Bedtime Classics Library

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   🟡 Ring o' Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book (Full Audiobook) | L. Leslie Brooke

   A collection of Classical children's nursery rhymes. Many familiar, a few unfamiliar, all simple and easy for younger children.Author: L. Leslie BrookeLength: 8 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, PoetryChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 102:53 - Chapter 205:13 - Chapter 3Audiobook recording provided...

   Oct 17, 2026

   8m
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   🟡 Everybody's Lonesome (Full Audiobook) | Clara E. Laughlin

   Twenty-year-old Mary Alice is bored with her home life and envious of the beautiful, poised, popular girls she sees at parties. At her mother's advice, she reluctantly visits her Godmother in New York, who teaches Mary Alice a little homemade "magic" and the one great Secret that will put her at...

   Oct 16, 2026

   1h 29m
3. 🟡 Singing Mouse Stories (Full Audiobook) | Emerson Hough

   The singing mouse tells tales of nature in songs. This book is for those who want to know how the mountains ate up the plains, what the waters said or where the city went. (summary by Nadine).Author: Emerson HoughLength: 2 hours 24 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy...

   Oct 15, 2026

   2h 24m
4. 🟡 Old Greek Stories (Full Audiobook) | James Baldwin

   A retelling of old Greek stories involving mythological heroes and their adventures. Tales include those of Prometheus, Io, Perseus and Theseus. (Introduction by Iris McLeod).Author: James BaldwinLength: 4 hours 34 minutesGenre: Myths, Legends & Fairy TalesChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 103:01…

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   Oct 14, 2026

   4h 34m
5. 🟡 What Katy Did (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Susan Coolidge

   Follow the adventures of Katy Carr and her family, through good times and bad. (Summary by Karen Savage).Author: Susan CoolidgeLength: 4 hours 35 minutesGenre: Children's FictionChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 117:38 - Chapter 232:30 - Chapter 351:09 - Chapter 401:10:51 - Chapter 501:30:25 -...

   Oct 13, 2026

   4h 35m
6. 🟡 Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome (Full Audiobook) | E. M. Berens - Part 2 of 2

   Part 2 of 2.\n\nThis is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. (Summary by Sibella).Author: E. M. BerensLength: 11 hours 23 minutesGenre: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Myths…

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   Oct 10, 2026

   5h 42m
7. 🟡 Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome (Full Audiobook) | E. M. Berens - Part 1 of 2

   Part 1 of 2.\n\nThis is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. (Summary by Sibella).Author: E. M. BerensLength: 11 hours 23 minutesGenre: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Myths…

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   Oct 10, 2026

   5h 42m
8. 🟡 Cousin's Conspiracy (Full Audiobook) | Horatio Alger, Jr.

   Ernest Ray is a young boy who sets out to reclaim the inheritance that was unjustly with held from his father and given to a cousin. (Introduction by Abigail Rasmussen).Author: Horatio Alger, Jr.Length: 5 hours 15 minutesGenre: Children's FictionChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 108:17 - Chapter...

   Oct 9, 2026

   5h 15m
9. 🟡 William Tell Told Again (Full Audiobook) | P. G. Wodehouse

   This is the classic story of William Tell - Swiss patriot and great apple-shooter - as seen through the eyes of English humorist P. G. Wodehouse.Author: P. G. WodehouseLength: 1 hours 44 minutesGenre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Humorous FictionChaptersChapters:00:00…

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   Oct 8, 2026

   1h 44m
10. 🟡 Robin Hood (Full Audiobook) | J. Walker McSpadden

    Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green...

    Oct 7, 2026

    5h 56m
11. 🟡 Grimm Tales Made Gay (Full Audiobook) | Guy Wetmore Carryl

    A comic rendering in verse of well-loved Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, each ending with a moral and full of puns. The titles of the tales themselves make another verse. (Summary by Annise).Author: Guy Wetmore CarrylLength: 1 hours 6 minutesGenre: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Humorous…

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    Oct 6, 2026

    1h 06m
12. 🟡 Shadows (Full Audiobook) | George MacDonald

    "Old Ralph Rinkelmann made his living by comic sketches, and all but lost it again by tragic poems. So he was just the man to be chosen king of the fairies. " George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 - September 18, 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.Author: George...

