The Junior Classics Volume 9: Stories of To-day
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William Patten
The first part of this volume consists of stories by modern writers dealing mainly with life in our own day. They are, of course, meant for the older children, and both the style and the situations call for more maturity on the part of the reader. The lure of the extraordinary is now dispensed with, and instead these tales supply the interest that comes from recognizable truth to experience.
The list of fiction contained in this volume, representing the imaginative product of almost all races and times, is fitly closed by the gift made to the children of England of a story for themselves by the master of English novelists, William Makepeace Thackeray.
- Summary by William Patten (15 hr 9 min)
Chapters
A Story of Decoration Day for the Little Children of To-day by Elizabeth Harris…
13:10
Read by Lola Janie
II. How King Valoroso Got the Crown, and Prince Giglio Went Without
9:05
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
III. Tells Who the Fairy Blackstick Was, and Who Were Ever So Many Grand Person…
11:53
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
IV. How Blackstick Was Not Asked to the Princess Angelica’s Christening
6:34
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
VIII. How Gruffanuff Picked the Fairy Ring Up, and Prince Bulbo Came to Court
17:37
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
XIII. How Queen Rosalba Came to the Castle of the Bold Count Hogginarmo
10:22
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson