Lovely book for children written by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People" series explores the animal inhabitants of a pond. The beautiful writing brings the pond creatures into being in the reader's imagination and allows them a glimpse of the mysterious lives being carried out above and below the water's surface. (Summary by Jill Engle)
Chapters
1
Preface Read by Jill Engle 3:04
2
The Dance of the Sand-hill Cranes Read by Jon Kissack 8:49
3
The Young Minnow Who Would Not Eat When He Should Read by Claire Schreuder 8:17
4
The Stickleback Father Read by Deon Gines 11:05
5
The Careless Caddis Worm Read by Deon Gines 11:35
6
The Tadpole Who Wanted to be Grown Up Read by Deon Gines 12:22
7
The Runaway Water Spiders Read by rookieblue 10:35
8
The Slow Little Mud Turtle Read by Jennifer Dorr 12:18
9
The Dragon-fly Children and the Snapping Turtle Read by Jill Engle 9:00
10
The Snappy Snapping Turtle Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett 13:51
11
The Clever Water-Adder Read by Jon Kissack 8:30
12
The Good Little Cranes Who Were Bad Read by Sharon Kilmer 14:11
13
The Oldest Dragon-fly Nymph Read by Sharon Kilmer 13:24
14
The Eels' Moving-Night Read by Jennifer Dorr 10:41
15
The Crayfish Mother Read by Claire Schreuder 7:56
16
Two Little Crayfishes Quarrel Read by Kathy Wright 8:35
17
The Lucky Mink Read by Kathy Wright 13:05
18
The Playful Muskrats Read by Kathy Wright 11:05
From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org) , the text (opens gutenberg.org) , all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org) .
