagacity then the whale opened his mouth back and back and back till it nearly touched his tail and he swallowed the shipwrecked mariner and the raft he was sitting on and his blue canvas breeches and the suspenders which you must not forget and the jackknife he swallowed them all down into his warm dark inside cupboards and then he smacked his lips so and turned round three times on his tail but as soon as the mariner who was a man of infinite resource and sagacity found himself truly inside the whale's warm dark inside cupboards he stumped and he jumped and he thumped and he bumped and he pranced and he danced and he banged and he clanged and he hit and he bit and he leaped and he creeped and he prowled and he howled and he hopped and he dropped and he cried and he sighed and he crawled and he bawled and he stepped and he leapt and he danced hornpipes where he shouldn't and the whale felt most unhappy indeed have you forgotten the suspenders he said to the stutt fish this man is very nubbly and besides he's making me hiccup what shall i do tell him to come out said the stoop fish so the whale called down his own throat to the shipwrecked mariner come out and behave yourself i've got the hiccups nay said the mariner not so but far otherwise take me to my natal shore and the white cliffs of albion and i'll think about it and he began to dance more than ever you had better take him home said the stootfish to the whale i ought to have warned you that he is a man of infinite resource and sagacity so the whale swam and swam and swam with both flippers and his tail as hard as he could for the hiccups and at last he saw the mariner's natal shore and the white cliffs of albion and he rushed halfway up the beach and opened his mouth wide and wide and wide and said change here for winchester asheville nashua keene and stations on the fitchburg road and just as he said fitch the...

Trees Every Child Should Know The Oaks Free Children's Audiobooks Kids' Education Fun Book
section 4 of trees every child should know by julia rogers this librivox recording is in the public domain read by marianne the oak family the 50 kinds of oak trees that are native to america are about evenly divided on the two sides of the rocky mountains no western oaks are found in the eastern states and none of our eastern kinds grows wild on the other side of the mountains the backbone of the continent is a bar that neither group has been able to pass to know 50 different kinds of oaks by sight so as to call each one by its right name is not an easy task and yet it is not so difficult as at first might seem to begin with any tree we meet which bears acorns we at once recognize as an oak by this one sign we are able to set this great family apart from every other tree as soon as they are old enough all oaks bear acorns if a tree which we suspect to be an oak has no acorn to show us on or under the tree a little close looking will usually find some acorn cups still hanging on or lying where they fell upon the ground

the leaves of the oaks are distinctive in general they are all simple and their outline is oval the borders are variously cut by deep or shallow bays between sharp points or rounded finger-like lobes they are leathery in texture compared with the leaves of most trees after a little practice we learned to recognize oak leaves no matter how variously cut their borders may be in spring the flowers of oaks come out with the leaves a fringe of catkins at the base of the new chute is composed of pollen bearing flowers in the angles of the new leaves farther up the stem we shall find the little acorn flowers usually in twos this is the flower arrangement of all the oaks staminate and pistolate flowers on the new shoots separate and very different from each other but always close together and always both kinds on each tree the fringe of catkins falls as soon as the pollen is shed little red forked tongues are thrust out by the pistol at flowers to catch the golden dust when it is flying through the air and thus to set seed all through the summer the little acorns are growing we can find them in their tiny cups in the angles of the leaves in the autumn the acorns are ripe and falling some trees will show acorns of two sizes half grown ones on the new shoots and full-sized ones on the bare twigs just back of the new shoots this peculiarity divides the oak family into two great groups one group is composed of trees which have light colored bark bear crop every year and in winter are bare fruit this is known as the white oak group its leaves have rounded margin lobes which do not end in sharp points as many of the lobes of oak leaves do all of the oaks whose leaves have pointed spiny lobes on their margin belong to the black oak group the bark of these trees is usually dark colored the acorns require two years of growth for this reason there are half-grown acorns on the tree all winter waiting for the second summer to bring them to maturity every autumn the acorns which are ripe are found on the twigs just back of the leafy shoots which grew during the past summer these acorns have completed their second year of growth when we hear anyone speak of annual fruited and biennial fruited oaks we know that the white oak and black oak groups are meant if you see an oak tree whose leaves are cut into sharp pointed lobes you will find acorns of two sizes on its twigs if you look across the fence and see a pale barked oak with finger lobed leaves and not a spiny point on their margins you will know that acorns of but one size will be found fix these three points in mind then study all the oak trees you can find trees of the white oak group have one rounded lobes on their leaf margins two acorns ripe in a single season three pale colored bark trees of the black oak group have one spiny pointed lobes on their leaves two acorns...

