When They Were Children: Stories of the Childhood of Famous Men and Women


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Sketches about the childhood of many famous men and women, written just for children! (11 hr 21 min)

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