Some Favorite Children's Books

The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame
Narrated by: Michael Ward
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camaraderie, and celebrated for its evocation of the... Read more

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Balloons Over Broadway

The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade

By: Melissa Sweet
Narrated by: John McDonough
Length: 15 minutes

A Caldecott Honor Medal recipient and the illustrator of nearly 100 children's books, Melissa Sweet delivers the charming story of Tony Sarg, the man known as ''America's Puppet Master.'' With delightful, rhyming prose, Sweet takes listeners back to the 1920s to meet the designer who created the first helium-filled balloons for Macy's... Read more

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The Long Winter

Little House: Book #6

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Narrated by: Cherry Jones
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

The sixth book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s treasured Little House series, and the recipient of a Newbery Honor.The town of De Smet in the Dakota Territory is hit with terrible blizzards in the hard winter of 1880-81, and the Ingalls family must ration their food and coal. When the supply train doesn’t arrive, all supplies are cut off from the... Read more

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Farmer Boy

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Narrated by: Cherry Jones
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

The second book in the treasured Little House series, Farmer Boy is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved story of how her husband, Almanzo, grew up as a farmer boy far from the little house where Laura lived.The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America’s frontier history and as... Read more

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Little House in the Big Woods

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Narrated by: Cherry Jones
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

The book that started it all! Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series, which is based on her life growing up as an American pioneer.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... Read more

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Little House on the Prairie

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Narrated by: Cherry Jones
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

The third book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series.The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for the big skies of the Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their house.... Read more

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The Hundred Dresses

By: Eleanor Estes
Narrated by: Christina Moore
Length: 54 minutes

Wanda Petronski is different from all the other girls in Room 13. Every day she wears the same faded blue dress to school, and every day she tells about her hundred dresses at home. Her classmates joke about her imaginary clothes - until they learn the wonderful secret of the dresses. Read more

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