Selected Riley Child-Rhymes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Selected Riley Child-Rhymes, credited to James Whitcomb Riley, 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 Selected Riley Child-Rhymes, by James Whitcomb Riley. Read by Val Grimm. Riley was an American writer known as the "Hoosier poet", and made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal in 1875. His favorite authors were Burns and Dickens. This collection of poems is a romanticized and mostly boy-centered paean to a 19th century rural American owning-class childhood. I've included the pieces I did because they're the ones I most enjoyed when I read a copy of the collection handed down from my great-grandfather. (Summary by Val Grimm)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Selected Riley Child-Rhymes
• Author credits: James Whitcomb Riley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 23:23

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• boys
• orphant annie
• The Raggedy Man

Track guide

1. 01 - Little Orphant Annie — 2:36
2. 02 -The Raggedy Man — 2:21
3. 03 - Curly Locks — 1:59
4. 04 - The Bumblebee — 1:27
5. 05 - The Squirtgun Uncle Maked Me — 1:50
6. 06 - The Runaway Boy — 1:59
7. 07 - The Little Coat — 2:30
8. 08 - The Nine Little Goblins — 2:56
9. 09 - Grandfather Squeers — 4:16
10. 10 - A Life Lesson — 1:33

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