The Emerald Story Book: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Emerald Story Book, credited to Various, 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 Emerald Story Book by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. There is no richer theme for children’s stories than the miracle of Spring. The selections in “The Emerald Story Book” aim to serve the young reader’s interest in three ways. Some of the myths and legends are interesting or amusing because flowers, insects, or birds are presented as personalities and emphasise human qualities or feelings. Some of the stories and poems contribute to the child’s store of knowledge by attracting his attention to some fact, beauty, or blessing in nature which may have escaped his notice. Still others make an appeal by suggesting or affirming the abiding hope symbolised in the thought, “See the land her Easter keeping.” The child’s heart is filled with the joy of spring,—with the rapture expressed in the thrush’s song which Mrs. Ewing describes. “Fresh water and green woods, ambrosial sunshine and sun-flecked shade, chattering brooks and rustling leaves, glade and sward and dell. Lichens and cool mosses, feathered ferns and flowers. Green leaves! Green leaves! Joy! Joy!” (From the Introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Emerald Story Book
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 67
• Listed recording duration: 7:02:58

Opening tracks: first 24 of 67

1. 01 - April by Robert Browning — 1:16
2. 02 - The Spring-Maiden and the Frost Giants (Norse Legend) by Eleanor L. Skinner — 14:54
3. 03 - How the Bluebird Was Chosen Herald by Jay T. Stocking — 22:47
4. 04 - The Springtime by Eugene Field — 11:47
5. 05 - The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde — 10:44
6. 06 - The Promised Plant by Andrea Hofer Proudfoot — 4:00
7. 07 - Brier Rose by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith — 8:09
8. 08 - Picciola (Adapted) by St. Saintine — 7:19
9. 09 - St. Francis, the Little Bedesman of Christ by William Canton — 4:54
10. 10 - Prosperpina and King Pluto (Greek Myth) by Eleanor L. Skinner — 13:36
11. 11 - The Wonder--A Parable (From ''Parables'') by Friedrich Adolph Krummacher — 4:00
12. 12 - Green Things Growing (Poem) by Dinah Mulock Craik — 1:19
13. 13 - The Story of a Little Grain of Wheat by May Byron — 15:03
14. 14 - The Little Acorn by Lucy Wheelock — 5:07
15. 15 - The Story of Two Little Seeds by George MacDonald — 4:13
16. 16 - How the Flowers Came (Selected) by Jay T. Stocking — 7:26
17. 17 - The Legend of the Trailing Arbutus (Indian Legend) by Eleanor L. Skinner — 5:51
18. 18 - The Fairy Flower (adapted from ''Norwood'') by Henry Ward Beecher — 6:48
19. 19 - The Snowdrop by Hans Christian Andersen — 4:54
20. 20 - What the Dandelion Told by Clara Maetzel — 5:42
21. 21 - Verse by James Russell Lowell — 0:43
22. 22 - A Great Family by Agnes McClelland Daulton — 5:13
23. 23 - The Birth of the Violet (Legend) by Ada M. Skinner — 5:15
24. 24 - A Lyric of Joy (Poem) by Bliss Carman — 0:59

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