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The Nomad of the Nine Lives by Abby Frances Friebe Free Animal Cat Lovers Audiobook
chapter five of the nomad of the nine lives by abby francis freebie this librivox recording is in the public domain you may imagine how fond i became of my rescuer it may seem hard to believe but once she actually patted me on the head and stroked my fur with her gentle hands no one had ever done that before it made me feel like crying such kindness made life worth living and thanks to good care good food and a continued mind i was getting better every day one day i heard her say that i was improving and must have once been a handsome cat i wanted to tell her of my wonderful voice but did not do so and compromised by squaring my shoulders and combing out my whiskers with my claws for i had saved them and felt that they were still a credit to me i think she admired them also hearing occasional barkings i soon found that there were dogs of all descriptions there also but in another room where they could not molest us oh what a beautiful place it seemed after all my wanderings and hardships time went on and from remarks i overheard i knew that i had regained my former excellent appearance people frequently came in and looked at us and occasionally some man or woman would take one of the cats or dogs away never to be seen at the league again one day a motor car stopped at the door and an attractively dressed woman entered and said that she was seeking a good cat to take home she looked carefully at each one of us and my heart almost stopped beating when she paused before my cage and said i like his looks best of all may i have him the kind lady replied well he is such a dear good thing that i hate to part with him but i want to get him in a good home so you may take him along i did not like to leave her but trusted that she knew my welfare best and so putting my mute thanks into my eyes i gave her a long last look and was hurried into the motor car i thought of lord roberts but was even more delighted when we stopped on the very same avenue where i had followed the burglars to my surprise and pleasure i found that it was the very house of my adventure as i recognized the hall and carpets later on i happened to look out one of the dining room windows and if you will believe me there was lord roberts sitting out in the next yard sunning himself as he got up and paced around in a dignified manner i tapped with my paw on the glass but he would not deign to look up the next day i was allowed to go out for a walk and since he was in his yard and our adjoining gate was open i made bold to walk in and attempt to renew our acquaintanceship he proved to be a snob but did not recognize me as his ally friend when in need of course i understood that it was not my place to call first because he was very haunty and showed that he was unwilling to make my acquaintance however i wore a collar which was newer and more expensive than his and he knew that my people belonged to the four hundred so he finally condescended to notice me and asked me a few questions concerning my pedigree i told him that my ancestors came over in the mayflower for was not carver a name of which to be proud he said that he belonged to the english aristocracy but soon discovered that my education was better than his for he had learned his letters only from playing around on the nursery floor and seeing them on blocks his lessons of life had been acquired from a mother goose book when the children babbled hey diddle-diddle the cat and the fiddle the cow jumped over the moon or some other such silly jumble of nonsense he put on a great many errors but knew nothing i had acquired a little style myself and finding he knew so little took the upper hand and patronized him shamefully if he had remembered my picking him out a choice bone from a garbage box and his dignified refusal all would have been lost but he didn't my looks had undergone a great change i was sleek and glossy for one of...

