The Greatest Classics for Children in One Volume
A Timeless Treasury of Fairy Tales, Adventures, Fables, and Fantasies for Young ReadersBy Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, Johanna Spyri, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, George MacDonald, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Howard Pyle, Jack London, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Andrew Lang, John Meade Falkner, Jonathan Swift, Maurice Maeterlinck, Daniel Defoe, Johnny Gruelle, Aesop, Hugh Lofting, Emerson Hough, George Haven Putnam, Anna Sewell, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin, Kenneth Grahame, Eva March Tappan, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Susan Coolidge, Carlo Collodi, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Georgette Leblanc, Jennie Hall, Carl Sandburg, Ruth Stiles Gannett, Evelyn Sharp, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Marion St. John Webb, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, Eleanor H. Porter, E. Nesbit, E. T. A. Hoffmann, E. Boyd Smith, Hans Christian Andersen, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Vishnu Sharma, Margery Williams, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Dorothy Canfield, Howard R. Garis, Brothers Grimm, Thornton Burgess, R. L. Stevenson, Miguel Cervantes
Length782h 47m
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The Greatest Classics for Children in One Volume surveys the extraordinary breadth of children's literature, joining fairy tale, animal fable, adventure romance, fantasy, moral tale, historical narrative, nonsense, and domestic fiction. From enchanted realms and talking animals to voyages, schoolrooms, and acts of ethical courage, it preserves traditions that have shaped youthful reading across generations. Standout imaginative modes include the wonder tale, the quest narrative, and the playful logic of literary nonsense, while realist and didactic works complicate the collection's vision of childhood. Its contributors represent a transnational canon extending from Aesopic and Sanskrit fable through European folklore and the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century flowering of children's publishing. British, American, French, Italian, Danish, German, and Russian-inflected traditions meet here, bringing together writers associated with Romantic fantasy, Victorian moral instruction, social reform, imperial adventure, and the emergence of modern child-centered storytelling. Their varied cultural inheritances reveal children's literature as both an artistic field and a record of changing assumptions about family, education, nature, class, and imagination. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking a capacious introduction to the classics in conversation with one another. It invites students, families, and scholars alike to compare narrative forms, ethical ideals, and cultural worlds within a single accessible anthology. Rich in pedagogical possibilities and enduring pleasures, it offers an illuminating encounter with the diverse texts that continue to define the literary landscape of childhood.
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GenreChildren's Literature
Length782 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh (Annotated)
2Dragon Tales
3My Father's Dragon (Ruth Stiles Gannett)
4The Reluctant Dragon (Kenneth Grahame)
5The Book of Dragons (E. Nesbit):
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6The Book of Beasts
7Uncle James, or the Purple Stranger
8The Deliverers of Their Country
9The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told
10The Island of the Nine Whirlpools
11The Dragon Tamers
12The Fiery Dragon, or the Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold
13Kind Little Edmund, or the Caves and the Cockatrice
14Animal Tales & Fables
15The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)
16The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (Beatrix Potter)
17The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (Beatrix Potter)
18The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter)
19The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Thornton Burgess)
20Mother West Wind Series (Thornton Burgess)
21The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 1)
22The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 2)
23The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 3)
24The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 4)
25The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 1)
26The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 2)
27The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 3)
28The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) (pt. 4)
29The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams)
30Uncle Wiggily's Adventures & Other Tales (Howard R. Garis):
31Uncle Wiggily's Adventures (pt. 1)
32Uncle Wiggily's Adventures (pt. 2)
33Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard (pt. 1)
34Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard (pt. 2)
35Uncle Wiggily's Squirt Gun
36Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland (pt. 1)
37Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland (pt. 2)
38Uncle Wiggily's Travels (pt. 1)
39Uncle Wiggily's Travels (pt. 2)
40Uncle Wiggily's Fortune (pt. 1)
41Uncle Wiggily's Fortune (pt. 2)
42Uncle Wiggily's Auto Sled
43Uncle Wiggily in the Woods (pt. 1)
44Uncle Wiggily in the Woods (pt. 2)
45Little Bun Rabbit (L. Frank Baum)
46Mother Goose in Prose (L. Frank Baum)
47Introduction
48Sing a Song o' Sixpence
49The Story of Little Boy Blue
50The Cat and the Fiddle
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