The Curious Book of Birds: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Curious Book of Birds, credited to Abbie Farwell Brown, 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 Curious Book of Birds by Abbie Farwell Brown. Read in English by Anastasiia Solokha; Anthony Webster; Charlotte Day; Jendia; Jill Engle; Kimberly Krause; Marjorie Greaves; rookieblue; ryoko; Schums; Sharon; Susan Morin; WoollyBee Now the interesting facts about birds we have always with us. We can find them out for ourselves, which is a very pleasant thing to do, or we can take the word of others, of which there is no lack. But it is the quaint fancies about birds which are in danger of being lost. The long-time fancies which the world's children in all lands have been taught are quite as important as the every-day facts. They show what the little feathered brothers have been to the children of men; how we have come to like some and to dislike others as we do; why the poets have called them by certain nicknames which we ought to know; and why a great many strange things are so, in the minds of childlike people. (Summary from the book's introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Curious Book of Birds
• Author credits: Abbie Farwell Brown
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 4:32:56

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 00 - Preface — 2:28
2. 01 - The Disobedient Woodpecker — 6:29
3. 02 - Mother Magpie's Kindergarten — 10:07
4. 03 - The Gorgeous Goldfinch — 4:36
5. 04 - King of the Birds — 15:42
6. 05 - Halcyone — 11:15
7. 06 - The Forgetful Kingfisher — 8:49
8. 07 - The Wren Who Brought Fire — 10:05
9. 08 - How the Bluebird Crossed — 4:57
10. 09 - The Peacock's Cousin — 13:13
11. 10 - The Masquerading Crow — 17:38
12. 11 - King Solomon and the Birds — 16:54
13. 12 - The Pious Robin — 8:05
14. 13 - The Robin who was an Indian — 12:18
15. 14 - The Inquisitive Woman — 4:07
16. 15 - Why the Nightingale Wakes — 9:06
17. 16 - Mrs. Partridge's Babies — 5:33
18. 17 - The Early Girl — 7:21
19. 18 - How the Blackbird Spoiled his Coat — 12:25
20. 19 - The Blackbird and the Fox — 4:30
21. 20 - The Dove who Spoke the Truth — 6:25
22. 21 - The Fowls on Pilgrimage — 6:51
23. 22 - The Ground-Pigeon — 9:35
24. 23 - Sister Hen and the Crocodile — 13:45

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