Jack & the Beanstalk Logan Marshal Free Childrens' AudioBooks Public Domain Performances.

jack in the beanstalk by logan marshall this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by chad horner jack was an idol lazy boy who would do no work to support his widowed mother and at last they both came to such poverty that the poor woman had to sell her car to buy food to keep them from starving she sent jack to market with the kai telling him to be sure and sell it for a good price as jack was going along the road to market he met a butcher the butcher offered to buy the car in exchange for a hat full of coloured beans jack thought the beans looked very pretty and he was glad to be saved the long hot walk to market so he struck the bargain on the spot and went back to his mother with the beans while the butcher went off with the guy but the poor widow was very disappointed she scolded her son for an idle lazy good for nothing boy and flung the beans out of the window in a passion now the beans were magic beans and the next morning when jack awoke he found some of them had taken root in the night and had grown so tall that they reached right up into the sky jack was full of wonder and curiosity and being fond of adventure and excitement he set out at once to climb the beanstalk to see what was up at the top of it and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed until at last he climbed right up to the very tip top of the beanstalk then he found himself standing in a strange country in the distance he could see a big castle and as he was hot and tired with his long climb he thought he would go and ask for something to eat and drink he had not gone very far before he met a fairy he told him that the castle belonged to a wicked ogre who had killed and eaten a great number of people it was he who killed your father she said and it is your duty to do your utmost to destroy the wicked monster go now and see what you can do if you can carry off any of his treasures you are at liberty to do so for none of them really belongs to him he has taken them all by force from the people whom he robbed and killed jack was delighted at the idea of this adventure and set off in high spirits towards the castle the castle was farther off than he had thought and by the time he reached the gates it was so late that he made up his mind to ask for a night's lodging there was a woman standing in the doorway but when jack made his request she was very frightened and said indeed i dare not take you in and give you food on lodging my husband is a nugger who lives on human flesh if he were to find you here he would think nothing of eating you up in three mouthfuls i advise you to go away at once before he comes home but when she saw how tired and hungry jack really was she took him into the house and gave him plenty to eat and drink while jack was eating his food in the kitchen there came a loud knocking out the door the ogre's wife and a great flurry hid jack in the oven and then hurried to let her husband in jack peep through the oven door and saw a terrible looking ogre who came stomping into the kitchen and said in a voice like thunder wife i smell fresh meat it is only the people you are fattening in the dungeon said the wife so the ogre sat down and ate his supper after supper he commanded his wife to bring him his money bags he then began to count his money thousands and thousands of pieces of gold and silver jack wished he could take some of this money home to his mother and presently when the ogre fell asleep he crept out of his hiding place and hoisting the bags upon his shoulder stepped quietly away with them the ogre was snoring so loudly that it sounded like the wind and the chimney on a stormy night so he never heard the little noise jack made a jack got safely away and escaped down...

Jack & the Beanstalk Logan Marshal Free Childrens' AudioBooks Public Domain Performances.

