Good Stories for Great Birthdays: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Good Stories for Great Birthdays, credited to Frances Jenkins Olcott, 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 Good Stories for Great Birthdays by Frances Jenkins Olcott. Read in English by brianna; Lynda Marie Neilson; Lynne T; Dusty Brailsford; BettyB; Sarah Jump; mparker ; Bill Mosley; Natasha Fisher; Janis Hopkins Salmon; Pixxol; Beau Wood "Here are over 200 stories celebrating 23 great birthdays of patriot-founders and upbuilders of the Republics of both North and South America. In the stories are more than 75 historical characters, men, women, and children. The arrangement follows the school-year, beginning in October with Columbus." The stories included are to be read by or to children as an introduction to the biographies of many fascinating and important Americans. - Summary by From the Preface and by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Good Stories for Great Birthdays
• Author credits: Frances Jenkins Olcott
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 10:14:07

Catalogue topics

• biography
• american
• heroes

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 00 - Foreward — 12:15
2. 01 - October 12 Columbus and Discoverer's Day — 45:31
3. 02 - October 14 William Penn, The Founder of Pennsylvania — 17:37
4. 03 - October 27 Theodore Roosevelt, America's Hero: The Square Deal, Theodore Roosevelt — 37:46
5. 04 - October 30 John Adams, The Son of Liberty — 24:52
6. 05 - November 15 William Pitt, Defender of America — 18:35
7. 06 - December 2 Dom Pedro the Second, the Magnanimus, the Best Republican in Brazil — 26:00
8. 07 - December 20 William Bradford, and the Landing of the Pilgrims — 28:09
9. 08 - January 7 General Israel Putnam, 'Old Put' — 12:45
10. 09 - January 11 Alexander Hamilton, Defender of the Constitution — 9:59
11. 10 - January 17 Benjamin Franklin, the American Socrates — 11:17
12. 11 - February 12 Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator — 17:28
13. 12 - February 22 George Washington, The Father of his Country Part 1 — 29:20
14. 13 - February 22 George Washington, The Father of his Country Part 2 — 36:02
15. 14 - February 25 Jose de San Martin of Argentina, The Protector Part 1 — 31:47
16. 15 - February 25 Jose de San Martin of Argentina, The Protector Part 2 — 31:34
17. 16 - March 15 Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory — 35:30
18. 17 - April 13 Thomas Jefferson, The Framer of the Declaration of Independence — 13:24
19. 18 - May 29 Patrick Henry, The Orator of the War for Independence — 9:31
20. 19 - June 9 Francisco de Miranda of Venezuela, the Flaming Son of Liberty — 29:21
21. 20 - June 23-24 Roger Williams and the Founding of Providence — 9:55
22. 21 - July 6 John Paul Jones, America's Immortal Sea-Fighter — 17:03
23. 22 - July 24 Simon Bolivar of Venezuela, the Liberator — 27:05
24. 23 - August 20 Bernardo O'Higgins, First Soldier, First Citizen of Chile — 21:25

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