A fun story for your kids to listen to while you sew.
Material Mama Podcast #7 Storytime!
A charming little book full of the most gorgeous illustrations which can be viewed along with the Gutenberg text at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15661.
We see a number of stories in which kindness is rewarded and selfishness is punished but Brooke squeezes a number of intriguing and quite bizarre twists and turns into the story so it is not nearly so predictable as you might imagine.
Victorian moral fairy tales from a delightfully inventive mind. It does mention wine (a lot lol) but it’s in the correct context of the times it was written.
November 12, 2006 at 5:36 am
That http://www.librivox.org thing looks cool…. On both sides, for people who want to hone their reading skils… and to create audiobooks of works in the public domain to make available for free download… I might have the guts to read a chapter into a mic. – thanks!