jack in the beanstalk by logan marshall this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by chad horner jack was an idol lazy boy who would do no work to support his widowed mother and at last they both came to such poverty that the poor woman had to sell her car to buy food to keep them from starving she sent jack to market with the kai telling him to be sure and sell it for a good price as jack was going along the road to market he met a butcher the butcher offered to buy the car in exchange for a hat full of coloured beans jack thought the beans looked very pretty and he was glad to be saved the long hot walk to market so he struck the bargain on the spot and went back to his mother with the beans while the butcher went off with the guy but the poor widow was very disappointed she scolded her son for an idle lazy good for nothing boy and flung the beans out of the window in a passion now the beans were magic beans and the next morning when jack awoke he found some of them had taken root in the night and had grown so tall that they reached right up into the sky jack was full of wonder and curiosity and being fond of adventure and excitement he set out at once to climb the beanstalk to see what was up at the top of it and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed until at last he climbed right up to the very tip top of the beanstalk then he found himself standing in a strange country in the distance he could see a big castle and as he was hot and tired with his long climb he thought he would go and ask for something to eat and drink he had not gone very far before he met a fairy he told him that the castle belonged to a wicked ogre who had killed and eaten a great number of people it was he who killed your father she said and it is your duty to do your utmost to destroy the wicked monster go now and see what you can do if you can carry off any of his treasures you are at liberty to do so for none of them really belongs to him he has taken them all by force from the people whom he robbed and killed jack was delighted at the idea of this adventure and set off in high spirits towards the castle the castle was farther off than he had thought and by the time he reached the gates it was so late that he made up his mind to ask for a night's lodging there was a woman standing in the doorway but when jack made his request she was very frightened and said indeed i dare not take you in and give you food on lodging my husband is a nugger who lives on human flesh if he were to find you here he would think nothing of eating you up in three mouthfuls i advise you to go away at once before he comes home but when she saw how tired and hungry jack really was she took him into the house and gave him plenty to eat and drink while jack was eating his food in the kitchen there came a loud knocking out the door the ogre's wife and a great flurry hid jack in the oven and then hurried to let her husband in jack peep through the oven door and saw a terrible looking ogre who came stomping into the kitchen and said in a voice like thunder wife i smell fresh meat it is only the people you are fattening in the dungeon said the wife so the ogre sat down and ate his supper after supper he commanded his wife to bring him his money bags he then began to count his money thousands and thousands of pieces of gold and silver jack wished he could take some of this money home to his mother and presently when the ogre fell asleep he crept out of his hiding place and hoisting the bags upon his shoulder stepped quietly away with them the ogre was snoring so loudly that it sounded like the wind and the chimney on a stormy night so he never heard the little noise jack made a jack got safely away and escaped down...

Goody Two Shoes English Fairy Story Free Kids' Audio Library Bedtime Stories Tale Tellers.

goody two shoes by anonymous this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please contact librivox.org goody two-shoes farmer meanwhile was at one time a very rich man he owned large fields and had fine flocks of sheep and plenty of money but all at once his good fortune seemed to desert him year after year his crops failed his sheep died off and he was obliged to borrow money to pay his rent and the wages of those who worked on the farm at last he had to sell his farm but even this did not bring him in money enough to pay his debts and he was worse off than ever

among those who had lent money to farmer meanwhile were sir thomas greit and a farmer named grass ball sir thomas was a very rich man indeed and farmer grass paul had more money than he could possibly use but they were both very greedy and curvaceous and particularly hard on those who owed them anything farmer graspall abused farmer meanwhile and called him all sorts of dreadful names but the rich sir thomas gripe was more cruel still and wanted the poor debtor shut up in jail so poor farmer meanwhile had to hasten from the place where he had lived for so many years in order to get out of the way of these greedy men he went to the next village taking his wife and his two little children with him but though he was free from gripe and grasp all he was not free from trouble and care he soon fell ill and when he found himself unable to get food and clothes for his family he grew worse and worse and soon died his wife could not bear the loss of her husband whom she loved so dearly and in a few days she was dead the two orphaned children seem to be left entirely alone in the world with no one to look after them or care for them but their heavenly father they trotted around hand in hand and the poorer they became the more they clung to each other poor ragged and hungry enough they were tommy had two shoes but margery went barefoot they had nothing to eat but the berries that grew in the woods and the scraps they could get from the poor people in the village and at night they slept in barns or under haystacks their rich relations were too proud to notice them but mr smith the clergyman of the village where the children were born was not that sort of man a rich relation came to visit him a kind-hearted gentleman and the clergyman told him all about tommy and marjorie the kind gentleman pitied them and ordered margaery a pair of shoes and gave mr smith money to buy her some clothes which she needed sadly as for tommy he said he would take him off to see with him and make him a sailor after a few days the gentleman said he must go to london and would take tommy with him and sad was the parting between the two children margery was very lonely indeed without her brother and might have cried herself sick but for the new shoes that were brought home to her they turned her thoughts from her grief and as soon as she'd put them on she ran into mrs smith and cried out two shoes mom two shoes these words she repeated to everyone she met and thus it was she got the name of goody two shoes little marjorie had seen how good and wise mr smith was and thought it was because of his great learning and she wanted above all things to learn to read at last she made up her mind to ask mr smith to teach her when he had a moment to spare he readily agreed to do this and marjorie read to him an hour every day and spent much time with her books then she laid out a plan for teaching others more ignorant than herself she cut out of thin pieces of wood 10 sets of large and small letters of the alphabet and carried these with her when she went from house to house when she came to billy wilson's she threw down the letters all in a heap and billy picked them out and sorted them in lines thus capital a over a capital b over b...

