Madam How and Lady Why

Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)

Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes to your children? Search no more, this book has all the answers (at least all the ones that were known in 1869) and gives them in a pedagogical way. Listed on the Ambleside homeschooling list. (Summary by Nadine)

Genre(s): Science, Earth Sciences

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface alwpoe
00:10:50
Play 01 Chapter 1 - The Glen pt 1 Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
00:20:42
Play 02 Chapter 1 - The Glen pt 2 Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
00:21:31
Play 03 Chapter 2 - Earthquakes Spinhop
00:34:28
Play 04 Chapter 3 - Volcanoes Esther
00:33:48
Play 05 Chapter 4 - The Transformations of a Grain of Soil Lonelle Yoder
00:25:03
Play 06 Chapter 5 - The Ice-Plough Pentti Hirvonen
00:27:31
Play 07 Chapter 6 - The True Fairy Tale Pentti Hirvonen
00:30:40
Play 08 Chapter 7 - The Chalk-Carts Pentti Hirvonen
00:32:29
Play 09 Chapter 8 - Madam How's Two Grandsons Kalynda
00:26:22
Play 10 Chapter 9 - The Coral-Reef Availle
00:39:07
Play 11 Chapter 10 - Field and Wild pt 1 Spinhop
00:26:37
Play 12 Chapter 10 - Field and Wild pt 2 Dawn Larsen
00:23:50
Play 13 Chapter 11 - The World's end Spinhop
00:44:30
Play 14 Chapter 12 - Homeward Bound pt 1 E.Lee
00:28:17
Play 15 Chapter 12 - Homeward Bound pt 2 Sarah Crampton
00:32:55