This is the final book in a six volume set of the "My Bookhouse" books. This final title in the series leaves off the format of the previous volumes and is geared towards the parent or teacher. The major part of the books deals with short biographies of the authors whose works appeared in the previous five volumes. Then follow several interesting sections, some of which include: the History of Mother Goose, The World's Great Epics, and How to Judge Stories for Children.
For the several indexes included in the second half of the book, including a historical index, a geographical index and others, please see the online text linked below. (Summary by Maria Therese)
Chapters
1
Aesop Read by mlcui 6:00
2
Louisa May Alcott and Raymond MacDonald Alden Read by Emily Maynard 20:51
3
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William Almingham and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Read by JoyAtPlay 7:15
4
Hans Christian Andersen and Peter Christen Asbjornsen Read by Carol 21:36
5
Josephine Bacon, Caroline Sherwin Bailey, and P.T. Barnum Read by Michele Fry 46:52
6
Clara Bates, Henry Bennett, Bjornsterne Bjornson, William Blake and Abby Brown Read by Michele Fry 7:52
7
Frances Browne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Read by Michele Fry 13:08
8
William Bryant, Gelett Burgess, Thornton Burgess, and Robert Burns Read by Michele Fry 16:48
9
John Burroughs through Arthur Chapman Read by Michele Fry 19:30
10
Geoffrey Chaucer through Charles Dickens Read by mlcui 14:22
11
Emily Dickinson through Juliana Ewing Read by Michele Fry 13:04
12
Jean Henri Fabre and Georgene Faulkner Read by Larry Wilson 24:42
13
Eugene Field through Kenneth Grahame Read by Larry Wilson 19:39
14
Kate Greenaway through Elizabeth Harrison Read by Michele Fry 12:14
15
Nathaniel Hawthorne through Jean Ingelow Read by Michele Fry 10:17
16
Washington Irving through Joyce Kilmer Read by Larry Wilson 10:25
17
Charles Kingsley through George MacDonald Read by Larry Wilson 13:19
18
Walter de La Mare through James Whitcomb Riley Read by Larry Wilson 16:05
19
Theodore Roosevelt Read by Jill Engle 25:27
20
John Ruskin through Salomon de La Selva Read by Richard Shipp 7:22
21
William Shakespeare Read by Richard Shipp 18:36
22
Percy Shelley through Israel Zangwill Read by Richard Shipp 18:48
23
The Interesting History of Old Mother Goose Read by Michele Fry 17:56
24
The Origin of the Folk Tales Read by mlcui 15:28
25
What is a Myth? Read by Ciel Hinton 9:24
26
The World's Great Epics Read by JoyAtPlay 26:30
27
How to Judge Stories for Children Read by Emily Maynard 36:18
From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org) , the text (opens archive.org) , all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org) .
