Five Minute Stories

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Family

Authors: Laura E. Howe Richards In Year : 1895

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Five Minute Stories

Betty
Two Calls
A New Year Song
New Year
A Lesson Song
The Rubber Baby
The Red, White and Blue
Totty’s Christmas
A Certain Boy
The New Sister
Buttercup Gold
One Afternoon
The Stove
John’s Sister
New Year Song
What Was Her Name
A Lesson Song
The Patient Cat
Mathematics
By the Fading Light
Tobogganing Song
Song of the Tilt
The Lazy Robin
The Boy’s Manners
Merry Christmas
Rinktum
In the Tunnel
Practising Song
Queen Elizabeth’s Dance
A Storming Party
At the Little Boy’s Home
Then and Now
Pleasant Walk
A Great Day
A Pastoral
Riches
Poverty
The Best of All
A Study Hour
The Young Ladies
The Weathercock
Ichthyology
A Happy Morning
Lilies and Cat-Tails
The Metals
The Howlery Growlery Room
The Speckled Hen
The Money Shop
A Long Afternoon
The Jacket
The Fireworks
Jingle
See-Saw
Nancy’s Nightmare
Amy’s Valentine
Once Upon a Time
The Pathetic Ballad of Clarinthia Jane Louisa
A Day in the Country
Goosey Lucy
Goosey Lucy’s New Year’s Calls
Three Little Birds
The Quacky Duck
New Year Thoughts
Nonsense
The Singular Chicken
The Clever Parson
The Purple Fish
Mr. Somebody
A Christmas Ride
A Funny Fellow
Woffsky-Poffsky
April and the Children
The Snowball
A Great Fight
Hallelujah!
Lullaby
Merry Christmas
The Little Dog with the Green Tail
Naughty
Hard Times
On the Steeple
Naughty Billy
A Lad
Saint Valentine’s House
The Gentleman
A Leap Year Boy
King Pippin
The Story of the Crimson Crab
Mother’s Riddle
King John
The Spotty Cow
The Button Pie
The Inquisitive Ducks
Queen Matilda
The Two-Shoes Chair
Ethelred the Unready
Poor Bonny
The Husking of the Corn
The Clever Cheese-Maker
The Spelling Lesson
The Person who Did Not Like Cats

Another collection of poems and short stories by Laura Richards. Yes, these are all short and mostly all delightfully innocent and sweet. Some have a moral for little children, and some are just funny or poignant or educational, but all are a peek into the way of life of a century ago when children lived a slower and possibly happier life and kids loved to be read a story at bedtime. No cell phones or TV, just a loving connection between parent and child. So if you want to see what it was like to listen to a story or a poem from a simpler time, just pick one from the great variety here, turn down the lamp and settle down to enjoy the warm glow of good old fashioned story tellin'. - Summary by Phil chenevert