Children's Fiction

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by Clive Catterall 4.8
A Yankee student stays at a country house called Tanglewood during a golden New England fall. Also at the house are about a dozen children: …

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum Read by Phil Chenevert 4.8
The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz. As Baum says in the introduction "It aspires to bei…

The Magic World

by E. Nesbit Read by Ruth Golding 4.8
Talking cats, birds, fish and bells, wicked fairies, uglified princesses - adventure, magic, and more magic. A delightful collection of sto…

The Moving Picture Girls

by Laura Lee Hope Read by Cori Samuel 4.5
Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City - times are hard, even for a talented actor like M…

Penrod

by Booth Tarkington Read by Jonathan Burchard 4.5
Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, a…

Under the Lilacs

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
When two young girls decide to have a tea party with their dolls and a mysterious dog comes and eats their prized cake, they end up finding …

Shoes and Stockings

by Louisa May Alcott Read by Carolyn Frances 4.5
Shoes and Stockings is a captivating collection of short stories by Louisa May Alcott, exploring the intricate dance between societal expect…

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting Read by Phil Chenevert 4.7
This is the original book about the amazing Dr. Dolittle who "Besides the gold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rab…

Fame and Fortune

by Horatio Alger, Jr. Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Richard Hunter, formerly Ragged Dick, continues to advance in the world through luck and excellent morals. He, along with his friend Henry, …

Happy Jack

by Thornton W. Burgess Read by Jude Somers 4.6
Who would have thought dropping a nut would cause so much trouble? No sooner does Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel go scampering down the tree t…

The Book of Dragons

by E. Nesbit Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.6
A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses…

The Blue Lagoon

by H. De Vere Stacpoole Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.7
Two shipwrecked children grow up on a South Pacific island. This beautiful story of adventure and innocent love was H.D. Stacpoole’s most po…

Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories

by Thornton W. Burgess Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Thornton W. Burgess was a conservationist and prolific author of children's books. His gently humorous stories about the animals of the mead…

Among the Farmyard People

by Clara Dillingham Pierson Read by Claire Schreuder 4.8
Among the Farmyard People invites young listeners into the charming world of farm life, where a delightful cast of animals share their stori…

Mother West Wind Stories

by Thornton W. Burgess Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Thornton Burgess gives us a collection of stories about the animals, explaining 'when' they got their peculiar traits. As usual the stories…

The Black Fawn

by Jim Kjelgaard Read by Roger Melin 4.7
Bud Sloan was an orphan who had been 'sold out' of the orphanage to work on a farm once he'd been old enough to labor. The farm where he was…

The Five Jars

by M. R. James Read by Peter Yearsley 4.6
The Five Jars is the only novel written by James, who is best known for his ghost stories. It is a peculiarly surreal fantasy apparently wri…

Little Lord Fauntleroy

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This story is about an American lad of 7 years old who lives with his young widowed mother in New York. He spends his days with his friend t…

The Heroes

by Charles Kingsley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonaut…

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel is about orphaned Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle at Misslethwaite Manor …

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