The Wonder Clock: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Wonder Clock, credited to Howard Pyle, 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 Wonder Clock by Howard Pyle. Read in English by Kara Shallenberg; Michelle Crandall; ; Maria Kasper; Jill Engle; Claudia Salto; ElleyKat; Sophia Noelle; Daryl Wor; rookieblue "Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day," retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the form. While drawing on German, English, and Scandinavian folk literature for many of his characters and plots, Pyle reworks the material in an imaginative way, crafting the tales in his own inimitable style. Equally engaging are the numerous woodcuts that accompany the stories and enliven the narrative. Read along and see the illustrations (Summary from mainlesson.com)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Wonder Clock
• Author credits: Howard Pyle
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 6:59:05

Catalogue topics

• stories
• fairy tales
• Howard Pyle
• The Wonder Clock

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface and Bearskin — 24:52
2. 02 - The Water of Life — 13:44
3. 03 - How One Turned his Trouble to Some Account — 15:16
4. 04 - How Three Went out into the Wide World — 8:22
5. 05 - The Clever Student and the Master of Black Arts — 15:28
6. 06 - The Princess Golden Hair and the Great Black Raven — 17:30
7. 07 - Cousin Greylegs, the Red Fox, and Grandfather Mole — 13:35
8. 08 - One Good Turn Deserves Another — 21:29
9. 09 - The White Bird — 26:04
10. 10 - How The Good Gifts were Used by Two — 16:21
11. 11 - How Boots Befooled the King — 16:39
12. 12 - The Step-mother — 20:25
13. 13 - Master Jacob — 18:30
14. 14 - Peterkin and the Little Grey Hare — 22:28
15. 15 - Mother Hildegarde — 16:37
16. 16 - Which is Best — 16:49
17. 17 - The Simpleton and his Little Black Hen — 15:37
18. 18 - The Swan Maiden — 17:27
19. 19 - The Three Little Pigs and the Ogre — 14:28
20. 20 - The Staff and the Fiddle — 19:13
21. 21 - How the Princess's Pride was Broken — 15:46
22. 22 - How Two Went into Partnership — 14:36
23. 23 - King Stork — 18:45
24. 24 - The Best that Life has to Give — 19:05

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