Goody Two Shoes English Fairy Story Free Kids' Audio Library Bedtime Stories Tale Tellers.

goody two shoes by anonymous this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please contact librivox.org goody two-shoes farmer meanwhile was at one time a very rich man he owned large fields and had fine flocks of sheep and plenty of money but all at once his good fortune seemed to desert him year after year his crops failed his sheep died off and he was obliged to borrow money to pay his rent and the wages of those who worked on the farm at last he had to sell his farm but even this did not bring him in money enough to pay his debts and he was worse off than ever

among those who had lent money to farmer meanwhile were sir thomas greit and a farmer named grass ball sir thomas was a very rich man indeed and farmer grass paul had more money than he could possibly use but they were both very greedy and curvaceous and particularly hard on those who owed them anything farmer graspall abused farmer meanwhile and called him all sorts of dreadful names but the rich sir thomas gripe was more cruel still and wanted the poor debtor shut up in jail so poor farmer meanwhile had to hasten from the place where he had lived for so many years in order to get out of the way of these greedy men he went to the next village taking his wife and his two little children with him but though he was free from gripe and grasp all he was not free from trouble and care he soon fell ill and when he found himself unable to get food and clothes for his family he grew worse and worse and soon died his wife could not bear the loss of her husband whom she loved so dearly and in a few days she was dead the two orphaned children seem to be left entirely alone in the world with no one to look after them or care for them but their heavenly father they trotted around hand in hand and the poorer they became the more they clung to each other poor ragged and hungry enough they were tommy had two shoes but margery went barefoot they had nothing to eat but the berries that grew in the woods and the scraps they could get from the poor people in the village and at night they slept in barns or under haystacks their rich relations were too proud to notice them but mr smith the clergyman of the village where the children were born was not that sort of man a rich relation came to visit him a kind-hearted gentleman and the clergyman told him all about tommy and marjorie the kind gentleman pitied them and ordered margaery a pair of shoes and gave mr smith money to buy her some clothes which she needed sadly as for tommy he said he would take him off to see with him and make him a sailor after a few days the gentleman said he must go to london and would take tommy with him and sad was the parting between the two children margery was very lonely indeed without her brother and might have cried herself sick but for the new shoes that were brought home to her they turned her thoughts from her grief and as soon as she'd put them on she ran into mrs smith and cried out two shoes mom two shoes these words she repeated to everyone she met and thus it was she got the name of goody two shoes little marjorie had seen how good and wise mr smith was and thought it was because of his great learning and she wanted above all things to learn to read at last she made up her mind to ask mr smith to teach her when he had a moment to spare he readily agreed to do this and marjorie read to him an hour every day and spent much time with her books then she laid out a plan for teaching others more ignorant than herself she cut out of thin pieces of wood 10 sets of large and small letters of the alphabet and carried these with her when she went from house to house when she came to billy wilson's she threw down the letters all in a heap and billy picked them out and sorted them in lines thus capital a over a capital b over b...

