The Junior Classics: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Junior Classics, credited to William Patten, 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 Junior Classics Volume 1 by William Patten. The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of from six to sixteen years of age. (summary from book introduction) This collection consists of Volume 1 of The Junior Classics, and it contains many well known stories in their original forms. Among stories from other authors, you’ll find Hans Christian Anderson, Aesop, and the Grimm brothers.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Junior Classics
• Author credits: William Patten
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 117
• Listed recording duration: 14:17:52

Catalogue topics

• fable
• tale
• aesop
• story

Opening tracks: first 24 of 117

1. 000 - Preface by William Patten — 8:04
2. 001 - Manabozho, The Mischief Maker by H.R. Schoolcraft — 13:15
3. 002 - The Woodpecker by H. R. Schoolcraft — 9:15
4. 003 - Why the Diver Duck has So Few Tail Feathers by H. R. Schoolcraft — 3:54
5. 004 - Manabozho is Changed into a Wolf by H.R. Schoolcraft — 5:56
6. 005 - Manabozho is Robbed by the Wolves by H. R. Schoolcraft — 3:39
7. 006 - Manabozho and the Woodpeckers by H. R. Schoolcraft — 6:37
8. 007 - The Boy and the Wolves retold by Andrew Lang — 5:37
9. 008 - The Indian Who Lost His Wife by Andrew Lang — 5:46
10. 009 - Punchkin by E. Frere — 31:03
11. 010 - The Sun, Moon, and Wind by E. Frere — 3:49
12. 011 - Why the Fish Laughed by Joseph Jacobs — 14:15
13. 012 - The Farmer and Money Lender by Joseph Jacobs — 6:29
14. 013 - Pride Goeth Before a Fall by Joseph Jacob — 5:14
15. 014 - The Wicked Sons by Joseph Jacob — 2:44
16. 015 -The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal by Flora Annie Steel — 5:34
17. 016 - Lambikin by Flora Annie Steel — 4:51
18. 017 - The Rat's Wedding by Flora Annie Steel — 14:26
19. 018 - The Jackal and the Partridge by Flora Annie Steel — 6:48
20. 019 - The Jackal and The Crocodile by Flora Annie Steel — 6:10
21. 020 - The Jackal and The Iguana by Flora Annie Steel — 5:43
22. 021 - The Bear's Very Bad Bargain - by Flora Annie Steel — 9:30
23. 022 - The Thief and the Fox by Ramaswami Raju — 1:39
24. 023 - The Farmer and the Fox by Ramaswami Raju — 1:51

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