The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse, credited to Arthur Scott Bailey, 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 Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse by Arthur Scott Bailey. "All the four-footed folk in the neighborhood agreed that Dickie Deer Mouse was well worth knowing. Throughout Pleasant Valley there was no one else so gentle as he . . . He was always tastefully dressed in fawn color and white. And except sometimes in the spring, when he needed a new coat, he was a real joy to see. For he both looked and acted like a well-bred little person." In one of Bailey's "Sleepy-Time Tales", we follow a polite little mouse called Dickie as he hunts for a summer home, finds food, and avoids various predators. But winter is coming, and Dickie must look for a cozy place to sleep. He then makes a slight mistake, with results that could be disastrous -- or not. In this recording the voice of Dickie is read by five-year-old SuperCoconut, while her older sister narrates and reads the other characters. (Summary by Rachel)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse
• Author credits: Arthur Scott Bailey
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 1:11:22

Catalogue topics

• mouse
• valley
• deer mouse
• sleepy time tales

Track guide

1. 01 - A Little Gentleman — 3:09
2. 02 - Hunting a Home — 3:15
3. 03 - A Startled Sleeper — 3:49
4. 04 - The Blackbird's Nest — 3:28
5. 05 - Dickie's Summer Home — 2:44
6. 06 - A Warning — 3:24
7. 07 - Noisy Visitors — 3:24
8. 08 - In the Cornfield — 3:20
9. 09 - Fatty Coon Needs Help — 3:07
10. 10 - A Bit of Advice — 3:15
11. 11 - A Search in Vain — 4:17
12. 12 - A Little Surprise — 3:29
13. 13 - The Feathers Fly — 3:16
14. 14 - Making Ready for Winter — 3:07
15. 15 - A Plunge in the Dark — 2:54
16. 16 - A Lucky Find — 2:55
17. 17 - A Slight Mistake — 4:10
18. 18 - Too Many Cousins — 3:09
19. 19 - The Wrong Turn — 4:23
20. 20 - Bedfellows — 3:11
21. 21 - One Way to Keep Warm — 3:51
22. 22 - Queer Mr. Pine Finch — 3:32
23. 23 - A Feast at Last — 5:16

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