Mother Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mother Stories, credited to Maud Lindsay, 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 Mother Stories, by Maud Lindsay. Read by Greg Giordano "I have endeavored to write, for mothers and dear little children, a few simple stories, embodying some of the truths of Froebel's Mother Play...Most of these stories have been told and retold to little children, and are surrounded, in my eyes, by a halo of listening faces" from the Preface to Mother Stories by Maud Lindsay

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mother Stories
• Author credits: Maud Lindsay
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 2:21:30

Catalogue topics

• children
• fairy tales
• shortstories

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:09
2. 01 - The Wind's Work — 6:13
3. 02 - Mrs. Tabby Gray — 4:49
4. 03 - Fleet Wing and Sweet Voice — 7:46
5. 04 - The Little Girl With The Light — 7:36
6. 05 - The Little Gray Pony — 6:26
7. 06 - How The Home Was Built — 7:24
8. 07 - The Little Traveler — 7:29
9. 08 - The Open Gate — 7:18
10. 09 - Inside the Garden Gate — 20:40
11. 10 - The Journey — 7:26
12. 11 - The Giant Energy and The Fairy Skill — 8:47
13. 12 - The Search for a Good Child — 12:14
14. 13 - The Closing Door — 6:16
15. 14 - The Minstrel's Song — 6:51
16. 15 - Dust Under the Rug — 8:23
17. 16 - The Story of Gretchen — 7:48
18. 17 - The King's Birthday — 6:03

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