Holiday Stories for Young People: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Holiday Stories for Young People, credited to Various, 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 Holiday Stories for Young People by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. "Boys and girls, I am proud to call a host of you my personal friends, and I dearly love you all. It has been a great pleasure to me to arrange this gift book for you, and I hope you will like the stories and ballads, and spend many happy hours over them." - Summary by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Recording facts

• Recording title: Holiday Stories for Young People
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 7:21:28

Catalogue topics

• children
• holiday
• girls
• boys
• short story collection

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. 00 - Dedication and Preface, by M. E. Sangster — 2:16
2. 01 - The Cloverleaf Club of Bloomingdale, by M. E. Sangster. Chapter I. The Heroine presents herself — 14:36
3. 02 - The Cloverleaf Club of Bloomingdale, by M. E. Sangster. Chapter II. Company to Tea, and Some Receipts — 12:14
4. 03 - The Cloverleaf Club of Bloomingdale, by M. E. Sangster. Chapter III. A Fair White Loaf — 12:58
5. 04 - The Cloverleaf Club of Bloomingdale, by M. E. Sangster. Chapter IV. How to Sweep — 10:58
6. 05 - The Cloverleaf Club of Bloomingdale, by M. E. Sangster. Chapter V. A Little of Everything — 10:59
7. 06 - The Cloverleaf Club of Bloomingdale, by M. E. Sangster. Chapter VI. A Candy Pull — 9:57
8. 07 - The Cloverleaf Club of Bloomingdale, by M. E. Sangster. Chapter VII. Keeping Accounts — 8:11
9. 08 - The Cloverleaf Club of Bloomingdale, by M. E. Sangster. Chapter VIII. We Give a Reception — 7:49
10. 09 - The Lighthouse Lamp, by M. E. Sangster — 2:44
11. 10 - The Family Mail-bag, by Mary Joanna Porter — 11:53
12. 11 - A Day's Fishing, by Mary Joanna Porter — 10:01
13. 12 - Why Charlie Didn't Go, by Mary Joanna Porter — 8:26
14. 13 - Uncle Giles' Paint Brush, by Mary Joanna Porter — 5:11
15. 14 - The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Robert Browning — 15:45
16. 15 - A Girl Graduate, by Cynthia Barnard — 16:41
17. 16 - A Christmas Frolic by M. E. Sangster — 3:45
18. 17 - Archie's Vacation, by Mary Joanna Porter — 5:10
19. 18 - A Birthday Story, by M. E. Sangster — 7:16
20. 19 - A Coquette, by Amy Pierce — 1:24
21. 20 - Horatius, by T. B. Macaulay — 23:13
22. 21 - A Bit of Brightness, by Mary Joanna Porter — 7:50
23. 22 - How Sammy Earned the Prize, by M. E. Sangster — 0:42
24. 23 - The Glorious Fourth, by Anonymous — 1:12

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