The Mary Frances Story Book: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Mary Frances Story Book, credited to Jane Eayre Fryer, 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 Mary Frances Story Book by Jane Eayre Fryer. Read in English by Jennifer Dallman; Lynne T; ysevechan; Lynda Marie Neilson; Ren Sampang; Emma Charlotte; nighthawks; Kathleen Moore The Mary Frances Story Book is different from the other Mary Frances Books. They are part lessons and part story; they teach something about cooking and sewing, knitting and crocheting, housekeeping and gardening, and first-aid—and tell a story, too; but The Mary Frances Story Book is all story. On a summer afternoon Mary Frances took a holiday and sailed away across the blue water to an island—an island formed by the top of a coral mountain resting in a sea of blue; oh, so blue—a brighter blue than the water in your mother’s bluing tub—not the blue that makes you feel sad and blue, but the blue that makes you laugh with happiness. The island itself and the roofs of the houses were coral white, and the green was the green of the palm and banana and mahogany tree. The breezes that blew over them were the warm, soft breezes of the southern sun. This island was the “enchanted island” of the good story-tellers which Mary Frances was allowed to visit. The story people who lived there believed in truth and beauty, and courage and kindness, and these were the theme of their stories. Like all good islands, this island had enemies, but they came to a bad end, as, in the long run, all evil persons will; and truth and beauty, and courage and kindness won the day, as they always must in every land where the searchlight of the sun flashes its beams. As may be imagined, when Mary Frances came home she had not only one, but many stories to tell; and they are written in this book. - Summary by From the Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Mary Frances Story Book
• Author credits: Jane Eayre Fryer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 9:54:16

Catalogue topics

• adventure

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 01 - THE TRIP TO STORY ISLAND: On the Shore — 5:24
2. 02 - The Good Ferry Puts Out to Sea — 8:22
3. 03 - The Pirate’s Cat — 4:59
4. 04 - The Story of the Lost Story — 4:41
5. 05 - Land Ahoy — 8:23
6. 06 - The Old Witch and the Iron-Chain Curtain — 3:29
7. 07 - Finding the Lost Story — 6:24
8. 08 - The Pirate Chases The Good Ferry — 2:56
9. 09 - The Terrible Punishment of the Pirate and the Old Witch — 5:43
10. 10 - The Bubble Story — 7:24
11. 11 - STORIES TOLD THE FIRST DAY: Mischievous Anna and Peter — 9:55
12. 12 - Diamonds and Toads — 8:59
13. 13 - The Magic Necklace — 13:05
14. 14 - The Cat and the Carrots — 10:34
15. 15 - The Brahmin, the Tiger, and the Jackal — 5:45
16. 16 - The Red Dragon — 3:54
17. 17 - Two Poems — 5:24
18. 18 - Tiny’s Adventures in Tinytown — 29:28
19. 19 - Tiny Has More Adventures — 25:13
20. 20 - STORIES TOLD THE SECOND DAY: The Magic Mask — 13:09
21. 21 - The Closing Door — 7:43
22. 22 - Tom Goes Down the Well — 17:45
23. 23 - Gloomy Gus and the Christmas Cat — 11:52
24. 24 - Patty and Her Pitcher — 35:54

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