Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
The Secret Garden
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mary Lennox is a spoiled, middle-class, self-centered child who has been recently orphaned. She is accepted into the quiet and remote countr…
Poems Every Child Should Know
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Variousandmary E. Burt
This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lo…
Caedmon's Hymn
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Caedmon
Cædmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (657–681). Originally ignorant of the art o…
A Little Princess
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The novel tells of the troubles of a wealthy young girl, Sara Crewe, who is sent to an oppressive London boarding school during her father’s…
Der Struwwelpeter
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Heinrich Hoffmann
Der Struwwelpeter, zuerst erschienen als “Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder mit 15 schön kolorierten Tafeln für Kinder von 3…
Johnny Crow's Garden
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
L. Leslie Brooke
A beautifully illustrated children's picture book featuring Johnny Crow who made a garden in which a variety of animals do bizarre things in…
Our Island Story, Part 1
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles…
Our Island Story, Part 2
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles…
The Golden Goose Book
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
L. Leslie Brooke
A charming little book full of the most gorgeous illustrations which can be viewed along with the Gutenberg text at http://www.gutenberg.org…
The Road to Oz
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
L. Frank Baum
The Road to Oz takes Dorothy and her friends on an adventure in Oz to a grand party in honor of Ozma's birthday. It all starts near her home…
Heidi
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Johanna Spyri
Hear Heidi if you’ve ever longed to see the Swiss mountain slopes. This story transports the listener from the fine air and freedom of the m…
Johnny Crow’s Party
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
L. Leslie Brooke
A beautifully illustrated children’s picture book. Listen to the narration while you view (on gutenberg.org) a variety of delightful animals…
The Story of the Middle Ages
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Samuel B. Harding
Intended for a youthful audience, The Story of the Middle Ages, published in 1906, tells the history of the Middle Ages in simple and entert…
More William
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Richmal Crompton
The second of Crompton's series of 39 books about William Brown, our cheeky 11 year-old protagonist. A hero to some, a dastardly villain to …
A Room with a View
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
E. M. Forster
When Lucy Honeychurch travels to Italy with her cousin, she meets George Emerson, a bohemian and an atheist who falls in love with her. Upon…
Just So Stories (version 2)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Rudyard Kipling
The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So S…
Helen's Babies
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
John Habberton
In this hilarious novel, Harry Burton, a bachelor white-goods salesman, goes to take care of his sister Helen's two little boys for ten days…
This Country of Ours, Part 1
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with acco…
The Book of Art for Young People
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Agnes Ethel Conway
This is a charming book on Art History for children (and everyone else). Each chapter focuses on a great painting, reproduced in color in th…
When Mother Lets Us Cook
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Constance Johnson
A book of simple receipts for little folk with important cooking rules in rhyme together with handy lists of the materials and utensils need…
The Adventures of Sally
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
P. G. Wodehouse
This romantic comedy stars a young American girl named Sally, who inherits a considerable fortune and finds her life turned upside down. The…
This Country of Ours, Part 2
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with acco…
This Country of Ours, Part 3
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall's book of stories from the history of the United States begins with acco…
The Swiss Family Robinson (Version 2)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Johann David Wyss
First published in 1812, The Swiss Family Robinson may sometimes seem old-fashioned to modern readers, especially the family’s attitude towa…
This Country of Ours, Part 4
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with acco…
A Day at the County Fair
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Alice Hale Burnett
Three little friends are taken to the County Fair in Uncle Billy's motorcar, but a slight delay occurs on the way. How they finally arrived …
Christmas Holidays at Merryvale
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Alice Hale Burnett
“Toad” Brown, his brother, and their friends have a jolly time at the Christmas holidays. They daydream at a toy shop window, chop down a Ch…
This Country of Ours, Part 5
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with acco…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 2)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculi…
Through the Looking-Glass (version 4)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Lewis Carroll
In this sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Alice is playing with her kittens — a black kitten and a white kitten, the o…
This Country of Ours, Part 6
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with acco…
Grammar-Land
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
M. L. Nesbitt
In this charming 1877 book of grammar instruction for children, we are introduced to the nine parts of speech and learn about the rules that…
My Very First Little German Book
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
William James Mcglothlin
An adorable picture book with 29 little lessons in German. Learn many simple phrases, such as "How big the sea is!" and "Have…
Stories of Great Composers for Children
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Thomas Tapper
This is a collection of ten short, entertaining, informative picture-book biographies of famous composers. Each book tells about the childho…
Makers of Many Things
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Eva March Tappan
How are friction matches made? How do rags and trees become paper? Who makes the dishes on our tables? Published in 1916, this children's bo…
The Girl on the Boat
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
P. G. Wodehouse
Also published as "Three Men and a Maid". The maid of the title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina "Billie" Bennet, an…
Kayray's Storytime
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Various
A collection of my favorite short children's stories and rhymes. Each book can be found online at Gutenberg.org if you wish to look at the w…
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Gene Sharp
From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dict…
Just William (version 2)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Richmal Crompton
Just William is the first book of hilarious short stories about 11-year-old William Brown -- eternally scruffy and frowning. William's famil…
A Christmas Carol (version 06)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Charles Dickens
The tale begins on a Christmas Eve exactly seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner. Scrooge has no place in his l…
This Country of Ours, Part 7
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with acco…
Treasure Island (version 5)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Traditionally considered a coming-of-age s…
Dracula (version 3)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Bram Stoker
Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania …
The Railway Children (version 3)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
E. Nesbit
When their father mysteriously goes away, three children and their story-writing mother leave their comfortable life in London and move to a…
The Great Gatsby
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the eff…