The Child's Book of American Biography: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Child's Book of American Biography, credited to Mary Stoyell Stimpson, 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 The Child's Book of American Biography, by Mary Stoyell Stimpson. Read by Laura Victoria. In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so often that every child should know a few facts about them. It is hoped the very short stories told here may make boys and girls eager to learn more about these famous people. (from the Forward of the text)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Child's Book of American Biography
• Author credits: Mary Stoyell Stimpson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 4:42:33

Catalogue topics

• children
• biography
• history
• teen/young adult

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - Forward and George Washington — 9:30
2. 02 - William Penn — 8:37
3. 03 - John Paul Jones — 11:25
4. 04 - John Singleton Copley — 9:43
5. 05 - Benjamin Franklin — 11:02
6. 06 - Louis Agassiz — 9:16
7. 07 - Dorothea Lynde Dix — 9:18
8. 08 - Ulysses Simpson Grant — 14:19
9. 09 - Clara Barton — 6:53
10. 10 - Abraham Lincoln — 11:26
11. 11 - Robert Edward Lee — 7:46
12. 12 - John James Audubon — 8:53
13. 13 - Robert Fulton — 10:42
14. 14 - George Peabody — 9:19
15. 15 - Daniel Webster — 8:43
16. 16 - Augustus St. Gaudens — 10:17
17. 17 - Henry David Thoreau — 9:21
18. 18 - Louisa May Alcott — 6:47
19. 19 - Samuel Finley Breese Morse — 10:37
20. 20 - William Hickling Prescott — 10:23
21. 21 - Phillips Brooks — 8:45
22. 22 - Samuel Clemens, Better Known as Mark Twain — 8:09
23. 23 - Joe Jefferson — 9:42
24. 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 8:00

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