Among the Pond People: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Among the Pond People, credited to Clara Dillingham Pierson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Among the Pond People by Clara Dillingham Pierson. Read in English by Jill Engle; Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett; Jon Kissack; Claire; deongines; rookieblue; Jennifer Dorr; Sharon Kilmer; Kathy Wright Lovely book for children written by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People" series explores the animal inhabitants of a pond. The beautiful writing brings the pond creatures into being in the reader's imagination and allows them a glimpse of the mysterious lives being carried out above and below the water's surface. (Summary by Jill Engle)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Among the Pond People
• Author credits: Clara Dillingham Pierson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 3:20:45

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:04
2. 01 - The Biggest Frog Awakens — 12:22
3. 02 - The Dance of the Sand-hill Cranes — 8:49
4. 03 - The Young Minnow Who Would Not Eat When He Should — 8:17
5. 04 - The Stickleback Father — 11:05
6. 05 - The Careless Caddis Worm — 11:35
7. 06 - The Tadpole Who Wanted to be Grown Up — 12:22
8. 07 - The Runaway Water Spiders — 10:35
9. 08 - The Slow Little Mud Turtle — 12:18
10. 09 - The Dragon-fly Children and the Snapping Turtle — 9:00
11. 10 - The Snappy Snapping Turtle — 13:51
12. 11 - The Clever Water-Adder — 8:30
13. 12 - The Good Little Cranes Who Were Bad — 14:11
14. 13 - The Oldest Dragon-fly Nymph — 13:24
15. 14 - The Eels' Moving-Night — 10:41
16. 15 - The Crayfish Mother — 7:56
17. 16 - Two Little Crayfishes Quarrel — 8:35
18. 17 - The Lucky Mink — 13:05
19. 18 - The Playful Muskrats — 11:05

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