The Wishing-Stone Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Wishing-Stone Stories, credited to Thornton W. Burgess, 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 Wishing-Stone Stories by Thornton W. Burgess. Read by LibriVox Volunteers “Tommy scuffed his bare, brown feet in the grass … A scowl, a deep, dark, heavy scowl, had chased all merriment from his round, freckled face. It seemed as if the very freckles were trying to hide from it. Tommy didn’t care. He said so. He said so right out loud. He didn’t care if all the world knew it. He wanted the world to know it. It was a horrid old world anyway…” Soon, Tommy finds the “wishing stone.” His wishes transform him into a mouse, and then a succession of animals of the forest giving him a new perspective and exciting adventures, including times with Peter Rabbit and other forest friends. What will he finally learn about himself and the world? - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Wishing-Stone Stories
• Author credits: Thornton W. Burgess
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 4:37:53

Catalogue topics

• nature
• juvenile literature
• animals
• fantasy
• Peter Rabbit
• tommy

Track guide

1. 01 - Tommy and the Wishing-Stone — 20:56
2. 02 - How Tommy Learned to Admire Thunderer the Ruffed Grouse — 23:48
3. 03 - What Happened When Tommy Became a Mink — 21:49
4. 04 - Tommy Becomes a Very Humble Person — 22:22
5. 05 - Why Peter Rabbit Has One Less Enemy — 20:24
6. 06 - Why Tommy Became a Friend of Red Squirrels — 24:42
7. 07 - The Pleasures and Troubles of Bobby Coon — 20:25
8. 08 - How Tommy Envied Honker the Goose — 21:36
9. 09 - How It Happened that Reddy Fox Gained a Friend — 30:45
10. 10 - Tommy Becomes a Furry Engineer — 23:55
11. 11 - Why Tommy Took Up All His Traps — 25:16
12. 12 - Tommy Learns What It Is Like to Be a Bear — 21:55

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