    Oct 5, 2026

    1h 28m
13. 🟡 Violet: A Fairy Story (Full Audiobook) | Caroline Snowden Guild

    A charming fairytale -- with realistic touches -- from the mid-19th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes).Author: Caroline Snowden GuildLength: 2 hours 22 minutesGenre: Myths, Legends & Fairy TalesChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 101:09 - Chapter 205:45 - Chapter 311:02 - Chapter 415:00 - Chapter...

    Oct 3, 2026

    2h 22m
14. 🟡 Celtic Fairy Tales (Full Audiobook) | Joseph Jacobs

    Celtic Fairy Tales is a collection of 25 folk and fairy stories collected from Ireland and Scotland. At what I imagine is the Frontispiece, or the dedication page, is the phrase: _SAY THIS /Three times, with your eyes shut_/ Mothuighim boladh an ireannaigh bhinn bhreugaigh faoi m'fhidn dthaigh....

    Oct 2, 2026

    6h 27m
15. 🟡 Sintram and His Companions (Full Audiobook) | Friedrich de la Motte Fouqu

    Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, also the author of Undine, was a German Romantic writer whose stories were filled with knights, damsels in distress, evil enchantments, and the struggle of good against overpowering evil. 'My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. ' Fouque…

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    Oct 1, 2026

    4h 02m
16. 🟡 Little Bush Maid (Full Audiobook) | Mary Grant Bruce

    An Australian children's classic about life on a ranch around the same time of A Little Florida Lady, with a similarly plucky tomboy heroine. Also, like the latter story, expect some racial stereotyping of Asian and Aboriginal characters. (Summary by BellonaTimes).Author: Mary Grant BruceLength…

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    Sep 30, 2026

    6h 39m
17. 🟡 Mabinogion, Volume 1 (Full Audiobook) | Anonymous

    Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest: On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flock of black sheep. And whenever one of the white sheep bleated, one of the black sheep would cross over, and become white; and when one of the black sheep...

    Sep 29, 2026

    4h 52m
18. 🟡 Black Fawn (Full Audiobook) | Jim Kjelgaard

    Bud Sloan was an orphan who had been 'sold out' of the orphanage to work on a farm once he'd been old enough to labor. The farm where he was to work was owned by an aging farmer and his wife who had raised a large family and were now left alone. One day, after his chores were done, Bud wandered...

    Sep 28, 2026

    5h 22m
19. 🟡 Popular Tales from the Norse (Full Audiobook) | Sir George Webbe Dasent - Part 2 of 2

    Part 2 of 2.\n\nThe most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has been familiar from his earliest youth. They are Nursery Tales, in fact, of the days when there were tales in nurseries--old wives' fables…

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    Sep 26, 2026

    8h 41m
20. 🟡 Popular Tales from the Norse (Full Audiobook) | Sir George Webbe Dasent - Part 1 of 2

    Part 1 of 2.\n\nThe most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has been familiar from his earliest youth. They are Nursery Tales, in fact, of the days when there were tales in nurseries--old wives' fables…

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    Sep 26, 2026

    8h 41m
21. 🟡 Gate of the Giant Scissors (Full Audiobook) | Annie Fellows Johnston

    This is the story of Joyce, an American girl who has been sent abroad to France to study, and of her adventures in France, - the wonderful house with the gate of The Giant Scissors, Jules, her little playmate, Sister Denis, the cruel Brossard, and her dear Aunt Kate. (Summary from an original…

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    Sep 25, 2026

    3h 00m
22. 🟡 Viking Tales (Full Audiobook) | Jennie Hall

    Viking tales are tales from Iceland, featuring the king Halfdan and his son Harald. (Summary by Nadine).Author: Jennie HallLength: 3 hours 29 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, Short StoriesChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 105:19 - Chapter 207:38 - Chapter 315:28 - Chapter 425:32 - Chapter 531:27…

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    Sep 24, 2026

    3h 29m
23. 🟡 Raggedy Ann Stories (Full Audiobook) | Johnny Gruelle

    To the millions of children and grown-ups who have loved a Rag Doll, the author dedicated these stories. Now listen as eight voices read to you Raggedy Ann's exciting adventures, as gentle and charming today, as they were when first published in 1918. Find out what is written on her candy heart,...

    Sep 23, 2026

    1h 50m
24. 🟡 Adventures of Reddy Fox (Full Audiobook) | Thornton W. Burgess

    The Adventures of Reddy Fox is another in the series of children's stories by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this story, Reddy and Granny Fox must outsmart Farmer Brown's Boy who is out to get Reddy for stealing his pet chicken.Author: Thornton W. BurgessLength: 1 hours 38 minutesGenre:...

