Sky Island: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sky Island, 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 Sky Island, by L. Frank Baum. Read by Judy Bieber Sky Island (1912) was the second of three titles written by Baum featuring a spunky girl from California, Trot, and her companion, the old sailorman, Cap'n Bill. Baum had hoped to end the Oz series in 1910 and the following year he introduced Trot and Cap'n Bill in The Sea Fairies. In Sky Island, they journey to an island in the sky by means of an enchanted umbrella belonging to Button Bright, a character who first appeared in The Road to Oz (1909). The trio is then captured by the Boolaroo of the Blues, a monarch who is both comical and dangerous, escape to the country of the "Pinks," and eventually regain the magic umbrella and return back to earth. This is one of Baum's best fantasy books and contains enough not-so-veiled commentary on race and politics to interest adults as well. However, it (and The Sea Fairies) did not sell as well as the Oz books and Baum resumed writing them in 1913. He subsequently brought Trot and Cap'n Bill to Oz in 1915 in The Scarecrow of Oz. (Summary by Judy Bieber) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sky Island
• Author credits: L. Frank Baum
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 59
• Listed recording duration: 5:40:54

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• fantasy

Opening tracks: first 24 of 59

1. 01_baum_skyisland — 15:05
2. 01_baum_skyisland — 15:05
3. 02_baum_skyisland — 16:08
4. 02_baum_skyisland — 16:08
5. 03_baum_skyisland — 14:02
6. 03_baum_skyisland — 14:02
7. 04_baum_skyisland — 7:56
8. 04_baum_skyisland — 7:56
9. 05_baum_skyisland — 13:46
10. 05_baum_skyisland — 13:46
11. 06_baum_skyisland — 11:13
12. 06_baum_skyisland — 11:13
13. 07_baum_skyisland — 11:28
14. 07_baum_skyisland — 11:28
15. 08_baum_skyisland — 11:53
16. 08_baum_skyisland — 11:53
17. 09_baum_skyisland — 13:50
18. 09_baum_skyisland — 13:50
19. 10_baum_skyisland — 14:52
20. 10_baum_skyisland — 14:52
21. 11_baum_skyisland — 9:16
22. 11_baum_skyisland — 9:16
23. 12_baum_skyisland — 10:26
24. 12_baum_skyisland — 10:26

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