Animals & Nature
The Cow
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Robert Louis Stevenson
LibriVox volunteers bring you fourteen different readings of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Cow, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Co…
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2
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Alfred Russel Wallace
A fascinating and classic Victorian ethnology of SE Asia, first published in 1869. The author was co-discoverer of evolution, together with …
Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 2
Read by David Barnes
John Clare
John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England's greatest nature po…
Half Hours With the Lower Animals
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Charles Holder
This book is devoted to the study of invertebrate animals. While most people associate the word "animal" with fish, amphibians, re…
Little Joe Otter (Version 2)
Read by Jude Somers
Thornton W. Burgess
Little Joe Otter, Mrs. Otter, and the two Otter children go on a traveling adventure where the children learn about trappers, bobcats, and t…
Dot and the Kangaroo
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Ethel C. Pedley
Dot and the Kangaroo, written in 1899, is a children's book by Ethel C. Pedley about a little girl named Dot who gets lost in the Australian…
More Jataka Tales
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Ellen C. Babbitt
The continued success of the "Jataka Tales," as retold and published ten years ago, has led to this second and companion volume. W…
On The Seashore
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R. Cadwallader Smith
This gifted nature writer who is so good at describing animals and their habitat and habits here gives us a look at many of the fascinating …
Six Little Ducklings
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Katharine Pyle
Six little ducklings and their mom live in a hollow tree down by the river. Join them as the grow up by the water and learn more about thems…
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 …
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…
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
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…