David and the Phoenix: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

David and the Phoenix, credited to Edward Ormondroyd, 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 David and the Phoenix, by Edward Ormondroyd. Read by Greg Weeks. David knew that one should be prepared for anything when one climbs a mountain, but he never dreamed what he would find that June morning on the mountain ledge. There stood an enormous bird, with a head like an eagle, a neck like a swan, and a scarlet crest. The most astonishing thing was that the bird had an open book on the ground and was reading from it! This was David's first sight of the fabulous Phoenix and the beginning of a pleasant and profitable partnership. The Phoenix found a great deal lacking in David's education -- he flunked questions like "How do you tell a true from a false Unicorn?" -- and undertook to supplement it with a practical education, an education that would be a preparation for Life. The education had to be combined with offensive and defensive measures against a Scientist who was bent on capturing the Phoenix, but the two projects together involved exciting and hilarious adventures for boy and bird. A wonderful read-aloud book, adventurous and very funny, with much of the magic as well as the humor of the fantastic. (Summary from the front flap of the dust jacket.

Recording facts

• Recording title: David and the Phoenix
• Author credits: Edward Ormondroyd
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 3:00:25

Catalogue topics

• Fantasy
• adventure
• children

Track guide

1. Chapter 01 — 10:12
2. Chapter 02 — 17:07
3. Chapter 03 — 11:57
4. Chapter 04 — 16:43
5. Chapter 05 — 20:01
6. Chapter 06 — 21:54
7. Chapter 07 — 16:08
8. Chapter 08 — 25:33
9. Chapter 09 — 20:53
10. Chapter 10 — 20:03

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