The Greatest Bed-Time Stories
A Treasury of Fairy Tales, Talking Animals, Fables, and Dreamlike Adventures for ChildrenBy Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, George MacDonald, Jack London, Louisa May Alcott, Laura Lee Hope, Andrew Lang, Maurice Maeterlinck, Johnny Gruelle, Aesop, Hugh Lofting, Anna Sewell, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin, Arthur Ransome, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Georgette Leblanc, Carl Sandburg, Evelyn Sharp, Marion St. John Webb, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, R. Nisbet Bain, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hans Christian Andersen, Vishnu Sharma, Margery Williams, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Howard R. Garis, Brothers Grimm, Thornton Burgess, Valery Carrick, W. R. S. Ralston
Length537h 26m
About this audiobook
The Greatest Bed-Time Stories gathers a capacious international tradition of children's literature: fairy tale, animal fable, nonsense, fantasy, moral parable, adventure, and dream vision. Its range moves from folktale-derived enchantment and talking animals to whimsical miniature worlds and darker, psychologically charged wonder tales. Familiar figures of princesses, tricksters, beasts, dolls, and lost children coexist with memorable voyages and transformations, revealing bedtime reading as both consolation and imaginative education. The contributors represent an unusually broad constellation of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century writers, folklorists, translators, and storytellers, alongside ancient fabulist and Sanskrit narrative traditions. Their work intersects with Romantic medievalism, Victorian fantasy, the literary fairy-tale revival, didactic children's writing, and the emerging modern picture-book sensibility. British, American, continental European, and South Asian inheritances meet here, demonstrating how oral lore was adapted into distinctive literary forms while retaining its ethical, comic, and communal force. Recommended for readers, families, students, and scholars of children's culture, this volume offers more than a convenient treasury of classics. It invites comparison across cultures, genres, and historical moments: between instruction and play, fear and reassurance, domestic intimacy and expansive adventure. Its many voices make bedtime storytelling a rich dialogue about imagination, conduct, childhood, and the enduring pleasure of narrative.
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GenreChildren's Literature
Length537 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Gingerbread Boy and Joyful Jingle Play Stories (Annotated)
2The Greatest Bed-Time Stories
3The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)
4The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (Beatrix Potter)
5The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (Beatrix Potter)
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6The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter)
7The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Thornton Burgess)
8Mother West Wind Series (Thornton Burgess)
9The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Thornton Burgess)
10Chapter I. Jenny Wren Arrives.
11Chapter II. The Old Orchard Bully.
12Chapter VI. An Old Friend In a New Home.
13Chapter IX. Longbill and Teeter.
14Chapter X. Redwing and Yellow Wing.
15Chapter XI. Drummers and Carpenters.
16Chapter XII. Some Unlikely Relatives.
17Chapter XV. A Swallow and One Who Isn't.
18Chapter XVII. More Robbers.
19Chapter XX. A Fisherman Robbed.
20Chapter XXI. A Fishing Party.
21Chapter XXII. Some Feathered Diggers.
22Chapter XXIII. Some Big Mouths.
23Chapter XXIV. The Warblers Arrive.
24Chapter XXV. Three Cousins Quite Unlike.
25Chapter XXVI. Peter Gets a Lame Neck.
26Chapter XXIX. The Constant Singers.
27Chapter XXX. Jenny Wren's Cousins.
28Chapter XXXI. Voices of the Dusk.
29Chapter XXXV. A Butcher and a Hummer.
30Chapter XXXVI. A Stranger and a Dandy.
31Chapter XXXVII. Farewells and Welcomes.
32Chapter XL. Some Merry Seed-Eaters.
33Chapter XLIV. More Folks in Red.
34The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess)
35Chapter I Jenny Wren Gives Peter Rabbit an Idea
36Chapter II Peter and Jumper go to School
37Chapter III More of Peter's Long-Legged Cousins
38Chapter IV Chatterer and Happy Jack Join
39Chapter V The Squirrels of the Trees
40Chapter VI Striped Chipmunk and his Cousins
41Chapter VII Johnny Chuck Joins the Class
42Chapter VIII Whistler and Yap Yap
43Chapter IX Two Queer Little Haymakers
44Chapter X Prickly Porky and Grubby Gopher
45Chapter XI A Fellow With a Thousand Spears
46Chapter XII A Lumberman and Engineer
47Chapter XIII A Worker and a Robber
48Chapter XIV A Trader and a Handsome Fellow
49Chapter XV Two Unlike Little Cousins
50Chapter XVI Danny's Northern Cousins and Nimbleheels
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