    Sep 22, 2026

    1h 38m
25. 🟡 Birds' Christmas Carol (Full Audiobook) | Kate Douglas Wiggin

    Carol Bird was born on Christmas Day. She has spent all of her 11 years putting others above herself, always finding ways to make their lives a little more special. Even when faced with her own illness, the pure goodness of her heart shines through.Author: Kate Douglas WigginLength: 1 hours 12...

    Sep 21, 2026

    1h 12m
26. 🟡 Parables from Nature (Full Audiobook) | Margaret Gatty - Part 2 of 2

    Part 2 of 2.\n\nParables From Nature is a collection of short stories which were originally published as 4 separate volumes. They are inspired from Nature and written for children. Nevertheless, Gatty uses children's literature because she knows that in doing so, she can reach a wider group of...

    Sep 19, 2026

    5h 37m
27. 🟡 Parables from Nature (Full Audiobook) | Margaret Gatty - Part 1 of 2

    Part 1 of 2.\n\nParables From Nature is a collection of short stories which were originally published as 4 separate volumes. They are inspired from Nature and written for children. Nevertheless, Gatty uses children's literature because she knows that in doing so, she can reach a wider group of...

    Sep 19, 2026

    5h 37m
28. 🟡 Anne of Avonlea (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Lucy Maud Montgomery

    The second part in the story of Anne Shirley, covering her years of teaching at Avonlea School, before she heads off to college. Other books in this series by this reader: Anne of Green Gables <a...

    Sep 18, 2026

    7h 17m
29. 🟡 Yellow Fairy Book (Full Audiobook) | Andrew Lang - Part 2 of 2

    Part 2 of 2.\n\n"Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an...

    Sep 16, 2026

    5h 41m
30. 🟡 Yellow Fairy Book (Full Audiobook) | Andrew Lang - Part 1 of 2

    Part 1 of 2.\n\n"Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an...

    Sep 16, 2026

    5h 41m
31. 🟡 Tin Woodman of Oz (Full Audiobook) | L. Frank Baum

    The Tin Woodman of Oz is the twelfth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum and was originally published on May 13, 1918. The Tin Woodman is unexpectedly reunited with his Munchkin sweetheart Nimmie Amee from the days when he was flesh and blood.Author: L. Frank BaumLength: 5 hours 15...

    Sep 15, 2026

    5h 15m
32. 🟡 Nights With Uncle Remus (Full Audiobook) | Joel Chandler Harris - Part 2 of 2

    Part 2 of 2.\n\nThat the little boy loved Uncle Remus and his stories was so obvious that the tale-spinning sessions began drawing additional listeners. Daddy Jack, an old "Africa man" visiting from down-state; Sis Tempy, the strong chief of the mansion's servants; and Tildy, a young and pretty...

    Sep 14, 2026

    6h 20m
33. 🟡 Nights With Uncle Remus (Full Audiobook) | Joel Chandler Harris - Part 1 of 2

    Part 1 of 2.\n\nThat the little boy loved Uncle Remus and his stories was so obvious that the tale-spinning sessions began drawing additional listeners. Daddy Jack, an old "Africa man" visiting from down-state; Sis Tempy, the strong chief of the mansion's servants; and Tildy, a young and pretty...

    Sep 14, 2026

    6h 20m
34. 🟡 East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Full Audiobook) | Peter Christen Asbjrnsen

    Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn't much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty children they all were, but the prettiest was the youngest daughter, who was so lovely there was no end to her loveliness. So one day, 'twas on a Thursday…

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    Sep 12, 2026

    3h 57m
35. 🟡 Secret Garden (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Frances Hodgson Burnett

    When Mary Lennox, who has been brought up in India in a spoiled manner, is orphaned she has to move to Yorkshire, England, to live with her uncle in Misselthwaite Manor. Here she is treated much differently than she was in India - she is able to make friends with children her own age, one of…

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    Sep 11, 2026

    7h 15m
36. 🟡 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (Full Audiobook) | Charles Perrault

    This book is an early collection of ten well-known fairy tales. It is thought to have begun the genre of fairy tales. (Summary by A.Author: Charles PerraultLength: 2 hours 51 minutesGenre: Myths, Legends & Fairy TalesChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 118:13 - Chapter 223:42 - Chapter 329:53 -...

