I Love Animal Stories
Classic Fables, Fairy Tales, Wilderness Adventures, and Heartwarming Animal Classics for Young ReadersBy Beatrix Potter, Aesop, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Thornton Burgess, Margery Williams, Howard R. Garis, L. Frank Baum, Louisa May Alcott, Anna Sewell, Hugh Lofting, Laura Lee Hope, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Vishnu Sharma, Valery Carrick
Length135h 54m
About this audiobook
I Love Animal Stories gathers fables, fairy tales, adventures, and sentimental animal narratives into a capacious introduction to the ways literature imagines the nonhuman world. Across talking beasts, loyal companions, comic escapades, and wilderness dramas, the volume ranges from ancient moral allegory to nineteenth- and twentieth-century children's classics. Memorable episodes of animal speech, peril, friendship, and transformation reveal how animal stories can entertain while questioning human authority, ethics, and responsibility. Its contributors represent an unusually broad literary inheritance: Aesop and Vishnu Sharma evoke the enduring fable traditions of the Mediterranean and South Asia, while E. T. A. Hoffmann brings the marvels of European Romantic fantasy. Writers associated with Victorian and modern children's literature, domestic fiction, adventure writing, and popular serial storytelling enlarge this foundation. Together, these voices trace changing cultural attitudes toward pets, wild creatures, colonial landscapes, childhood, and humane treatment, making the anthology a useful cross-section of animal literature's moral and imaginative history. Recommended for young readers, families, and students of children's literature alike, this volume offers the rare pleasure of encountering many genres and cultural traditions in one book. Its varied selections invite comparison between fable and realism, comedy and pathos, fantasy and observation. Read closely, the collection becomes both an accessible educational resource and a lively dialogue about companionship, empathy, and humanity's place among animals.
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature
Length135 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 27, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1MOTHER GOOSE'S MENAGERIE (With Original Illustrations) (Annotated)
2The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)
3The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (Beatrix Potter)
4The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (Beatrix Potter)
5The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter)
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6The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Thornton Burgess)
7Mother West Wind Series (Thornton Burgess)
8The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 1)
9The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 2)
10The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 3)
11The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 4)
12The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 1)
13The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 2)
14The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 3)
15The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 4)
16The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams)
17Uncle Wiggily's Adventures & Other Tales (Howard R. Garis):
18Uncle Wiggily's Adventures (pt. 1)
19Uncle Wiggily's Adventures (pt. 2)
20Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard (pt. 1)
21Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard (pt. 2)
22Uncle Wiggily's Squirt Gun
23Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland (pt. 1)
24Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland (pt. 2)
25Uncle Wiggily's Travels (pt. 1)
26Uncle Wiggily's Travels (pt. 2)
27Uncle Wiggily's Fortune (pt. 1)
28Uncle Wiggily's Fortune (pt. 2)
29Uncle Wiggily's Auto Sled
30Uncle Wiggily in the Woods (pt. 1)
31Uncle Wiggily in the Woods (pt. 2)
32Little Bun Rabbit (L. Frank Baum)
33Mother Goose in Prose (L. Frank Baum)
34Introduction
35Sing a Song o' Sixpence
36The Story of Little Boy Blue
37The Cat and the Fiddle
38The Black Sheep
39Old King Cole
40Mistress Mary
41The Wond'rous Wise Man
42What Jack Horner Did
43The Man in the Moon
44The Jolly Miller
45The Little Man and His Little Gun
46Hickory, Dickory, Dock
47Little Bo-Peep
48The Story of Tommy Tucker
49Pussy-cat Mew
50How the Beggars Came to Town
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