Bedtime Classics Library

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A collection of folk tales mostly centered around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as either a spider, a human or a combination of both. Author: William H. Barker Length: 2 hours 35 minutes Genre: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 03:39 - Chapter 2 06:34 - Chapter 3 10:52 -...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A collection of traditional English fairy tales. (description by Joy Chan). Author: Joseph Jacobs Length: 5 hours 35 minutes Genre: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 09:28 - Chapter 2 20:47 - Chapter 3 29:37 - Chapter 4 36:34 - Chapter 5 41:56 - Chapter 6 46:52 - Chapter 7 54:56 - Chapter 8 01:06:38 - Chapter 9 01:11:21 - Chap...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fairy dust, and flight; mermaid lagoons, ticking crocodiles, and Princess Tiger Lily; second to the right and then straight on till morning. Author: J. M. Barrie Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com "Being a collection of some of the OLD TALES told in those Western Parts of Britain served by the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, now retold by LYONESSE" (from the subtitle; Lyonesse was the pseudonym for George Basil Barham). Author: Lyonesse Length: 2 hours 12 minutes Genre: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 05:54 - Chapter 2 10:48 -...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This recording of Peter Newell's The Slant Book (1910) kicks off voiced renderings by LibriVox of public domain books in the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL). The ICDL book can be found at: <a href="http://www. Author: Peter Newell Length: 9 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure #FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #Adve...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, this book details the escape from Civil War-era Richmond, Virginia, of five Northern men who dared to go aloft in a balloon in the midst of a hurricane. Deposited on a lonely island in the Pacific, they make do with Yankee ingenuity where Chance has left them nothing. Author...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books, including <u>The Jungle Book</u>, <u>Just So Stories</u>, and <u>Puck of Pook's Hill</u>; his novel, <u>Kim</u>; his poems, including "Mandalay", "Gung...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language source...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to grant one wish of theirs per day. Author: E. Nesbit Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Genre: Action & Adventur...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. Author: Hugh Lofting Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 01:53 - Chapter 2 08:42 -...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Edith Nesbit's classic story, in which three children, pulled suddenly from their comfortable suburban life, move to the country with their mother, where they come to know and love the ways of the railways. (Summary by Karen Savage). Author: E. Nesbit Length: 5 hours 1 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 20:19 - Chapter 2 4...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The <i>Just So Stories for Little Children</i>, first published in 1902, were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are a collection of fantastic stories, typically about how various animals came to be the way they are today. Author: Rudyard Kipling Length: 3 hours 33 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction, Short Stories Chapters: 00:00...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is the story of the Bastable children and their attempts to help the family finances by searching for treasure. (Summary by Karen Savage). Author: E. Nesbit Length: 4 hours 9 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 11:36 - Chapter 2 22:16 - Chapter 3 39:51 - Chapter 4 49:55 - Chapter 5 01:00:26 - Chapter 6 01:13:32 - Chapt...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays "the right stuff" and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to leave. Cut off from the comforts and companionship of other humans, they use a familiarity with natural history and biology to find the resour...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com <i>The Five Little Peppers</i> series was created by Margaret Sidney covering the life of five children with the surname Pepper. The Pepper children were very poor, and their widowed mother was left to raise them by herself. Author: Margaret Sidney Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 13:26 - Chapte...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic children's novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can't help but love. Despite her "tragical" past, Anne's optimism and imagination have helped her to always see the best in things. Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction, Ge...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A fairy has become bored with her life, and convinces some young girls to transform her into a human boy so she can go on adventures. The adventures come fast and furious, as the newly-named Prince Marvel explores the surrounding kingdoms. Author: L. Frank Baum Length: 4 hours 42 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales Ch...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Story Girl, by Anne of Green Gables author L. M. Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Genre: Family Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 19:25 - Chapter 2 32:20 - Chapter 3 53:57 - Chapter 4 01:10:50 - Chapter 5 01:30:22 - Chapter 6 01:45:51 - Chapter 7 02:04:20 - Chapter 8 02:23:49 - Chapter 9 02:36:24 - Chapter 10 02:54:40 - Chapter 11 0...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com In <em>The Story of Doctor Dolittle</em> (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal languages. His fame in the animal kingdom spreads throughout the world and soon he sets off to cure a monkey epidemic in Africa,...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic children's novel, <em>Anne of Green Gables</em> tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can't help but love. Despite her "tragical" past, Anne's optimism and imagination have helped her to always see the best in things. Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Genre: Ch...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of fairy tales includes many of the world's best known stories. In these dark foreboding woods, you will find: Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, Lily and the Lion (better known as Beauty and the Beast), and...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com 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 on Uncle Henry's farm in Kansas when she tries to help a shaggy stranger find the road he is seeking. Author: L. Frank Baum Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 20:14...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Plenty of princesses have been cursed by wicked witches, but the curse placed on this princess by her evil aunt is an unusual one: it removes all the princess's gravity. What can break the curse before the princess floats away. Author: George MacDonald Length: 1 hours 44 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 02:03 - Chapter 2 06:...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of from six to sixteen years of age. (summary from book introduction) This collection consists of Volume 1 of The Junior Classics, and it contain...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Sky Island (1912) was the second of three titles written by Baum featuring a spunky girl from California, Trot, and her companion, the old sailorman, Cap'n Bill. Baum had hoped to end the Oz series in 1910 and the following year he introduced Trot and Cap'n Bill in The Sea Fairies. Author: L. Frank Baum Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Genre: Action & Adv...