Poems Every Child Should Know Kittle Orphan Annie and More Free Kid's Audiobooks

Poems Every Child Should Know Boy's Song, Buttercups and Daisies Free Kids' Books
poems every child should know edited by mary e burt section 14 read for librivox.org by kara shallenberg this section contains the following poems a boys song buttercups and daisies the rainbow and old ironsides

part two continued

a boy's song a boy's song a boy's song by james hogg 1770-1835 is a sparkling poem very attractive to children

where the pools are bright and deep where the grey trout lies asleep up the river and ore of the lee that's the way for billy and me where the black bird sings the latest where the hawthorne blooms the sweetest where the nestlings chirp and flee that's the way for billy and me where the mowers mow the cleanest where the hay lies thick and greenest there to trace the homeword be that's the way for billy and me where the hazel bank is steepest where the shadow falls the deepest where the clustering nuts fall free that's the way for billy and me why the boys should drive away little sweet maidens from the play or love to banter and fight so well that's the thing i never could tell but this i know i love to play through the meadow among the hay up the water and or the lee that's the way for billy and me

james hogg

buttercups and daisies buttercups and daisies oh the pretty flowers coming air the springtime to tell of sunny hours while the trees are leafless while the fields are bare buttercups and daisies spring up here and there air the snowdrop peepeth air the crocus bold air the early primrose opens its paley gold somewhere on the sunny bank buttercups are bright somewhere among the frozen grass peeps the daisy white little hearty flowers like to children poor playing in their sturdy health by their mother's door purple with the north wind yet alert and bold fearing not and caring not though they be a cold what to them is winter what are stormy showers buttercups and daisies are these human flowers he who gave them hardships and a life of care gave them likewise hearty strength and patient hearts to bear

mary howard

the rainbow triumphal arch that fills the sky when storms prepare to part i ask not proud philosophy to teach me what thou art still seem as to my childhood sight a midway station given for happy spirits to a light betwixt the earth and heaven thomas campbell

old ironsides old ironsides by oliver wendell holmes 1809-1894 is learned readily children are untouched by the commercial spirit which is the reproach of this age ingratitude is the vice of republics and this poem puts to shame the love of money and the spirit of ingratitude that could let a national servant become a wreck

i tear her tattered ensign down long has it waved on high and many an eye has danced to see that banner in the sky beneath it rung the battle shout and burst the cannon's roar the meteor of the ocean air shall sweep the clouds no more her deck once read with hero's blood where knelt the vanquished foe when winds were hurrying or the flood and waves were white below no more shall feel the victors tread or know the conquered knee the harpies of the shore shall pluck the eagle of the sea

oh better that her shattered hulk should sink beneath the wave her thunders shook the mighty deep and there should be her grave nail to the mast her holy flag set every threadbare sail and give her to the god of storms the lightning and the gale

oliver wendell holmes end of section 14 read by kara shallenberg on october 12 2006 in oceanside california

The Children's Bible by Henry A. Sherman 4 Cain and Able Free Kid's Audiobook Spiritual Christian

chapter 4 of the children's bible by henry a sherman this librivox recording is in the public domain

cain and his brother abel

adam named his wife eve because she was the mother of all living beings she had two sons cain and abel abel was a shepherd but cain was a farmer one day cain brought as an offering to jehovah some fruit and grain that he had grown abel too brought some of the best animals of his flock and sacrificed their fat pieces to jehovah jehovah was pleased with abel in his offering but cain and his offering did not please him this made cain very angry and his face showed it so jehovah said to cain why are you angry and why do you scowl if you do what is right and good will not your offering be accepted but if you do wrong sin crouches like a wild beast at the door and the desire to sin will overcome you but you should master it cain said to his brother abel let us go into the field and while they were in the field cain struck his brother abel and killed him when jehovah said to cain where is your brother abel cain answered i do not know am i my brother's keeper jehovah said what have you done hark your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground even now you are condemned by the very ground that has opened to receive your brother's blood from your hand whenever you till the ground it shall no longer yield to you its strength you shall be a [ __ ] and a wanderer on the earth then cain said to jehovah my punishment is more than i can bear see thou has driven me out today from this land and i shall no longer be able to worship them and i shall become a [ __ ] and a wanderer on the earth and whoever finds me will kill me but jehovah said to him if anyone kills you he shall be punished sevenfold so jehovah placed a mark on king to keep anyone who found him from killing him cain went out from jehovah's presence and lived as a wanderer far away from eden end of chapter four

