The Tree-Dwellers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Tree-Dwellers, credited to Katharine Elizabeth Dopp, 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 Tree Dwellers by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp. Read by J. M. Smallheer. Katharine E. Dopp was well-known as a teacher and writer of children's textbooks at the turn of the 20th Century. She was among the first educators to encourage the incorporation of physical and practical activity into the elementary school curriculum at a time when such activities were becoming less commonplace in a child's home environment. The Tree-Dwellers - The Age of Fear is the first in a series of elementary school texts written by Ms. Dopp that focus on the anthropological development of early human groups. Each lesson begins by posing a few questions for the child to think about, then factual information about these early humans is presented in story form using language a 6-7 yr old child can easily read and understand, followed by suggested activities that will help the child to experience first-hand some of the points presented in the story. The book also contains suggestions and references for teachers to aid in the successful use of the text. (Summary by J. M. Smallheer) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org. M4B audio book (64mb)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Tree-Dwellers
• Author credits: Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 2:22:20

Catalogue topics

• education
• elementary school
• anthropology
• children
• textbook

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 00 - Preface — 8:19
2. 01 - A Story of Long Ago — 1:44
3. 02 - Sharptooth — 1:33
4. 03 - The Wooded Hills — 2:22
5. 04 - Sharptooth's Excursions — 3:06
6. 05 - Sharptooth and Her Baby — 1:59
7. 06 - The First Weaver — 1:53
8. 07 - What Happened When the Wild Cattle Went to the River — 2:52
9. 08 - How Sharptooth Spent the Night — 2:13
10. 09 - Sharptooth Goes to the River — 2:56
11. 10 - What the Wild Hogs Did for Sharptooth — 2:04
12. 11 - How the Wild Hogs Protected their Young — 2:03
13. 12 - How the Tree-dwellers Taught their Children — 2:36
14. 13 - Alone on the Wooded Hills — 2:16
15. 14 - How Bodo Found Wild Honey — 1:13
16. 15 - Bodo Follows the Wild Horses — 2:19
17. 16 - Ancestors of Our Mammals — 2:25
18. 17 - The Story of the Wild Horse — 3:07
19. 18 - How Bodo Learned to Make Tools and Weapons — 1:45
20. 19 - Bodo's Hammer and Knife — 4:43
21. 20 - What Bodo and One-Ear Found in the Alders — 2:42
22. 21 - How the Hyenas Hunted — 2:58
23. 22 - Frightened by Fire — 2:30
24. 23 - How People Got Their First Homes — 3:58

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