Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks, credited to May Farinholt Jones, 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 Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks by May Farinholt Jones. Read in English by BettyB; Shriya; Larry Wilson; Andrew Gaunce; Kelly Park; Jenn Broda; mleigh; Misikis; Lily Ellis; Suzabelle "The child's mind dwells constantly in the realm of imagination; dry facts are too prosaic to enter this realm. The "Land of Story Books" is the most fascinating of all lands, and therefore the Author has endeavored to weave hygienic facts into stories that will appeal to the child's imagination. She believes the truths of hygienic living and habits in the stories will "creep up on the blind side," so to speak, and impress themselves upon the young mind." -from the Foreword This book was published in 1916, and therefore represents what was then known of the science of health and hygiene (and, of course, the social morés of the time). Listeners will find that, while some of these stories have not aged well, others reflect an accurate understanding of the body, and all have a certain charm. - Summary by Devorah Allen

Recording facts

• Recording title: Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks
• Author credits: May Farinholt Jones
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 2:33:34

Catalogue topics

• children
• stories
• health
• hygiene

Track guide

1. 00 - Foreword — 3:49
2. 01 - A Wonderful Engine - Two Little Plants — 11:16
3. 02 - The Story of a Fly - SWAT THE FLY — 9:39
4. 03 - The Story of the Rain Barrel - Malaria — 10:45
5. 04 - Jack Frost — 10:11
6. 05 - A Story of Tuberculosis — 7:23
7. 06 - It Is Time That You Should Stop - A True Story — 5:50
8. 07 - Two Little Windows - Merry Sunshine — 4:48
9. 08 - A Wonderful Stream — 6:55
10. 09 - Two Mills - A Child's Calendar - The Toothbrush Brigade — 6:10
11. 10 - Mr. Fly and Mrs. Mosquito — 4:54
12. 11 - A Hygiene Song — 1:57
13. 12 - Our Little Enemies - One Little Girl — 7:25
14. 13 - Clovis, the Boy King — 8:23
15. 14 - What Temperance Brings - The White Ship — 10:17
16. 15 - A Queer Case — 3:01
17. 16 - The Little Girl and the Butterfly — 5:55
18. 17 - Little Barefoot — 5:13
19. 18 - The Little Fairies — 4:23
20. 19 - The Red Cross Seal — 7:40
21. 20 - The Sand Bed - The House That Jack Built — 4:16
22. 21 - A New Story of the Lion and the Mouse — 3:48
23. 22 - First Aid to the Injured and the Boy Scouts — 4:56
24. 23 - An Invitation - A Great Fight - The Five Best Doctors — 4:40

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