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The Children's Bible by Henry A. Sherman 3 The First Disobedience Free Kid's Audiobook.
chapter 3 of the children's bible by henry a sherman

this librivox recording is in the public domain the first disobedience now the serpent was more deceitful than any other animal that jehovah had made and it said to the woman that god really said you shall not eat from any tree of the garden the woman answered we may eat of the fruit of all the trees of the garden except the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden for god has said you shall not eat from it nor shall you touch it for if you do you shall die then the serpent said to the woman you shall not surely die for god knows that as soon as you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will know what is good and what is evil

when the woman saw that the tree was good for food beautiful to look at and that it would make her wise she took some of its fruit and ate it then she gave some to her husband which was with her and he ate then the eyes of both of them were opened so that they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made turtles for themselves

when they heard the sound of the footsteps of jehovah as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day the man and his wife hid from him among the trees of the garden jehovah called to the man and said to him where are you and he answered i heard the sound of thy footsteps in the garden and i was afraid because i was naked so i hid myself

jehovah said i told you that you were naked have you eaten from the tree from which i forbade you to eat

the man answered the woman whom thou didst give to me she gave me the fruit from the tree and i ate jehovah said to the woman what is this that you have done the woman replied the serpent deceived me and i ate

and jehovah said to the serpent because you have done this you shall be hated more than all the beasts you shall crawl on your belly and eat dust all your life and men and serpents shall always be enemies they shall bruise your head and you shall win them on the heel to the woman he said i will greatly increase your trouble and your pain and you shall be subject to your husband and he shall rule over you but to the man he said because you have listened to your wife and have eaten of the tree from which i forbade you to eat as long as you live you shall earn a living only by hard work by hard work shall you raise food to eat and you shall die and your body shall go back to the ground for from dust you were made and to dust you shall return and jehovah made garments of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them and he sent them out of the garden of eden to till the ground end of chapter three

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New Chronicles of Rebecca (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)
by Kate Douglas Wiggin

Publication date 2021-04-14
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, poetry, Friendship, girl, Rebecca, farm, sunnybrook
LibriVox recording of New Chronicles of Rebecca (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) by Kate Douglas Wiggin.

Journey back to the "brick house" for a further look into the life of young Rebecca Randall during her adventures and scrapes in the small town of Riverboro, Maine. A companion story to Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Cast List:
Narrator: TJ Burns
Rebecca Randall: JayKitty76
Miranda Sawyer: Christine Lehman
Jane Sawyer: Laura Riley
Emma Jane Perkins: Jasmin Salma
Adam Ladd: Will the Ninja
Jeremiah Cobb: Greg Giordano
Sarah Cobb: Devorah Allen
Abijah Flagg: Alan Mapstone
Abner Simpson: Donald Gilmore

Additional characters voiced by ambsweet13, Andrew Gaunce, Andrew James, Arnaldo Machado, B L Newman, Bhavya, Brooke Favorat, Claire Butler, David Lawrence, David Purdy, Diego T., Donald Gilmore, Hanna Ponomarenko, Hannah Mary, Jenn Broda, Julian Pratley, Laura Riley, Lauren-Emma Blake, Lily, Mariah Martin Shein, Matthew Reece, Michele Eaton, Rosebud, Seaquill, TriciaG, and Twinkle

