Tommy Smith's Animals: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tommy Smith's Animals, credited to Edmund Selous, 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 Tommy Smith's Animals by Edmund Selous. Read in English by BettyB; SweetHome Tommy Smith is a wicked little boy, who would harm animals for sport. He would catch them if he could, throw stones if he could not, and generally disturb all animals around him. He became such a nuissance to everyone at last that the animals hold a meeting to discuss what to do. The wise owl has an idea: "Let the next animal that he is going to kill or throw stones at, call out to him, and tell him not to do so. This will surprise him so much that he will be sure to leave off, and then each of us can tell him something about ourselves in turn. In this way he will get such a high idea of all of us, that he will never annoy us any more, but treat us with great respect for the future.” - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tommy Smith's Animals
• Author credits: Edmund Selous
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 4:01:16

Catalogue topics

• children
• fiction
• animals
• kids
• educational
• 1899
• 2018

Track guide

1. 01 - The Meeting — 10:29
2. 02 - The Frog and the Toad — 17:36
3. 03 - The Rook — 17:28
4. 04 - The Rat — 17:34
5. 05 - The Hare — 24:30
6. 06 - The Grass-Snake and Adder — 27:00
7. 07 - The Peewit — 21:07
8. 08 - The Mole — 30:28
9. 09 - The Woodpigeon — 24:42
10. 10 - The Squirrel — 23:49
11. 11 - The Barn-Owl — 23:38
12. 12 - The Leave-Taking — 2:55

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