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The Junior Classics Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories

Various and William Patten (1868 - 1936)

The eighth book in the Junior Classics Series is an anthology of collected animal and nature tales designed to appeal to the young and young at heart. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)

Genre(s): Animals & Nature

Language: English

Group: The Junior Classics

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	01 -Little Cyclone: The Story of a Grizzly Cub, W. T. Hornaday	Lynne T	00:05:11
Play 02	02 - Some True Stories, of Tigers, Wolves, Foxes, and Bears, W. H. G. Kingston	Arnold	00:39:11
Play 03	03 - Some Animal Friends in Africa, Bayard Taylor	Sharon Kilmer	00:18:30
Play 04	04 - My Fight with a Catamount, Allen French	Tom Merritt	00:40:30
Play 05	05 - In Canada with a Lynx, Roe L. Hendrick	Tom Merritt	00:24:55
Play 06	06 - Solomon's Grouch: The Story of a Bear, Franklin W. Calkins	Arnold	00:26:10
Play 07	07 - A Droll Fox-Trap, C. A. Stephens	Arnold	00:23:56
Play 08	08 - The Horse That Aroused the Town, Lillian M. Gask	Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)	00:11:01
Play 09	09 - What Ginger Told Black Beauty, Anna Sewell	Lynne T	00:08:53
Play 10	10 - Some True Stories of Horses and Donkeys, W. H. G. Kingston	Arnie Horton	00:30:00
Play 11	11 - "Old Mustard": A Tale of the Western Pioneers, E. W. Frentz	Sharon Kilmer	00:09:16
Play 12	12 - Carlo, the Soldiers' Dog, Rush C. Hawkins	Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)	00:25:56
Play 13	13 - A Brave Dog, Sir Samuel W. Baker	Lee Smalley	00:29:15
Play 14	14 - Uncle Dick's Rolf, Georgiana M. Craik	Lee Smalley	00:24:21
Play 15	15 - Scrap, Lucia Chamberlain	Lynne T	00:13:45
Play 16	16 - A Fire-Fighter's Dog, Arthur Quiller-Couch	David Lawrence	00:07:02
Play 17	17 - Plato: The Story of a Cat, A. S. Downs	Sharon Kilmer	00:15:46
Play 18	18 - Peter: A Cat O' One Tail, Charles Morley	Lynne T	00:42:49
Play 19	19 - Jeff the Inquisitive, Rush C. Hawkins	Sheila Wood	00:20:12
Play 20	20 - The Impudent Guinea-Pig, Charles F. Lummis	Bill Mosley	00:20:00
Play 21	21 - Hard to Hit, Ernest Ingersoll	Lynne T	00:06:29
Play 22	22 - That Sly Old Woodchuck, William O. Stoddard	Greg Giordano	00:25:56
Play 23	23 - The Faithful Little Lizard, W. Hill James	Bill Mosley	00:15:57
Play 24	24 - Toby the Wise, Rush C. Hawkins	Melora	00:18:36
Play 25	25 - Blackamoor, Ruth Landseer	Melora	00:28:19
Play 26	26 - A Parrot That Had Been Trained to Fire a Cannon,Sir Samuel W. Baker	Chessie Joy	00:09:21
Play 27	27 - The Sandpiper's Trick, Celia Thaxter	Sharon Kilmer	00:12:22
Play 28	28 - How Did the Canary Do It?, Celia Thaxter	Sharon Kilmer	00:15:52
Play 29	29 - A Runaway Whale, Capt. O. G. Fosdick	readread	00:29:53
Play 30	30 - Saved by a Seal, Theodore A. Cutting	Lucretia Bell	00:30:23
Play 31	31 - Old Muskie the Rogue, Levi T. Pennington	Arnold	00:48:01
Play 32	32 - Teaching Fish to Ring Bells, C. F. Holder	Chessie Joy	00:09:17
Play 33	33 - Marcus Aurelius, Octave Thanet	readread	01:04:36
Play 34	34 - Anna and the Rattler, Mrs. Cornell	JamesMcAndrew	00:30:31
Play 35	35 - The Butterfly's Children, Mrs. Alfred Gatty	Sheila Wood	00:24:37
Play 36	36 - The Dragon-Fly and the Water-Lily, Carl Ewald	Sharon Kilmer	00:23:40
Play 37	37 - Powder-Post, C. A. Stephens	readread	00:17:30
Play 38	38 - The Queen Bee, Carl Ewald	Jacki Horn	00:29:48
Play 39	39 - A Swarm of Wild Bees, Albert W. Tolman	Arnold	00:29:03
Play 40	40 - The Intelligence of Ants, Sir John Lubbock	Tom Merritt	00:32:18
Play 41	41 - The Katy-Did's Party, Harriet B. Stowe	Sharon Kilmer	00:26:14
Play 42	42 - The Beech and the Oak, Carl Ewald	Sheila Wood	00:30:42
Play 43	43 - The Oak and the Snail, Mrs. Alfred Gatty	Sharon Kilmer	00:15:58
Play 44	44 - The Story of a Stone, David Starr Jordan	nomorejeffs	00:23:41
Play 45	45 - How the Stone-Age Children Played, Charles C. Abbott	Arnie Horton	00:19:18
Play 46	46 - The Mist, Carl Ewald	Greg Giordano	00:23:12
Play 47	47 - The Anemones, Carl Ewald	Greg Giordano	00:23:04
Play 48	48 - The Weeds, Carl Ewald	Greg Giordano	00:21:27
Play 49	49 - Some Voices from the Kitchen Garden, Mrs. Alfred Gatty	thestorygirl	00:41:36
Play 50	50 - The Wind and the Flowers, Mrs. Alfred Gatty	thestorygirl	00:33:41
Play 51	51 - PHIL'S ADVENTURES AMONG THE ANIMALS	Lynne T	00:01:03
Play 52	52 - At Home With the Beavers, Lillian M. Gask	Lynne T	00:19:23
Play 53	53 - Two Enemies of the Beavers, Lillian M. Gask	maryagneskatherine	00:41:21
Play 54	54 - The Squirrel's Story, Lillian M. Gask	Gertrude Durette	00:47:46
Play 55	55 - A Den in the Rocks, Lillian M. Gask	rookieblue	00:37:43
Play 56	56 - Ships of the Desert, Lillian M. Gask	rookieblue	00:39:15
Play 57	57 - The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter	Ann Boulais	00:12:57
Play 58	58 - Lions and Tigers, Anonymous	Greg Giordano	00:19:54
Play 59	59 - Apes and Monkeys, Anonymous	Lynne T	00:04:50
Play 60	60 - The Hippopotamus and the Rhinoceros, Anonymous	Kane	00:09:49
Play 61	61 - The Giraffe, Anonymous	Greg Giordano	00:09:12
Play 62	62 - Parrots, Anonymous	Kane	00:12:22
Play 63	63 - Rab And His Friends, John Brown, M.D.	Gabriela Cowan	00:44:33
Play 64	64 - A Ride With A Mad Horse In A Freight-Car, W.H.H. Murray	Lynne T	00:37:20
Play 65	65 - A-Hunting Of The Deer, Charles Dudley Warner	Greg Giordano	00:32:00

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