The Wonderful Land of Bed-Time Stories
Classic Fairy Tales, Animal Adventures, Moral Fables, and Enchanted Bedtime FavoritesBy Beatrix Potter, L. Frank Baum, Louisa May Alcott, Thornton Burgess, Margery Williams, Howard R. Garis, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Anna Sewell, Hugh Lofting, Laura Lee Hope, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Vishnu Sharma, Aesop, Valery Carrick, Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, J. M. Barrie, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Sharp, Maurice Maeterlinck, Georgette Leblanc, John Ruskin, Carl Sandburg, Marion St. John Webb, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Johnny Gruelle, R. Nisbet Bain, W. R. S. Ralston, Arthur Ransome
Length537h 16m
About this audiobook
The Wonderful Land of Bed-Time Stories gathers a capacious international tradition of children's literature, fable, fairy tale, animal story, fantasy, and moral adventure. Its range extends from concise apologues and wonder tales to dreamlike quests, nursery whimsy, and emotionally resonant narratives of companionship and courage. Familiar figures of enchanted forests, talking animals, improbable journeys, and domestic play coexist with darker folklore and comic nonsense, revealing bedtime reading as a literary space where delight, instruction, and imaginative freedom meet. Standout modes include the beast fable, the portal fantasy, and the fairy-tale transformation. The contributors represent an extraordinary historical and cultural span: classical fabulists, South Asian wisdom traditions, European folktale collectors and adapters, Victorian fantasists, and major British and American writers of children's fiction. Together, their work reflects the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century flourishing of children's literature as a distinct artistic field, while preserving older oral, mythic, and didactic inheritances. These varied voices illuminate changing ideas of childhood, nature, morality, play, and social belonging. This volume is recommended for readers seeking both pleasure and perspective. It offers an inviting education in the forms and histories of children's storytelling, allowing readers to compare styles, cultural assumptions, and narrative devices within a single collection. Its rich internal dialogue makes it valuable for families, students, and scholars alike.
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Rating★★★★ 4.4 (165)
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GenreChildren's Literature
Length537 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 27, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Gingerbread Boy and Joyful Jingle Play Stories (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)
9Chapter I. Jenny Wren Arrives.
10Chapter II. The Old Orchard Bully.
11Chapter VI. An Old Friend In a New Home.
12Chapter IX. Longbill and Teeter.
13Chapter X. Redwing and Yellow Wing.
14Chapter XI. Drummers and Carpenters.
15Chapter XII. Some Unlikely Relatives.
16Chapter XV. A Swallow and One Who Isn't.
17Chapter XVII. More Robbers.
18Chapter XX. A Fisherman Robbed.
19Chapter XXI. A Fishing Party.
20Chapter XXII. Some Feathered Diggers.
21Chapter XXIII. Some Big Mouths.
22Chapter XXIV. The Warblers Arrive.
23Chapter XXV. Three Cousins Quite Unlike.
24Chapter XXVI. Peter Gets a Lame Neck.
25Chapter XXIX. The Constant Singers.
26Chapter XXX. Jenny Wren's Cousins.
27Chapter XXXI. Voices of the Dusk.
28Chapter XXXV. A Butcher and a Hummer.
29Chapter XXXVI. A Stranger and a Dandy.
30Chapter XXXVII. Farewells and Welcomes.
31Chapter XL. Some Merry Seed-Eaters.
32Chapter XLIV. More Folks in Red.
33The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess)
34Chapter I Jenny Wren Gives Peter Rabbit an Idea
35Chapter II Peter and Jumper go to School
36Chapter III More of Peter's Long-Legged Cousins
37Chapter IV Chatterer and Happy Jack Join
38Chapter V The Squirrels of the Trees
39Chapter VI Striped Chipmunk and his Cousins
40Chapter VII Johnny Chuck Joins the Class
41Chapter VIII Whistler and Yap Yap
42Chapter IX Two Queer Little Haymakers
43Chapter X Prickly Porky and Grubby Gopher
44Chapter XI A Fellow With a Thousand Spears
45Chapter XII A Lumberman and Engineer
46Chapter XIII A Worker and a Robber
47Chapter XIV A Trader and a Handsome Fellow
48Chapter XV Two Unlike Little Cousins
49Chapter XVI Danny's Northern Cousins and Nimbleheels
50Chapter XVII Three Little Redcoats and Some Others
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