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2023-02-18
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When They Were Children: Stories of the Childhood of Famous Men and Women

Amy Steedman

Sketches about the childhood of many famous men and women, written just for children!

Genre(s): Biography

Language: English

Keyword(s): children (1097), childhood (55), biographical sketches (1)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 About This Book Keren Smithies
 00:02:48
Play 01 Saint Augustine Keren Smithies
 00:07:19
Play 02 S. Louis of France Anita Hibbard
 00:11:37
Play 03 Giotto Emily Maynard
 00:09:08
Play 04 S. Catherine of Siena De Anna Lee
 00:12:38
Play 05 Jeanne D'Arc Emily Maynard
 00:13:00
Play 06 Michael Angelo Emily Maynard
 00:10:35
Play 07 Queen Elizabeth Seraphina
 00:15:51
Play 08 Mary Queen of Scots Stacey Malcolm
 00:14:24
Play 09 Louis XIII Rita Boutros
 00:21:49
Play 10 Sir Isaac Newton prajak
 00:10:31
Play 11 Samuel Johnson De Anna Lee
 00:10:36
Play 12 Frederick the Great Wayne Cooke
 00:18:28
Play 13 Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Keren Smithies
 00:23:27
Play 14 George Washington Rita Boutros
 00:11:23
Play 15 Goethe Rita Boutros
 00:26:08
Play 16 Mozart Beeswaxcandle
 00:14:43
Play 17 Horatio Nelson Rita Boutros
 00:15:14
Play 18 Arthur, Duke of Wellington Weretortoise
 00:07:16
Play 19 Napoleon Bonaparte Beeswaxcandle
 00:14:56
Play 20 Sir Walter Scott Kazaxat
 00:17:47
Play 21 Elizabeth Fry BookBard
 00:10:00
Play 22 George Stephenson Marie Christian
 00:13:28
Play 23 Sir John Franklin Beau Wood
 00:25:39
Play 24 Hans Andersen Weretortoise
 00:15:48
Play 25 Abraham Lincoln prajak
 00:25:11
Play 26 Alfred Tennyson De Anna Lee
 00:09:52
Play 27 William Makepeace Thackeray Keren Smithies
 00:19:38
Play 28 Charles Dickens Jonathan Jones
 00:22:37
Play 29 Robert Browning Beeswaxcandle
 00:09:07
Play 30 David Livingstone Ruth P.
 00:17:09
Play 31 Richard Wagner Beeswaxcandle
 00:16:40
Play 32 Jean-Francois Millet De Anna Lee
 00:10:50
Play 33 Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters Keren Smithies
 00:17:28
Play 34 John Ruskin jenno
 00:13:10
Play 35 Queen Victoria Ruth P.
 00:14:27
Play 36 George Eliot Rita Boutros
 00:11:53
Play 37 Florence Nightingale Keren Smithies
 00:10:22
Play 38 Jenny Lind Beeswaxcandle
 00:15:02
Play 39 Rosa Bonheur BettyB
 00:18:31
Play 40 John Coleridge Patteson Stephanie Gish
 00:22:13
Play 41 Sir John Everett Millais jenno
 00:14:56
Play 42 Louisa Alcott BettyB
 00:17:09
Play 43 Charles George Gordon Jonathan Jones
 00:11:53
Play 44 Thomas Alva Edison prajak
 00:08:14
Play 45 Robert Louis Stevenson Rita Boutros
 00:20:58