    Sep 10, 2026

    2h 51m
37. 🟡 Drama of Exile (Full Audiobook) | Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    In writing her 'Drama of Exile', Barrett's subject was 'the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from Paradise into the wilderness'. The bizarre, lyrical scenes that follow powerfully describe the grief and guilt of Eve, the sorrowful pride of Lucifer, and the...

    Sep 9, 2026

    2h 03m
38. 🟡 What Katy Did at School (Full Audiobook) | Susan Coolidge

    The continuing story of Katy Carr, recounting the time she spent at boarding school with her sister Clover. (Summary by Karen Savage).Author: Susan CoolidgeLength: 4 hours 20 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, SchoolChaptersChapters:00:00 - Chapter 124:07 - Chapter 243:06 - Chapter 359:10…

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    Sep 7, 2026

    4h 20m
39. 🟡 Slipper Point Mystery (Full Audiobook) | Augusta Huiell Seaman

    When fourteen year old Sally Carter shares her secret about When fourteen year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discovered on Slipper Point with her new friend Doris Craig, she couldn't possibly imagine where the solution to this intriguing mystery will lead them. Augusta…

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    Sep 5, 2026

    3h 13m
40. 🟡 Poor Little Rich Girl (Full Audiobook) | Eleanor Gates

    The Poor Little Rich Girl is a children's fantasy about a little girl named Gwendolyn who is lonely and longs for a friend. But she is isolated by rich parents who ignore her and left to the care of servants who are indifferent. Her nanny's carelessness with some medicine plunges Gwendolyn into a...

    Sep 4, 2026

    7h 14m
41. 🟡 More William (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Richmal Crompton

    More William is the second William collection in the much acclaimed Just William series by Richmal Crompton. It is a sequel to the book Just William. The book was first published in 1922, (Summary by Wikipedia).Author: Richmal CromptonLength: 4 hours 48 minutesGenre: Children's Fiction, General...

    Sep 3, 2026

    4h 48m
42. 🟡 Phoenix and the Carpet (Full Audiobook) | E. Nesbit

    The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written in 1904 by E. Nesbit. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that began with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five protagonists - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb.Author: E.…

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    Sep 2, 2026

    6h 37m
43. 🟡 Undine (Full Audiobook) | Friedrich de la Motte Fouqu

    Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqu concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages. The novel served as inspiration for two operas in the...

    Sep 1, 2026

    3h 08m
44. 🟡 Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01 (Full Audiobook) | Anonymous - Part 2 of 2

    Part 2 of 2.\n\nThis is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but...

    Aug 27, 2026

    6h 49m
45. 🟡 Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01 (Full Audiobook) | Anonymous - Part 1 of 2

    Part 1 of 2.\n\nThis is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but...

    Aug 27, 2026

    6h 49m
46. 🟡 Princess and the Goblin (Full Audiobook) | George MacDonald

    The Princess and the Goblin is an enthralling fantasy tale written by George MacDonald. Her nurse Lootie raises the princess Irene in a house on a mountain, it is here that she meets her mysterious great-great-grandmother, and her friend the minor boy Curdie. Things are peaceful for Irene until…

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    Aug 26, 2026

    5h 32m
47. 🟡 Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children (Full Audiobook) | Charles Kingsley

    The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and believed the adventures of the characters would inspire children to achieve higher...

    Aug 25, 2026

    5h 24m
48. 🟡 Wind in the Willows (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Kenneth Grahame

    The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, destruction of private property (plenty of that), paganism, and a happy ending. The prose is beautiful and occasionally requires the use of a dictionary - I…

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    Aug 24, 2026

    6h 55m
49. 🟡 Scarecrow of Oz (Full Audiobook) | L. Frank Baum

    The Scarecrow of Oz is the ninth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. Published on July 16, 1915, it was Baum's personal favorite of the Oz books and tells of Cap'n Bill and Trot journeying to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow, overthrowing the cruel King Krewl of...

    Aug 23, 2026

    5h 04m
50. 🟡 Old Peter's Russian Tales (Full Audiobook) | Arthur Ransome

    Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public domain. These stories are all from Russian folklore, some comparatively well-known, others less so.Author: Arthur RansomeLength: 7 hours 41...

    Aug 22, 2026

    7h 42m