The Japanese Twins: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Japanese Twins, credited to Lucy Fitch Perkins, 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 Japanese Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. In a little town near a large city on one of the Happy Islands, there is a garden. In the garden stands a house, and in that House there live Taro, who is a boy, and Take (Pronounce Tah'-kay), who is a girl. They are twins. They are Japanese Twins and they are just five years old, both of them. Of course, Taro and Take do not live alone in the house in the garden. Their Father and Mother live there too, and their Grandmother, who is very old, and the Baby, who is very young. Taro and Take cannot remember when Grandmother and Father and Mother happened, because they were all there when the Twins came; and the Twins could not possibly imagine the world without Father and Mother and Grandmother. But with the Baby it was different. One day there wasn't any Baby at all, and the next day after that, there he was, looking very new but quite at home already in the little house in the garden, where Taro and Take lived. - Summary by Lucy Fitch Perkins

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Japanese Twins
• Author credits: Lucy Fitch Perkins
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 2:05:29

Catalogue topics

• Japan
• twins
• family
• baby

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction - The Japanese Twins and Bot'Chan — 3:50
2. 01 - The Day the Baby Came — 23:30
3. 02 - Morning in the Little House — 13:25
4. 03 - How they Went to the Temple — 24:01
5. 04 - A Rainy Day — 17:52
6. 05 - Take's Birthday — 19:28
7. 06 - Going to School — 10:02
8. 07 - Taro's Birthday — 13:21

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