Audio edited by Bhavya, JayKitty76, Mark Nelson, and Michele Eaton

Additional proof-listening by Julian Pratley

first chronicle of new chronicles of rebecca this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org new chronicles of rebecca by kate douglas wigan first chronicle jack-o'-lantern miss miranda sawyer's old-fashioned garden was the pleasantest spot in riverborough on a sunday july morning the rich color of the brick house gleamed and glowed through the shade of the elms and maples luxuriant hop vines clamored up the lightning rods and water spouts hanging their delicate clusters here and there in graceful profusion woodbine transformed the old shed into a house to things of beauty and the flower beds themselves were the prettiest and most fragrant in all the countryside a row of dahlias ran directly around the garden spot dahlias scarlet gold and variegated in the very center was a round plot where the upturned faces of a thousand pansies smiled amid their leaves and in the four corners were triangular blocks of sweet flux over which the butterflies fluttered unceasingly in the spaces between ran a riot of portulaca and nasturtiums while in the more regular shell-bordered beds grew spirea and jilly flowers mignonette marigolds and clove pinks back of the barn and encroaching on the edge of the hayfield was a grove of sweet clover whose white feathery tips fairly bent under the assaults of the bees while banks of aromatic mint and thyme drank in the sunshine and sent it out again into the summer air warm and deliciously odorous the hollyhocks were miss sawyer's pride and they grew in a stately line beneath the four kitchen windows their tapering tips set thickly with gay satin circlets of pink or lavender or crimson they grow something like steeples thought rebecca randall who was weeding in the bed and the flat round flowers are like rosettes but steeples wouldn't be studded with rosettes so if you were writing about them in a composition you'd have to give up one or the other and i think i'll give up the steeples gay little hollyhock lifting your head sweetly rosetted out from your bed

it's a pity the hollyhock isn't really little instead of steepling up to the window top but i can't say gay tall hollyhock i might have it lines to hollyhock in may for then it would be small but oh no i forgot in may it wouldn't be blooming and it's so pretty to say that its head is sweetly rosetted i wish the teacher wasn't away she would like sweetly resided and she would...

Dracula (version 2)
by Bram Stoker

Publication date 2010-06-30
Usage Public DomainCreative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics Librivox, audio, Dracula, drama, vampire

chapter 1 of dracula this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org dracula by bram stoker chapter one read by mb jonathan harker's journal three may be left munich at 8 35 pm on first may arriving in vienna early next morning should have arrived at 6 46 but train was an hour late budapest seems a wonderful place from the glimpse which i got of it from the train and the little i could walk through the streets i feared to go very far from the station as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible the impression i had was that we were leaving the west and entering the east the most western of splendid bridges over the danube which is here of noble width and depth took us among the traditions of turkish rule we left in pretty good time and came after nightfall to klausenburg here i stopped for the night at the hotel royale i had for dinner or rather supper a chicken done up some way with red pepper which was very good but thirsty ma'am get recipe from meena i asked the waiter and he said it was called paprika hendel and that as it was a national dish i should be able to get it anywhere along the carpathians i found my smattering of german very useful here indeed i don't know how i should be able to get on without it having had some time at my disposal when in london i had visited the british museum and made search among the books and maps in the library regarding transylvania it had struck me that some foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with the noblemen of that country i find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country just on the borders of three states transylvania moldavia and bukovina in the midst of the carpathian mountains one of the wildest and least known portions of europe i was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the castle dracula as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own ordnance survey maps but i found that bistritz the post town named by count dracula is a fairly well-known place i shall enter here some of my notes as they may refresh my memory when i talk over my travels with mina in the population of transylvania there are four distinct nationalities saxons in the south and mixed with them the wallocks who are the descendants of the nations magyars in the west and zacchaeus in the east and north i am going among the latter who claim to be descended from attila and the huns this may be so for when the magyars conquered the country in the 11th century they found the huns settled in it i read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the carpathians as if it were the center of some sort of imaginative whirlpool if so my stay may be very interesting mem i must ask the count all about them i did not sleep well though my bed was comfortable enough for i had all sorts of queer dreams there was a dog howling all night under my window which may have had something to do with it or it may have been the paprika for i had to drink up all the water in my carafe and was still thirsty towards morning i slept and was awakened by the continuous knocking at my door so i guess i must have been sleeping soundly then i had for breakfast more paprika and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was mamaliga and eggplant stuffed with forced meat a very excellent dish which they call implitara ma'am get recipe for this also i had to hurry breakfast for the train started a little before eight or rather it ought to have done so for after rushing to the station at 7 30 i had to sit in the carriage for more than an hour before we began to move it seems...