A Book on Books: The Ten Stories that have the Answers to almost Everything
By F.H. Gilbert
Length4h 30m
About this audiobook
Some books tell stories. Others quietly reveal truths about life, waiting until you are ready. Many of us meet them too late. We read The Alchemist at forty and wish we had read it at fourteen. We return to The Little Prince or The Giving Tree and realise they explain love in ways we once missed.
A Book of Books exists so children do not have to wait.
It brings together ten timeless works, each presented through its characters, journey, and three clear life lessons drawn from the author’s words. It offers enough insight to spark understanding and enough depth to lead readers to the original texts with open hearts.
Featured titles include The Little Prince, The Alchemist, Siddhartha, The Prophet, and others.
This is not a replacement. It is a doorway.
Written by a parent, it guides children early through ideas many adults spend years discovering. For those still growing, and for those who never stopped.
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature
Length4 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1© 2026 F. H. Gilbert
40Mary arrives at Misselthwaite Manor in the dark.
2A note from the author
41Father and son look at each other across the garden.
3And then I read The Alchemist.
42Three life lessons
4THE LITTLE PRINCE
43SIDDHARTHA
5Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
44Hermann Hesse
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6The Rose
45Govinda
7The Fox
46And yet.
8Please. Draw me a sheep.
47Kamala
9THE ALCHEMIST
48Kamaswami
10Paulo Coelho
49Vasudeva — The Ferryman
11Santiago
50The River
12Melchizedek — The King of Salem
51The journey
13The Alchemist
52Siddhartha sits by the river.
14The journey
53Three life lessons
15Three life lessons
54THE TAO OF POOH
16Because in that moment, everything reverses.
55Benjamin Hoff
17THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE
56Winnie-the-Pooh
18Ages: 6 and above — and every age above that, without exception
57Piglet
19The Mole
58Owl
20The Fox
59Rabbit
21The Horse
60The journey
22The journey
61Three life lessons
23Three life lessons
62THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
24Three words. And yet.
63Margery Williams
25JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL
64The Skin Horse
26Richard Bach
65The Boy
27The Flock
66The Nursery Magic Fairy
28Chiang — The Elder Gull
67Then the fever.
29Three life lessons
68Three life lessons
30THE PROPHET
69THE GIVING TREE
31Kahlil Gibran
70Shel Silverstein
32The journey
71The Tree
33Three life lessons
72The Boy
34THE SECRET GARDEN
73The Stump
35Theme: Healing, the power of attention, and nature as the oldest teacher
74Three life lessons
36Colin Craven
75Ten books. Ten gifts. One reader.
37And something begins.
76Then wait.
38Dickon Sowerby
77And they will last.
39The Robin
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