Children's Non-fiction

The Story of Napoleon

Read by Patrick Saville


Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall


This book gives an exciting account of Napoleon's rise to power. It opens with his humble beginning on the island of Corsica and ultimately …

This Country of Ours, Part 7

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall


Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with acco…

Philosophy and Fun of Algebra

Read by Patricia Oakley


Mary Everest Boole


Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) was born Mary Everest in England and spent her early years in France. She married mathematician George Boole.…

A Book of Discovery

Read by Kristine Bekere


M. B. Synge


Telling the history of geographical discoveries, "Book of Discovery" is a record of splendid endurance, of hardships bravely borne…

The Elder Edda (Bray Translation)

Read by Expatriate


Sæmund Sigfusson


The Elder or Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems dating from the thirteenth century CE. Though no two translators or editors seem…

Discoverers and Explorers

Read by Laura Caldwell


Edward R. Shaw


Tales of the brave and daring explorers that ventured into the unknown "Sea of Darkness" where it was thought monsters and angry g…

The Story of the Romans

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H. A. Guerber


A collection of short stories and histories of Rome, from its beginning to its end. (Ann Boulais)

Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers

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J. Walker McSpadden


These 12 stories give a personal portrait of twelve famous soldiers from the past two centuries. Each story explores the early life of the s…

By Pond and River

Read by Laura Caldwell


Arabella B. Buckley


In By Pond and River, another of Arabella Buckley's wonderful science books for children, she explains the habitats of ponds and rivers, exp…

A Young Girl's Diary

Read by KHand


Anonymoustranslated Bycedar Paul


The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her life between the ages of eleven and fourteen. It's a coming of age…

The Autobiography of an Electron

Read by Laura Victoria


Charles R. Gibson


"While many scientific men now understand our place in the universe, we electrons are anxious that every person should know the very im…

Kari the Elephant

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Dhan Gopal Mukerji


The adventures of an Indian boy and his beloved elephant. Born near Calcutta, Mukerji won the Newbury Medal for children's fiction. (Summary…

Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers

Read by Laura Caldwell


John Burroughs


Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers, a collection of essays by American naturalist and essayist, John Burroughs, provides fascinating insight in…

True Stories from History and Biography

Read by Susan Morin


Nathaniel Hawthorne


In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such…

Our Young Folks' Plutarch

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Rosalie Kaufman


Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch, Rosalie…

The Adventures of a Grain of Dust

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Hallam Hawksworth


This charming book for children is full of interesting facts about all sorts of plants, insects, birds and animals and how they all help to …

Indian Boyhood

Read by Carol Pelster


Charles Alexander Eastman


Indian Boyhood is a lively and appealing first-person recounting of the life of a Sioux child in the last days of the tribe's "wild&quo…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 016

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E. Nesbitt and Charles Dickens


LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 016: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Historical Tales, Vol III: Spanish American

Read by Kalynda


Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews


Volume III of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This third volume covers …

Boy Scouts Handbook

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Boy Scouts Of America


The Boy Scouts of America was founded over a hundred years ago to serve the young men of the United States of America and give them the same…

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