Folk Tales Every Child Should Know: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Folk Tales Every Child Should Know, credited to Hamilton Wright Mabie, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie. Read in English by Jennifer Dorr; Todd Jenken; Lynne Thompson; Claire Schreuder; mlcui; Ellen Preckel; Jude Somers; Greg Giordano; Alexis Castro We have always loved stories. people have always entertained each other by telling tales around the campfire; traveling storytellers were huge crowd-pullers. Many of these stories were passed down through the generations, largely unchanged. "The stories made by the people, and told before evening fires, or in public places and at the gates of inns in the Orient, belong to the ages when books were few and knowledge limited, or to people whose fancy was not hampered by familiarity with or care for facts; they are the creations, as they were the amusement, of men and women who were children in knowledge, but were thinking deeply and often wisely of what life meant to them, and were eager to know and hear more about themselves, their fellows, and the world. In the earlier folk-stories one finds a childlike simplicity and readiness to believe in the marvellous; and these qualities are found also in the French peasant's version of the career of Napoleon. " (from the Introduction). - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Folk Tales Every Child Should Know
• Author credits: Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 4:09:21

Catalogue topics

• short stories
• folk stories
• familiar

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 8:15
2. 01 - Hans In Luck — 12:35
3. 02 - Why The Sea Is Salt — 10:01
4. 03 - The Lad Who Went To The North Wind — 6:49
5. 04 - The Lad And The Deil — 2:09
6. 05 - Ananzi And The Lion — 8:13
7. 06 - The Grateful Foxes — 17:08
8. 07 - The Badger's Money — 9:52
9. 08 - Why Brother Bear Has No Tail — 7:31
10. 09 - The Origin Of Rubies — 9:41
11. 10 - Long, Broad And Sharpsight — 20:09
12. 11 - Intelligence And Luck — 8:15
13. 12 - George With The Goat — 10:17
14. 13 - The Wonderful Hair — 5:43
15. 14 - The Dragon And The Prince — 15:05
16. 15 - The Good Children — 9:15
17. 16 - The Dun Horse — 11:55
18. 17 - The Greedy Youngster — 19:20
19. 18 - Hans Who Made The Princess Laugh — 11:03
20. 19 - The Story Of Tom Tit Tot — 9:29
21. 20 - The Peasant Story Of Napoleon — 36:37

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