Publisher: Krill Press
Frank Richard Stockton was a popular 19th century American author who remains best known for writing a series of acclaimed children's fairy tales. His books are still read across the world today.
This is the second audiobook. It is a collection of ten short stories for children. They are funny and enjoyable. This audiobook collection contains the following stories: The Man Who Likes To Shout (1) A goat herder who spent his days in the fields shouting at his goats. When he was with other people he found that he had a problem which made them dislike him. – The Sly Fox, The Sneaky Snake And The Dirty Rat (2) A little girl who lived with her grandma enjoyed helping her around the house. One day the little girl had to go to the market by herself. – The Big Fat Fly (3) There was an old town where people threw their rubbish into the streets and it was the animals that cleaned it up. The flies weren’t happy so something had to be done. – A Little Bird Who Likes to Sing and Dance (4) A happy little bird who loved to sing and dance and playing with the other birds. Unfortunately for the little bird his happiness was taken away. – The Uninvited Visitor (5) An old man and his wife wanted a quiet life away from the noise and city life. Their peace and quiet was interrupted by an uninvited visitor. – The Little Pussycat (6) A little lion cub who lived in a jungle. His parents did a very good job protecting him, but maybe too well. – The Man With A Fat Belly (7) A man who had a belly that was not quite ordinary. It was extremely fat. No one knew why this man’s belly was so fat. – A Promise is A Promise (8) There was a young man who had no money and often no food. One day when the young man was looking for food he came across a dried up old tree which changed his fortune. – Big Brown Bear (9) A big brown bear who enjoys stealing food. – The Wicked Witch (10) A wicked witch who enjoyed a good wicked laugh.Show book
Pictures capture moments in time, presenting the viewer with a window into another life. But a picture can go only so far. Who are the people in the image?What are their fears? What are their dreams? In the fourteen delightful tales in this collection, Alexander McCall Smith imagines the lives and loves of some of theeveryday people pictured in these twentieth-century photographs. A young woman finds unexpected love while perusing Egyptian antiquities. A family isforever fractured when war comes to Penang, in colonial Malaysia. Iron Jelloid tablets help to reveal a young man’s inner strength. And twin sisters discover thatit’s never too late to forge a new path—even when standing at the altar. There are big stories behind these simple images. Though at first glance they may appear to represent small moments, these photographs in fact speakvolumes, uncovering possibilities of love, friendship, and happiness. With his indomitable charm, Alexander McCall Smith takes us behind the lens to explorethe hidden lives of those photographed; in so doing, he reveals the humanity in us all.Show book
Alexander W. Drake (1843-1916) was an American wood engraver and art collector and director of the art department for Scribner’s and Century magazine. His weird tales were collected by friends to memorialize him following his death in 1916.'The Curious Vehicle' (1893) is the story of a man who is intrigued by a strange carriage on the street and watches it curiously until one snowy Christmas Eve he is invited inside by the mysterious owner. The stranger tells him his sad love story and of his obsessive search to paint the perfect halo on an image of his lost love.Show book
"Two Tales From Alfred C. Martino" includes two short stories from opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. The first, Requiem For An Athlete, is a somber look at the unfulfilled expectations of a once-great athlete. Grad School Daydreams, on the other hand, is a whimsical tale, set at a Southern California university, of a grad school student who daydreams and pines for a beautifully exotic woman sitting next to him in class.Show book
Four short contemporary romances from bestselling author Tracie Peterson take listeners to the author’s native state of Kansas. A single mother is braced for spring tornadoes and Stormy Weather when she encounters her son’s scout troop leader. A student finds her King of Hearts while participating in a summer Renaissance festival, but she may lack queenly confidence. Autumn isn’t just about the changing of the trees for a widow living with her mother and aunts on the family farm, it’s all about Falling for Love. A wife faces Silent Nights during winter as her marriage begins to crumble at Christmastime.Show book
Ferdinand was born blind. Now aged 25, he hears of an Italian doctor who is rumoured to be able to cure cases like his own.His family persuade the doctor to travel to England and attempt to heal his eyes. The cure is lengthy and arduous. Ferdinand must lie in a darkened room for weeks, his eyes bound up in an irritating plaster and wet bandages. The doctor is optimistic of success, but warns that any cure might only be temporary. Worse still, just as the cure is almost at an end, the doctor vanishes secretly and in great haste to another, more profitable patient in South America. Ferdinand completes the cure according to the directions left by the absent doctor and finally the day arrives for him to remove the bandages and see whether the cure has worked. But despite all the preparations, Ferdinand is not prepared for what happens next....Show book