Mouse Bird Sausage Brothers Grimm Free Kids' Audiobooks Public Domain Library

Mouse Bird Sausage Brothers Grimm Free Kids' Audiobooks Public Domain Library

The Capture of Father Time Free Kids' Audiobooks Public Domain Download.

the capture of father time by l frank baum this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org jim was a son of a cowboy and lived on the broad plains of arizona his father had trained him to lasso a bronco or a young bull with perfect accuracy and had jim possess the strength to back up his skill he would have been as good a cowboy as any in all arizona when he was 12 years old he made his first visit to the east where uncle charles his father's brother lived of course jim took his lasso with him for he was proud of his skill in casting it and he wanted to show his cousins what a cowboy could do at first the city boys and girls were much interested in watching jim lasso post and fence pickets but soon they tired of it and even jim decided it was not the right sort of sport for cities but one day the butcher asked jim to ride one of his horses into the country to a pasture that had been engaged and jim eagerly consented he had been longing for a horseback ride and to make it seem like old times he took his lasso with him he rode through the streets to merely enough but on reaching the open country roads his spirit broke forth into wild jubilation and urging the butcher's horse to full gallop he dashed away in true cowboy fashion then he still wanted more liberty and letting down the bars that led into a big field he began riding over the meadow and throwing his lasso at imaginary cattle while he yelled and whooped to his heart's content suddenly on making a long cast with his lasso the loop caught upon something and rested about three feet from the ground while the rope drew taut and nearly pulled jim from his horse this was unexpected more than that it was wonderful for the field seemed bare of even a stump jim's eyes grew big with amazement but he knew he had caught something when a voice cried out here let go let go i say can't you see what you've done no jim couldn't see nor did he intend to let go until he found out what was holding the loop of the lasso so he resorted to an old trick his father had taught him and putting the butcher's horse to a run began riding in a circle around the spot where his lasso had caught as he thus drew near and near his quarry he saw the rope coil up yet it looked to be coiling over nothing but air one end of the lasso was made fast to a ring in the saddle and when the rope was almost wound up and the horse began to pull away and snort with beer jim dismounted holding the reins of the bridle in one hand he followed the rope and an instant later saw an old man caught fast in the coils of the lasso his head was bald and uncovered but long white whiskers grew down to his waist about his body was thrown a loose robe of fine white linen in one hand he bore a great scythe and beneath the other arm he carried an hourglass while jim gazed wonderingly upon him this venerable old man spoke in an angry voice now then get that rope off as fast as you can you've brought everything on earth to a standstill by your foolishness well what are you staring at don't you know who i am no said jim stupidly well i'm time father time now make haste and set me free if you want the world to run properly how did i happen to catch you asked jim without making a move to release his captive i don't know i've never been caught before growled father time but i suppose it was because you were foolishly throwing your lasso at nothing i didn't see you said jim of course you didn't i'm invisible to the eyes of human beings unless they get within three feet of me and i take care to keep more than that distance away from them that's why i was crossing this field where i supposed no one would be and i should have been perfectly safe had it not been for your beastly lasso now then he added grassley are you going to get that rope off why should i ask jim...

The Capture of Father Time Free Kids' Audiobooks Public Domain Download.

