A Children’s Listening Library
About this audiobook
Enjoy a timeless collection of children's fables, fairy tales, and stories, all available in one audiobook. A Children's Listening Library: Volume 1 includes:
Mother Goose's Nursery RhymesSelections from the Tales of Beatrix PotterBeauty & the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" by Peter Christen Asbj├©rnsen and J├©rgen MoeCinderella based on Charles Perrault's version"The Frog Prince" and "Rumplestiltskin" by The Brothers Grimm "The Land of the Blue Flower" by Frances Hodgson Burnett"Racketty-Packetty House" by Frances Hodgson BurnettDollypogs by David ThornThe Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame"The Pied Piper of Hamelin" by Robert Browning "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington IrvingAbout the author
Alcazar AudioWorks is an audiobook producer and publisher for all ages. Founded in 1999, they specialize in classical stories, many of which are specially commissioned for home school curricula.
The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were scholars best known for their lifelong dedication to collecting and publishing ancient German folk tales.
Helen Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was the most popular and admired American poet of the nineteenth century. Known for his narrative historical and mythic poems, his most famous works include Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Tales of Wayside Inn. Versatile as well as prolific, Longfellow also won fame as a writer of short ballads and lyrics, and experimented in the essay, the short story, the novel, and the verse drama.
Charles Perrault (1628–1703) was a French author and intellectual. Known as a founding writer of the fairy tale genre, he rewrote numerous folk tales, including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Blue Beard, and Puss in Boots. His stories, which continue to enjoy worldwide acclaim, have been adapted to opera, ballet, theater, and film.
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester, England, on November 24, 1849. After Burnett's father’s death in 1853, her mother ran the family’s iron foundry until the American Civil War caused the business to fail. Destitute, the Hodgsons moved to Tennessee in 1865 to stay with relatives in a log cabin. Burnett lived there until 1873, when she married a doctor, Swan Burnett, whom she later divorced in 1898. She married Peter Townsend, an actor, in 1900. In her teens Burnett had written stories and tales to help support the family and later claimed never to have written a manuscript that was not published. Her first widespread success came with That Lass o’ Lowrie’s in 1877, a tale of the Lancashire coal mines. But it was the publication of Little Lord Fauntleroy, in 1886, that brought the author fame and wealth and established Cedric as the model for a generation of young boys. Sara Crewe was published in 1888, and the rags-to-riches story was so successful that Burnett revised, expanded, and republished it in 1905 as A Little Princess. The beloved The Secret Garden appeared four years later to enormous critical and popular acclaim. A prolific writer, Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote more than 40 novels and plays and dozens of short stories during her lifetime. She died in Plandome, New York, on October 29, 1924.
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) was born in Edinburgh, but grew up with relatives in Berkshire where he developed his love for the countryside surrounding the upper parts of the River Thames. He was educated at St Edward's in Oxford, but instead of going on to Oxford University he joined the Bank of England, where he rose to become Secretary. He wrote several books including The Golden Age and Dream Days which includes the short story 'The Reluctant Dragon' (later made into a Disney movie). Kenneth Grahame developed the character of Toad in The Wind in the Willows to amuse his young son, Alistair. It was published in 1908 and still remains a best-loved children's classic.
Robert Browning (1812–1889), born in London, was a major English poet of the Victorian age. He is noted for his psychological insight into character and motivations, his colloquial English, and his perfection of the dramatic monologue form. He influenced many modern poets, partly through his development of the dramatic monologue and his use of stream of consciousness. He was married to poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Washington Irving (1783-1859) is an American author best known for his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He is largely considered to be America's first internationally best-selling author.
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711–1780) was the author of Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales. In 1746 she left France for London, where she had successful publishing career. Her version of “Beauty and the Beast” has been retold countless times, both in film and on stage.
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812–1885) was a Norwegian writer and scholar. With the help of his colleague Jørgen Moe, he compiled numerous collections of Norwegian folklore.
Jørgen Moe (1813–1882) was a Norwegian folklorist, bishop, and author. He is best known for the Norske Folkeeventyr, a collection of Norwegian folk tales which he edited in collaboration with Peter Christen Asbjørnsen.
Mother Goose is the imaginary author of several fairy tales and nursery rhymes, often published as Mother Goose Rhymes. Known as the archetypal name for an English country woman, she is typically depicted as elderly woman wearing a tall hat and shawl, or as a goose wearing a bonnet.
Bobbie Frohman, a third generation Californian, was raised in a large extended family, the niece of cowboys. Early on she developed a deep love of animals, training her dogs to perform with her at dog shows, and as a competitive barrel racer with her beloved horse, Lucky.
David Thorn spent his childhood in the Channel Islands off the coast of France, was schooled in England, and then immigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-three. He is retired from international commerce and currently resides in California.
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