Children's Non-fiction
Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers
Read by Laura Caldwell
John Burroughs
Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers, a collection of essays by American naturalist and essayist, John Burroughs, provides fascinating insight in…
True Stories from History and Biography
Read by Susan Morin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such…
Our Young Folks' Plutarch
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Rosalie Kaufman
Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch, Rosalie…
The Adventures of a Grain of Dust
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Hallam Hawksworth
This charming book for children is full of interesting facts about all sorts of plants, insects, birds and animals and how they all help to …
Indian Boyhood
Read by Carol Pelster
Charles Alexander Eastman
Indian Boyhood is a lively and appealing first-person recounting of the life of a Sioux child in the last days of the tribe's "wild&quo…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 016
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E. Nesbitt and Charles Dickens
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 016: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Historical Tales, Vol III: Spanish American
Read by Kalynda
Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews
Volume III of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This third volume covers …
Boy Scouts Handbook
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Boy Scouts Of America
The Boy Scouts of America was founded over a hundred years ago to serve the young men of the United States of America and give them the same…
Pirates of Panama
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Alexandre Exquemelin
This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaenech…
The Frozen North
Read by Laura Victoria
Edith Horton
The Frozen North offers short sketches of the first men who bravely took great risks to explore the unknown polar regions and unlock the mys…
The Story of Old France
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H. A. Guerber
The aim of this volume is to give a complete graphic account of the main features of the history of France to 1715 A.D., with as much additi…
Philosophical Essays
Read by Landon D. C. Elkind
Bertrand Russell
Six out of seven essays appearing here were reprinted from other publications; indeed, this 1910 collection went out of print, so that two o…
Mighty Animals
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Jennie Irene Mix
A book about dinosaurs written for children. In short, easy to read chapters designed to keep the interest of juvenile readers. (Summary by …
The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh
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Margaret Duncan Kelly
"Relates the story of Raleigh from his boyhood days on the coast of Devonshire, to his exploits in Ireland and his unexpected entry int…
Star Stories for Little Folks
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Gertrude Chandler Warner
Gertrude Chandler Warner, known mainly for her "Boxcar Children" series of mystery books, published this small book of Astronomy, …
True Bear Stories
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Joaquin Miller
Joaquin Miller dedicated this book to "my dear little daughter...for whose pleasure and instruction I have many times dug up the most o…
Knights of Art - Stories of the Italian Painters
Read by Susan Morin
Amy Steedman
A children's version of the Lives of Artists by Vassari with many Illustrations. Of course we won't be able to show the paintings but the de…
Little Pillows, or Good-Night Thoughts for Little Ones
Read by Jael Baldwin
Frances Ridley Havergal
Thirty-one little evening devotionals, simple enough for the child audience for which they were written, but also inspiring for adults needi…
Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Asia
Read by BettyB
Frank G. Carpenter
Through travelogues, lifestyle descriptions and cultural notes the reader will visit China, Japan, India, Korea, parts of the Holy Land and …
The Carpenter's World Travels: Holy Land and Syria
Read by BettyB
Frank G. Carpenter
Join a journey through the Holy Land and Syria as it existed in the early 20th century. Visiting and learning of Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Pales…