the capture of father time by l frank baum this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org jim was a son of a cowboy and lived on the broad plains of arizona his father had trained him to lasso a bronco or a young bull with perfect accuracy and had jim possess the strength to back up his skill he would have been as good a cowboy as any in all arizona when he was 12 years old he made his first visit to the east where uncle charles his father's brother lived of course jim took his lasso with him for he was proud of his skill in casting it and he wanted to show his cousins what a cowboy could do at first the city boys and girls were much interested in watching jim lasso post and fence pickets but soon they tired of it and even jim decided it was not the right sort of sport for cities but one day the butcher asked jim to ride one of his horses into the country to a pasture that had been engaged and jim eagerly consented he had been longing for a horseback ride and to make it seem like old times he took his lasso with him he rode through the streets to merely enough but on reaching the open country roads his spirit broke forth into wild jubilation and urging the butcher's horse to full gallop he dashed away in true cowboy fashion then he still wanted more liberty and letting down the bars that led into a big field he began riding over the meadow and throwing his lasso at imaginary cattle while he yelled and whooped to his heart's content suddenly on making a long cast with his lasso the loop caught upon something and rested about three feet from the ground while the rope drew taut and nearly pulled jim from his horse this was unexpected more than that it was wonderful for the field seemed bare of even a stump jim's eyes grew big with amazement but he knew he had caught something when a voice cried out here let go let go i say can't you see what you've done no jim couldn't see nor did he intend to let go until he found out what was holding the loop of the lasso so he resorted to an old trick his father had taught him and putting the butcher's horse to a run began riding in a circle around the spot where his lasso had caught as he thus drew near and near his quarry he saw the rope coil up yet it looked to be coiling over nothing but air one end of the lasso was made fast to a ring in the saddle and when the rope was almost wound up and the horse began to pull away and snort with beer jim dismounted holding the reins of the bridle in one hand he followed the rope and an instant later saw an old man caught fast in the coils of the lasso his head was bald and uncovered but long white whiskers grew down to his waist about his body was thrown a loose robe of fine white linen in one hand he bore a great scythe and beneath the other arm he carried an hourglass while jim gazed wonderingly upon him this venerable old man spoke in an angry voice now then get that rope off as fast as you can you've brought everything on earth to a standstill by your foolishness well what are you staring at don't you know who i am no said jim stupidly well i'm time father time now make haste and set me free if you want the world to run properly how did i happen to catch you asked jim without making a move to release his captive i don't know i've never been caught before growled father time but i suppose it was because you were foolishly throwing your lasso at nothing i didn't see you said jim of course you didn't i'm invisible to the eyes of human beings unless they get within three feet of me and i take care to keep more than that distance away from them that's why i was crossing this field where i supposed no one would be and i should have been perfectly safe had it not been for your beastly lasso now then he added grassley are you going to get that rope off why should i ask jim...

All About the Little Small Red Hen Free Kids' English Audiobooks Public Domain.

chapter 2 of discoverers and explorers this librivox recording is in the public domain discoverers and explorers by edward r shaw chapter 2 marco polo in the middle of the 13th century about 200 years before the time of columbus a boy named marco polo lived in the city of venice marco polo belonged to a rich and noble family and had all the advantages of study that the city afforded he studied at one of the finest schools in the city of venice this city was then famous for its schools and was the seat of culture and learning for the known world when marco polo started for school in the morning he did not step out into a street as you do instead he stepped from his front doorstep into a boat called a gondola for venice is built upon a cluster of small islands and the streets are waterways and are called canals the gondolier as the man who rose the gondola is called took marco wherever he wished to go sometimes as they glided along the gondolier would sing old venetian songs and as marco polo lay back against the soft cushions and listened and looked about him he wondered if anywhere else on earth there was so beautiful a city as venice for the sky was very blue and often its color was reflected in the water the buildings were graceful and beautiful the sun was warm and bright and the air was balmy in this delightful city marco polo lived until he was 17 years of age about this time his father who owned a large commercial house in constantinople told marco that he might go with him on a long journey to eastern countries the boy was very glad to go and set out with his father and his uncle who were anxious to trade and gain more wealth in the east this was in the year 1271 the three polos traveled across persia into china and across the desert of gobi to the northwest where they found the great ruler kublai khan this monarch was a kind-hearted and able man he wanted to help his subjects to become civilized and learned as the europeans were so kublai khan assisted the two elder polos in their business of trading and took marco into his service soon marco learned the languages of asia and then he was sent by the khan on errands of state to different parts of the country he visited all the great cities in china and traveled into the interior of asia to places almost unknown at the present time at length the three polos expressed a desire to return to venice the great khan did not wish to part with them but he at last consented for he found that by going they could do him a service the service required was their escort for a beautiful young princess who was to be taken from p king to tabriz where she was to marry the khan of persia it was difficult to find anyone trustworthy enough to take charge of so important a person on so long and dangerous a journey but kublai khan had faith in the polos they had traveled more than anyone else he knew and were cautious and brave so he gave them permission to return to their home and requested them to take the princess to tabriz on the way it was decided that the journey should be made by sea as the land route was so beset by robbers as to be unsafe besides the polos were fine sailors they started from the eastern coast of china and continued their voyage for three years around the peninsula of cochin china and through the indian ocean to the persian gulf here they went to shore and then proceeded by land across persia to tabriz they left the princes in that city and resumed their journey by way of the bosporus to venice when they reached venice they found that they had been forgotten by their friends they had been away 24 years and in that time everything had changed very much they themselves had grown older and their clothes differed from those worn by the venetians for fashions changed even in the 13th century although not so often as they change at the present time it is no wonder that the polos...

