Dandelion Cottage: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Dandelion Cottage, credited to Carroll Watson Rankin, 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 Dandelion Cottage, by Carroll Watson Rankin. Read by Betsie Bush. Carroll Watson Rankin's best known novel is Dandelion Cottage, published in 1904 by Henry Holt and Company. She first wrote the story serially for her own children. Considered a regional classic in the midwest, it tells of four young girls who negotiate the use of a derelict cottage as a playhouse by pulling dandelions for the owner, prosperous Mr. Black. The real life model for Mr. Black is generally acknowledged to be Marquette businessman and philanthropist, Peter White. The original Dandelion Cottage is located at 440 East Arch and is privately owned. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Dandelion Cottage
• Author credits: Carroll Watson Rankin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 4:43:21

Catalogue topics

• Fiction
• children
• juvenile

Track guide

1. 01 - Mr. Black's Terms — 15:01
2. 02 - Paying the Rent — 10:52
3. 03 - The Tenants Take Possession — 15:12
4. 04 - Furnishing the Cottage — 13:07
5. 05 - Poverty in the Cottage — 8:55
6. 06 - A Lodger to the Rescue — 15:13
7. 07 - The Girls Disclose a Plan — 11:51
8. 08 - An Unexpected Crop of Dandelions — 11:26
9. 09 - Changes and Plans — 18:25
10. 10 - The Milligans — 18:28
11. 11 - An Embarrassing Visitor — 18:12
12. 12 - A Lively Afternoon — 19:34
13. 13 - The Junior Warden — 9:54
14. 14 - An Unexpected Letter — 8:50
15. 15 - An Obdurate Landlord — 15:11
16. 16 - Mabel Plans a Surprise — 7:03
17. 17 - Several Surprises Take Effect — 9:28
18. 18 - A Hurried Retreat — 9:21
19. 19 - The Response to Mabel's Telegram — 15:39
20. 20 - The Odd Behavior of the Grown-ups — 11:27
21. 21 - The Dinner — 20:20

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