Legends & Fairy Tales - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 33

Download the MP3 Audio of Alice 9 (Right Click, Save Link as) The Mock Turtle's Story Alice, still holding a flamingo under her arm, returns to the Duchess and is irritated by her sharp chin and her constant refrain, 'And the moral of that is...'....

Download the audio of Alice 8 (help) The Queen's Croquet-Ground. There are so many famous lines from Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland, that it is hard to say which is the most famous, but "Off with their heads" must be a contender. Alice reaches...

Download the MP3 Audio of Alice Chapter 11 Who Stole the Tarts? We reach the last but one chapter of the first Alice book. The trial begins of the Knave of Hearts on the charge of stealing the tarts. Many familiar faces are present in the court...

Download the mp3 audio of Alice 10 (right click, save as) The Lobster Quadrille According to the Wikipedia, a quadrille is " a historic dance performed by four couples in a square formation." In this story it is performed by the Mock Turtle and The...

St. David is the patron Saint of Wales and his day falls on March 1st, when Welsh people celebrate by wearing leeks and daffodils - two of the symbols of Wales. The Welsh dragon is another symbol. David was born in Wales around the year 500 and...

Looking-Glass House. Alice's out of the way adventures start again in the second Alice book by Lewis Carroll, published in 1871. This time she meets characters from a game of chess - as opposed to the pack of cards in the first book. There are more...

Download the MP3 Audio (right click, save as) We reach the final Chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - but don't worry - there are more adventures to come "Through The Looking Glass". Justice is not exactly done in this Wonderland trial - in...

Download the audio (Click to Play, Right Click to Save As) Alice meets some very unusual insects and suddenly finds herself on a strange train journey without a ticket. If you have wondered about what a bread and butter fly looks like, or what a...

Download the audio (Click to the Play, Right Click to Save As) The Garden of Live Flowers (Natasha has written a special Review of this Story which you can read here) Alice talks to some flowers who think that she is stupid. She then talks to the...

Download the audio to your computer, Right Click, Save As. This classic story by Oscar Wilde is set in a garden that is not unlike paradise. Children play freely among the trees and flowers. And then the owner, The Selfish Giant, returns from a long...

Original Pictures for Storynory by Henrietta MacPhee Read by Natasha Oscar Wilde's story of a statue and a swallow is both beautiful and sad. We feel it captures much of the spirit of Easter (our reasons for thinking this are explained here). The...

Download the audio (Right Click, Save As) You can't beat a story that has an animal hero who is both intelligent and courageous. The White Seal is an absolute classic of that genre. Kipling's tale has a very modern theme - it highlights the way in...

Most domestic or farm animals have to earn their place by the fire. Kipling's short story (from the Just So Stories) tells us why cats can drink milk from a bowl AND live a semi-wild life by themselves. It takes us back to the time when people lived...

Download the audio, (Right Click, Save As) This is one of the wonderful Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. It explains why a huge mammal - the whale - can only eat the smallest things. The story is full of Kipling's love of words and sounds, and...

Kipling’s ‘Just So story from when the world was very new tells how the grumpy, idle camel turned his ‘humph’ into a ‘hump.’ The moral of the story is that not having enough to do makes people (and animals) grumpy. As we mention in the introduction,...

We conclude the story of The White Seal from the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (Part One is here). The White Seal has gone in search of the Sea Cow who can tell him of a special place where no humans visit. It is only in such a sanctuary that the...

Why does the tide come in and out? Scientists might tell you it has something to do with the laws of gravity and the orbit of the moon. Of course it is true that there is a Fisher of the Moon who pulls in and lets out tide. But at the very...

The Just So Stories by Kipling (who also wrote the Jungle Book) tell us so many interesting things - and in this story we learn how the Leopard got his spots - and why a Leopard can never change his spots. (We have slightly adapted the story at the...

There are so many questions that Kipling answered for us, and this is one of the most interesting - how rhinoceroses became so wrinkly and so bad tempered. Read by Richard Scott. HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKIN Hello, This is Richard, and I’m here...

Mowgli boy in jungles with different plants and lianas, watercolor paintings By Rudyard Kipling Hello, This is Richard, and I’m going to be reading from the famous Mowgli chapters from the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. They tell the tale of a...