All About the Little Small Red Hen Free Kids' English Audiobooks Public Domain.

chapter 2 of discoverers and explorers this librivox recording is in the public domain discoverers and explorers by edward r shaw chapter 2 marco polo in the middle of the 13th century about 200 years before the time of columbus a boy named marco polo lived in the city of venice marco polo belonged to a rich and noble family and had all the advantages of study that the city afforded he studied at one of the finest schools in the city of venice this city was then famous for its schools and was the seat of culture and learning for the known world when marco polo started for school in the morning he did not step out into a street as you do instead he stepped from his front doorstep into a boat called a gondola for venice is built upon a cluster of small islands and the streets are waterways and are called canals the gondolier as the man who rose the gondola is called took marco wherever he wished to go sometimes as they glided along the gondolier would sing old venetian songs and as marco polo lay back against the soft cushions and listened and looked about him he wondered if anywhere else on earth there was so beautiful a city as venice for the sky was very blue and often its color was reflected in the water the buildings were graceful and beautiful the sun was warm and bright and the air was balmy in this delightful city marco polo lived until he was 17 years of age about this time his father who owned a large commercial house in constantinople told marco that he might go with him on a long journey to eastern countries the boy was very glad to go and set out with his father and his uncle who were anxious to trade and gain more wealth in the east this was in the year 1271 the three polos traveled across persia into china and across the desert of gobi to the northwest where they found the great ruler kublai khan this monarch was a kind-hearted and able man he wanted to help his subjects to become civilized and learned as the europeans were so kublai khan assisted the two elder polos in their business of trading and took marco into his service soon marco learned the languages of asia and then he was sent by the khan on errands of state to different parts of the country he visited all the great cities in china and traveled into the interior of asia to places almost unknown at the present time at length the three polos expressed a desire to return to venice the great khan did not wish to part with them but he at last consented for he found that by going they could do him a service the service required was their escort for a beautiful young princess who was to be taken from p king to tabriz where she was to marry the khan of persia it was difficult to find anyone trustworthy enough to take charge of so important a person on so long and dangerous a journey but kublai khan had faith in the polos they had traveled more than anyone else he knew and were cautious and brave so he gave them permission to return to their home and requested them to take the princess to tabriz on the way it was decided that the journey should be made by sea as the land route was so beset by robbers as to be unsafe besides the polos were fine sailors they started from the eastern coast of china and continued their voyage for three years around the peninsula of cochin china and through the indian ocean to the persian gulf here they went to shore and then proceeded by land across persia to tabriz they left the princes in that city and resumed their journey by way of the bosporus to venice when they reached venice they found that they had been forgotten by their friends they had been away 24 years and in that time everything had changed very much they themselves had grown older and their clothes differed from those worn by the venetians for fashions changed even in the 13th century although not so often as they change at the present time it is no wonder that the polos...