The Fairies and the Christmas Child: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Fairies and the Christmas Child, credited to Lilian Gask, 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 Fairies and the Christmas Child, by Lilian Gask. The worst of being a Christmas Child is that you don’t get birthday presents, but only Christmas ones. Old Naylor, who was Father’s coachman, and had a great gruff voice that came from his boots and was rather frightening, used to ask how I expected to grow up without proper birthdays, and I thought I might have to stay little always. When I told Father this he laughed, but a moment later he grew quite grave. “Listen, Chris,” he said. And then he took me on his knee—I was a small chap then—and told me things that made me forget old Naylor, and wish and wish that Mother could have stayed with us. The angels had wanted her, Father explained; well, we wanted her too, and there were plenty of angels in heaven, anyway. When I said this Father gave me a great squeeze and put me down, and I tried to be glad that I was a Christmas child. But I wasn’t really until a long time afterwards, when I had found the Fairy Ring, and met the Queen of the Fairies... (Summary by PG)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Fairies and the Christmas Child
• Author credits: Lilian Gask
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 3:52:52

Catalogue topics

• children
• fairy tales
• fairies
• christmas
• lilian gask
• christmas child

Track guide

1. 01 - The Fairy Ring — 18:41
2. 02 - The Princess with the Sea-Green Hair — 17:52
3. 03 - Rose-Marie and the Poupican — 17:36
4. 04 - The Bird at the Window — 18:06
5. 05 - The White Stone of Happiness — 15:45
6. 06 - The Seven Fair Queens of Pirou — 22:34
7. 07 - In the Dwarf's Palace — 17:45
8. 08 - The Silver Horn — 18:06
9. 09 - The Little White Feather — 17:01
10. 10 - The Wild Huntsman — 23:46
11. 11 - The White Princess — 24:38
12. 12 - The Favourite of the Fates — 21:09

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