Rhymes for the Nursery: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Rhymes for the Nursery, credited to Ann Taylor; Jane Taylor, 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 Rhymes for the Nursery by Ann Taylor; Jane Taylor. Read in English by Jordan Watts This early 19th-century children's poetry collection by Jane and Ann Taylor is little-known today, but contains the original version of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, known then as just The Star. Also included are poems about why you shouldn't kill kittens, birds and flies, a poem about how you can be seriously scarred if you play with fire, and a poem about a homeless man who cries himself to sleep because of how naughty he was a child. (Jordan)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Rhymes for the Nursery
• Author credits: Ann Taylor; Jane Taylor
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 1:24:05

Catalogue topics

• nursery rhymes

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 1:22
2. 01 - Poems 1-9 — 7:51
3. 02 - Poems 10-18 — 9:24
4. 03 - Poems 19-27 — 7:08
5. 04 - Poems 28-36 — 8:49
6. 05 - Poems 37-45 — 9:53
7. 06 - Poems 46-54 — 9:29
8. 07 - Poems 55-63 — 9:57
9. 08 - Poems 64-72 — 10:04
10. 09 - Poems 73-81 — 10:08

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