John Dough and the Cherub: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 19 original MP3 tracks, 4:27:31 running time and a link to listen.
John Dough and the Cherub, credited to L. Frank Baum, 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 John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum. Read in English by Beth Thomas; Rob Smith; Leslie Howard; Lynne Thompson; Mark Nelson; Diana Schmidt; Kalynda; Joseph Tabler An evil Arabian sorcerer loans a golden flask full of the Great Elixir - a magic liquid that endows a person with pronounced health, strength, and longevity - to a colorblind baker's wife to stop it falling into the wrong hands. Unfortunately, the woman mixes up the Elixir with her rheumatism medicine, which, through even more misunderstanding, then ends up being used in batch of gingerbread. Out of this dough comes John Dough, a six-foot novelty gingerbread man who promptly comes to life and runs away, in an echo of an old nursery rhyme. Pursued by the evil sorcerer, who wants to eat him to gain the power of immortality, and children, who want to eat him because he's made of cake, John Dough and his sidekick the Cherub flee through a variety of strange fantasy lands and bizarre scenarios, including an encounter with "The King of Fairy Beavers," an animated Wooden Indian, a girl executioner who never gets to kill anybody and weeps over the fact, a two-legged talking horse that bullies its rider, and the youthful and tyrannical "Kinglet" of Phreex. Will John Dough escape those who want him eaten? Published in 1906, the novel, though not considered part of the Oz canon, its main characters make cameo appearances in The Road to Oz (1909). - Summary by Mary Kay, E. Toland and Wikipedia
Recording facts
- Recording title: John Dough and the Cherub
- Author credits: L. Frank Baum
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 19
- Listed recording duration: 4:27:31
Catalogue topics
- children
- adventure
- Oz
- fantasy
- food
- magic
- enchantment
- technology
Track guide
- 01 - The Great Elixir — 12:15
- 02 - The Two Flasks — 3:50
- 03 - The Gingerbread Man — 8:35
- 04 - John Dough Begins his Adventures — 14:22
- 05 - Chick, the Cherub — 51:40
- 06 - The Freaks of Phreex — 16:52
- 07 - The Lady Executioner — 13:12
- 08 - The Palace of Romance — 12:34
- 09 - The Silver Pig — 5:10
- 10 - Pittypat and the Mifkets — 17:40
- 11 - The Island Princess — 11:14
- 12 - Para Bruin, the Rubber Bear — 13:11
- 13 - Black Ooboo — 16:43
- 14 - Under Land and Water — 12:15
- 15 - The Fairy Beavers — 18:53
- 16 - The Flight of the Flamingoes — 10:25
- 17 - Sport of Pirate Island — 9:42
- 18 - Hiland and Loland — 13:31
- 19 - King Dough and his Court — 5:27
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