Soap Bubble Stories
Fanny Barry
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Have you ever watched a soap bubble drifting up on the air, sparkling and lovely? These lovely stories for children are of many lengths and varied styles but all beautifully crafted, just like the soap bubbles we blow and enjoy watching our children blow. Unlike soap bubbles however, these stories can be enjoyed over and over again by children of all ages. The style is indeed a bit old, but fairy tales should be kind of timeless, shouldn't they?
"All the afternoon the children, pipe in hand, with soap suds before them, had been blowing airy bubbles that caught the gleams of a hundred flying rainbows—but now in the fading daylight, the pipes were put aside, and they threw themselves down on the fur rug, and looked with thoughtful eyes into the caverns of the fire.
"What can we do now?" they cried, "Won't you make us some bubbles?"
And someone sitting in the shadow, who had watched and admired their handiwork, whipped up some white froth in a fairy basin, and taking a pipe, she blew them some bubbles.
Not so beautiful as the children's own, with their pure reflections of the light and sunshine—but the best she could fashion with the materials she had at hand; for the only soap she could find was Imagination, and her pipe was a humble black pen." - Summary by phil chenevert and the author (5 hr 4 min)
Chapters
THE TROLL IN THE CHURCH FOUNTAIN | 12:55 | Read by Owlivia |
THE IMP IN THE CHINTZ CURTAIN | 13:11 | Read by Lily |
HEARTSEASE | 8:31 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
A STORY OF SIENA | 21:24 | Read by ToddHW |
THE STONE-MAIDEN | 10:06 | Read by Asha |
THE GRASS OF PARNASSUS | 4:05 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
THE HEDGEHOGS' COFFEE PARTY | 16:40 | Read by Alix Grace |
UNCLE VOLODIA - A story of a Russian Village | 38:34 | Read by weezer |
THE ANGEL AND THE LILIES | 7:39 | Read by Simona Perego |
THE ALPEN-ECHO | 5:15 | Read by Andrew Gaunce |
THE SCROLL IN THE MARKET PLACE | 9:19 | Read by weezer |
A SCRAP OF ETRUSCAN POTTERY | 8:42 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
THE GOATS ON THE GLACIER | 33:26 | Read by mleigh |
THE GREAT LADY'S CHIEF-MOURNER | 5:39 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
DAME FOSSIE'S CHINA DOG | 29:51 | Read by T.Honcharyk |
PRINCESS SIDIGUNDA'S GOLDEN SHOES | 24:46 | Read by mleigh |
THE BADGER'S SCHOOL or The Adventures of a Bear Family | 30:27 | Read by TomGroff |
BOBBIE'S TWO SHILLINGS - A Guinea-Pig Story. | 23:40 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |