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When They Were Children: Stories of the Childhood of Famous Men and Women

Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers

Sketches about the childhood of many famous men and women, written just for children! (11 hr 21 min)

Chapters

About This Book

2:48

Read by Keren Smithies

Saint Augustine

7:19

Read by Keren Smithies

S. Louis of France

11:37

Read by Anita Hibbard

Giotto

9:08

Read by Emily Maynard

S. Catherine of Siena

12:38

Read by De Anna Lee

Jeanne D'Arc

13:00

Read by Emily Maynard

Michael Angelo

10:35

Read by Emily Maynard

Queen Elizabeth

15:51

Read by Seraphina

Mary Queen of Scots

14:24

Read by Stacey Malcolm

Louis XIII

21:49

Read by Rita Boutros

Sir Isaac Newton

10:31

Read by prajak

Samuel Johnson

10:36

Read by De Anna Lee

Frederick the Great

18:28

Read by Wayne Cooke

Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh

23:27

Read by Keren Smithies

George Washington

11:23

Read by Rita Boutros

Goethe

26:08

Read by Rita Boutros

Mozart

14:43

Read by Beeswaxcandle

Horatio Nelson

15:14

Read by Rita Boutros

Arthur, Duke of Wellington

7:16

Read by Weretortoise

Napoleon Bonaparte

14:56

Read by Beeswaxcandle

Sir Walter Scott

17:47

Read by Kazaxat

Elizabeth Fry

10:00

Read by BookBard

George Stephenson

13:28

Read by Marie Christian

Sir John Franklin

25:39

Read by Beau Wood

Hans Andersen

15:48

Read by Weretortoise

Abraham Lincoln

25:11

Read by prajak

Alfred Tennyson

9:52

Read by De Anna Lee

William Makepeace Thackeray

19:38

Read by Keren Smithies

Charles Dickens

22:37

Read by Jonathan Jones

Robert Browning

9:07

Read by Beeswaxcandle

David Livingstone

17:09

Read by Ruth P.

Richard Wagner

16:40

Read by Beeswaxcandle

Jean-Francois Millet

10:50

Read by De Anna Lee

Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters

17:28

Read by Keren Smithies

John Ruskin

13:10

Read by jenno

Queen Victoria

14:27

Read by Ruth P.

George Eliot

11:53

Read by Rita Boutros

Florence Nightingale

10:22

Read by Keren Smithies

Jenny Lind

15:02

Read by Beeswaxcandle

Rosa Bonheur

18:31

Read by BettyB

John Coleridge Patteson

22:13

Read by Stephanie Gish

Sir John Everett Millais

14:56

Read by jenno

Louisa Alcott

17:09

Read by BettyB

Charles George Gordon

11:53

Read by Jonathan Jones

Thomas Alva Edison

8:14

Read by prajak

Robert Louis Stevenson

20:58

Read by Rita Boutros