Length2h 36m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "There was once a boy named Billy, who spent a summer in the woods with Somebody. Somebody had expected to have a wonderful time telling him stories; but it turned out that the boy named Billy did not care for made up stories. He would listen, if they were sufficiently exciting, but even stories of wolves and bears and tigers were not very much worth while unless they were really so. He wanted to know about the beginning of things, and what certain days meant, and who started customs, and ever and ever so many things that you'd never suppose a small boy would be interested in. So, I've been wondering if there are not many boys like Billy who, also, like to know about things that are really so. And so, I've written down a good many of the things Somebody and the boy named Billy talked about after the lights were out and the fireflies came, during that wonderful summer in the north woods."
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, Children's Literature
Length2 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 30, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Boy named Billy
22About Forks
2How the New Year knows when to come
23About Silk
3About the Telegraph
24All we know about Strawberries
4How the Military Salute came
25Children’s Day
5Candlemas Day
26About Carrier Pigeons
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6Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
27About Coal
7About Valentines
28Flag Day REVOLUTIONARY FLAGS USED BEFORE THE ADOPTION OF THE STARS AND STRIPES
8Why we celebrate George Washington’s Birthday
29The Sea-gull Monument
9About Boy Scouts
30Fourth of July
10Saint Patrick’s Day
31Mr. Irish Potato
11Lent
32Old Abe, the Wisconsin War-Eagle
12Palm Sunday
33About Clocks
13The Story of the Bible
34About Cotton
14Good Friday
35About Coral
15About Easter
36The Star-spangled Banner FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
16Trailing Arbutus or Mayflower
37About Umbrellas
17About Pearls
38Hallowe’en
18About Mr. & Mrs. Pelican
39About Wolves
19Indian Day
40How Thanksgiving came
20About Hats
41Christmas!
21Mother’s Day
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