
CHILDHOOD CLASSICS - Ultimate Collection: 1400+ Tales of Magic, Adventure, Fairytales & Legends
A Treasury of 1,400+ Fairy Tales, Fables, Adventures & MagicBy J. M. Barrie, Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, E. Nesbit, Beatrix Potter, Thornton Burgess, Margery Williams, Ruth Stiles Gannett, Howard R. Garis, L. Frank Baum, Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Lofting, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Vishnu Sharma, Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Sharp, Maurice Maeterlinck, Georgette Leblanc, John Ruskin, Carl Sandburg, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Johnny Gruelle, Carlo Collodi, George Haven Putnam, Johanna Spyri, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emerson Hough, Eleanor H. Porter, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Dorothy Canfield, Susan Coolidge, Kenneth Grahame, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Mark Twain, R. L. Stevenson, John Meade Falkner, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Jonathan Swift, Miguel Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna Sewell, Jack London, E. Boyd Smith, Jennie Hall, Howard Pyle, Marion St. John Webb, Jules Verne, Eva March TappanLength780h 41m
About this audiobook
Childhood Classics—Ultimate Collection gathers a vast transnational inheritance of children's literature: fairy tale, animal fantasy, nursery fable, quest romance, school story, moral parable, and adventure narrative. Its more than 1,400 selections range from compact folkloric wonders and comic absurdities to expansive voyages, tales of enchanted transformation, and humane stories of courage and companionship. Canonical fairy-tale traditions stand beside imaginative modern classics, revealing childhood as both a literary audience and a powerful imaginative realm. The contributors represent an extraordinary continuum of storytelling, from Aesop, Vishnu Sharma, Cervantes, Defoe, and Swift to the Grimms, Andersen, Hoffmann, and a rich nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Anglo-American tradition. Folklorists, fabulists, novelists, illustrators, and writers of fantasy collectively reshape inherited oral materials while addressing changing ideas of education, empire, nature, morality, domestic life, and play. Their varied voices illuminate the emergence of children's literature as a distinct yet intellectually capacious field. This volume is especially recommended for readers, students, and families seeking an unparalleled comparative library in a single book. It invites sustained exploration of narrative forms and cultural traditions, while fostering dialogue between ancient fables, European wonder tales, and modern adventures. Its breadth makes it both an educational resource and a lasting source of imaginative pleasure.
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Rating★★★★ 4.5 (13)
Includes Amazon
GenreChildren's Literature
Length780 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 27, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Midnight Folk (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)
22Chapter I. Jenny Wren Arrives.
23Chapter II. The Old Orchard Bully.
24Chapter VI. An Old Friend In a New Home.
25Chapter IX. Longbill and Teeter.
26Chapter X. Redwing and Yellow Wing.
27Chapter XI. Drummers and Carpenters.
28Chapter XII. Some Unlikely Relatives.
29Chapter XV. A Swallow and One Who Isn't.
30Chapter XVII. More Robbers.
31Chapter XX. A Fisherman Robbed.
32Chapter XXI. A Fishing Party.
33Chapter XXII. Some Feathered Diggers.
34Chapter XXIII. Some Big Mouths.
35Chapter XXIV. The Warblers Arrive.
36Chapter XXV. Three Cousins Quite Unlike.
37Chapter XXVI. Peter Gets a Lame Neck.
38Chapter XXIX. The Constant Singers.
39Chapter XXX. Jenny Wren's Cousins.
40Chapter XXXI. Voices of the Dusk.
41Chapter XXXV. A Butcher and a Hummer.
42Chapter XXXVI. A Stranger and a Dandy.
43Chapter XXXVII. Farewells and Welcomes.
44Chapter XL. Some Merry Seed-Eaters.
45Chapter XLIV. More Folks in Red.
46The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess)
47Chapter I Jenny Wren Gives Peter Rabbit an Idea
48Chapter II Peter and Jumper go to School
49Chapter III More of Peter's Long-Legged Cousins
50Chapter IV Chatterer and Happy Jack Join