A Child's Garden of Verses

Little House in the Big Woods: Little House, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Narrated By Cherry Jones
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Told from four-year-old Laura's point of view, this story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura lives in the little house with her pa, her ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard for the family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But it is also exciting as Laura and her family celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and make their first trip into town.

Charlotte's Web

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 29 mins)
• By E.B. White
• Narrated By E.B. White, George Plimpton
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Since its publication in 1952, Charlotte's Web has become one of America's best-loved children's books. For fifty years, this timeless story of the pig named Wilbur and the wise spider named Charlotte who saved him has continued to warm the hearts of readers everywhere. This 1953 Newbery Honor Book comes to life in a delightful unabridged recording, read lovingly by the author himself.

Peter Pan

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 51 mins)
• By J. M. Barrie
• Narrated By Lily Collins
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There are few characters in literature more iconic than J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Originally introduced in 1902 in another Barrie novel (The Little White Bird), Peter's story was expanded as a standalone novel in 1911 and since then has been memorably adapted for the movies, for television, and for stage.

Now, actress Lily Collins (The Blind Side, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones) brings new, youthful energy to Peter's magical adventures.

The Black Star of Kingston

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 9 mins)
• By S. D. Smith
• Narrated By Eric Fritzius
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A century before Heather and Picket's adventures in The Green Ember, a displaced community fights for hope on the ragged edge of survival. Whitson Mariner and Fleck Blackstar face old fears and new enemies, forging a legend that will echo through the ages.

Winnie-the-Pooh: A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics, Volume 1

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 46 mins)
• By A. A. Milne
• Narrated By Peter Dennis

Come with us to an Enchanted Place, a forest where Winnie-the-Pooh lived with Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, Kanga, and Little Roo. The stories are about Christopher Robin and these good companions having wonderful times getting in and out of trouble. It is all very exciting and, really, quite thrilling no matter how young or old you may be. It is painful to try and imagine what the world would be like without them.

The Enchanted Castle

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Edith Nesbit
• Narrated By Johanna Ward
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Jimmy, Gerald, and Cathy discover an enchanted garden and wake a beautiful princess from a hundred-year-sleep - only to have her immediately made invisible by a magic ring. The quest to rescue her from her own magic proves difficult, humorous, and at times very frightening.

Stuart Little

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 55 mins)
• By E.B. White
• Narrated By Julie Harris
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This charming little tale, with a gigantic heart, was written by E.B. White, best-known for the perennial favorite Charlotte's Web.

Happy Little Family: Fairchild Family Story

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 31 mins)
• By Rebecca Caudill
• Narrated By Mary Sarah

It is a good thing that mothers understand what no one else seems to when you are the youngest child in the family, and are finally four years old. Bonnie is more than ready to join her older sisters and brother in the many adventures she sees come their way, whether it be sliding along the ice, searching for arrowheads, or going on that journey of all journeys-across the swinging bridge to school.

A Child's History of the World

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 55 mins)
• By V. M. Hillyer
• Narrated By Jason Damron
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One of the finest history books for children, this well-loved Hillyer classic features stories of world history from prehistoric man through the 20th century, inspiring an appreciation of how events relate to one another.

The Wind in the Willows

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Kenneth Grahame
• Narrated By Michael Hordern
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Here is a timeless tale of waterside Britain that has been loved by generations of children and acclaimed as a classic. The story of Mole, Ratty, Badger, and Toad, and their escapades, whether messing about on the river or poop-pooping in Toad's shiny new car, cannot fail to enchant.

Treasure Island

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Robert Louis Stevenson
• Narrated By David Ian Davies
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The excitement, adventure, and magical sense of time and place, outraying from the heart of Robert Louis Stevenson's 18th-century pirate tale, is captured in all its glory by actor David Ian Davies in this new One Voice Recordings release. Be swept away by the story of young Jim Hawkins, caught up in his journey to the Caribbean islands upon a ship with a memorable and explosive crew, and led by the cryptic map from a Dead Man's Chest.

Black Beauty

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Anna Sewell
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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In this classic story, set in Victorian England, a well-born colt tells his life story, from his early years in a pleasant meadow to his experiences as an elegant carriage horse and then an overworked cab horse. As he passes from one owner to another, some gentle, some cruel, Black Beauty tells a moving tale of an animal's perspective on the human world.

Matilda

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Roald Dahl
• Narrated By Kate Winslet
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"The Trunchbull" is no match for Matilda! Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It'll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves and Matilda may be just the one to do it!

The Trumpet of the Swan

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 20 mins)
• By E.B. White
• Narrated By E.B. White

Louis is a Trumpeter Swan, but he has no voice. Leaving his wild and beautiful home, he finds a young human friend, Sam Beaver, who helps him learn to read and write. When he returns to the lake, Louis discovers his education isn't enough: the beautiful swan he loves, Serena, can't read his declarations of love, and he can't trumpet them. Louis' resolution to win the swan of his desire launches him on an adventure that will take him far from home and lead where fate and love have a few surprises in store.

The Cricket in Times Square

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 38 mins)
• By George Selden
• Narrated By Tony Shalhoub
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Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he'd seen it all. But he's never met a cricket before, which really isn't surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City - the Times Square subway station.

The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Sally Lloyd-Jones
• Narrated By David Suchet
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In The Jesus Storybook Bible, every story whispers his name. It tells the story beneath all the stories in the Bible.

Paddle-to-the-Sea

• UNABRIDGED (59 mins)
• By Holling Clancy Holling
• Narrated By Terry Bregy

A young Indian boy from Nipigon country in the Canadian wilderness carves a twelve-inch canoe with a kneeling Indian figure and frees it to undertake a journey to the Atlantic Ocean in his place. He must stay home and help his father, but yearns to learn about the world beyond his life in the village.

Parables from Nature, Complete Set

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Margaret Gatty
• Narrated By David Thorn, Bobbie Frohman

Entertaining stories of nature with a moral lesson thrown in for good measure are fun as well as thought provoking. Children will be enthralled with the intimate look into the lives of the woodland creatures and their way of life. Subtleness in making a moral point is always a strength in Ms. Gatty’s stories.