Excerpt from „In Pawn”: Lem Redding had a dimple in his cheek that appeared when he smiled. For a boy with a faceful of freckles he was pretty. He had dear, bright gray eyes, and his smile, aided by the dimple, made most folks love him at sight. His hair was brown, as his dead mother’s had been; in fact he was much like that mother in more ways than one-far more like her than he was like Harvey Redding, his father. Lem was quick, agile, lively, and Harvey was plumb lazy. Th...
Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was a contemporary of many big names in American fiction straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, but today he’s almost completely forgotten. The selections in „Mike Flannery On Duty and Off” book include three humorous stories, „Just Like a Cat,” „The Three Hundred” and „Fleas Will Be Fleas,” by this American humorist, whose first success, „Pigs is Pigs” (1906), remained his greatest. Nevertheless, the Mike Flannery stories are among his best...
Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was a contemporary of many big names in American fiction straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, but today he’s almost completely forgotten. Butler, the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. His writing spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. „Perkins of Portland „ are amusing tales showing the effectiveness of advertising some rather questiona...
Beloved humor writer Ellis Parker Butler hits it out of the ballpark with his first full-length novel, „Kilo: Being the Love Story of Eliph’ Hewlitt, Book Agent”. The plot centers around Eliph’ Hewlitt, a travelling book salesman of the horse-and-buggy era who finds the love of his life in Kilo, Iowa and he decides on the spot to marry her and settles down there, peddling books to the locals, but Sally Briggs, the woman whom he’s fixated on, doesn’t feel the same way. The c...
Humorous novel set in Riverbank, a fictionalized Muscatine, in a Mississippi River town. Pastor David Dean and his wife take up residence in this town, Iowa in the 1850s and learn how unaccepting a small town can be of new residents, even after a stay of decades. An interesting social history of mid nineteenth century life, emphasizing the dominance of crass commercial interests in the vicissitudes of small town life, written by an American author Ellis Parker Butler. He wa...
A hilarious parody of the detective genre – Philo Gubb dreams of becoming a detective like Sherlock Holmes and quitting his job as a wallpaper-hanger. He enrolls in a correspondence course which offers lessons and various disguises. He soon gets involved in several cases and much to his surprise – and those around him – proves to be rather adept at solving crimes. Amazingly, he solves many puzzles and even catches some real thieves and other criminals usually by some mistak...
A city man moves to the suburbs with humorous results – gardening, automobiling, and golfing become new avocations. The book „The Adventures of a Suburbanite” includes two chapters on golf: „The Royal Game” and „Advanced Golf.” The subjects of humor in this book are mostly the two neighbors’ opposing opinions about all aspects of domestic and rural life, the gardening, and a variety of slapstick troubles with an automobile. Why is the neighbor so obsessed with his car? Wher...
First published in 1920, „Swatty: A Story of Real Boy” is another breathtaking tale from American author Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937). Butler, the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, is most famous for his short story „Pigs is Pigs” in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs that soon start proliferating geometrically. His writing spanned mo...
Ellis Parker Butler was an American author in the first half of the 20th century. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, and is most famous for his short story „Pigs is Pigs”. His writing spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. More of this popular author’s fun, a bundle of absurd complications and ridiculous situations arising from a young married couple’s scheme t...
The twins are living in relatively straightened circumstances, as their father has died, and get up to all kinds of mischief, while being governed by their own set of values. The children, however, have little dread of poverty, for when ever they desire a luxury, such as a bicycle, or a fur stole for their mother’s Christmas present, they devise some means to raise the necessary funds, and they stop at nothing from inducing a rich great-aunt to endow a home for cats to poac...
Edgar Jepson was a prolific English writer whose career spanned from the eighteen-nineties to the nineteen-thirties. He achieved fame principally for his entertaining mainstream detective and adventure stories, although he also wrote two fantasies, „The Horned Shepherd” and „The Garden at 19”. If you enjoy the works of Edgar Jepson then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. The title character of „The Admirable Tinker” is repeatedly described as an ...
Edgar Alfred Jepson was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. The story „Pollyooly. A Romance of Long Felt Wants and the Red Haired Girl Who Filled Them” (1912) takes place prior to World War I. Pollyooly, whose given name is Mary Bride, is the 12-year-old housekeeper of John Ruffin, a London barrister. Pollyooly and her younger brother, Roger are orphans. R...
„Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl” is a bride story. Jepson continues the story of his twelve year-old heroine, Mary Bride, known as Pollyooly. She is still acting as housekeeper to the Honorable John Ruffin, keeping his rooms spotlessly clean and grilling his bacon to the right turn. John Ruffin gets a windfall that enables him to take a seaside holiday. He takes Pollyooly and her brother along with him. Twice in the course of the story she is called to act the p...
Tommy learns how to communicate with animals, thanks to Doctor Dolittle. Tommy finds himself with a kind doctor on a thrilling and dangerous journey to find Long Arrow, the native American and son of the Golden Arrow, who is considered the greatest living naturalist in the world. This is both an adventure story and a strong call for compassion for animals. The main character found a man in spirit and now they will travel together.
The small, plump and shy Dr. Doolittle is a wonderful doctor whose love of animals deprives his patients. But after his parrot Polynesia teaches him to speak in animal languages, the Doctor becomes famous in the animal world, and travels around the world and even to the Moon! The doctor and his pets go to Africa to save the kingdom of monkeys from the plague. This book is for various age. Even an adult like it.
„The Golden Road”, written by legendary author Lucy Maud Montgomery is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. Introduced in „The Story Girl”, Sara Stanley is L.M. Montgomery’s most enchanting heroine since Anne of Green Gables. When she returns to Carlisle to spend the winter with the King family, she comes up with a great idea. To help them through the dreary months ahead, she...
„Rilla of Ingleside” is a coming-of-age novel written in 1921 by L.M. Montgomery that focuses on the youngest daughter of the beloved Anne Shirley, now Mrs. Blythe from the „Anne of Green Gables” series. In this final book in the Anne of Green Gables series, young Rilla Blythe dreams only of her first dance and getting her first kiss from the dashing Kenneth Ford. But undreamed-of challenges await the irrepressible Rilla when the world of Ingleside becomes endangered by a f...
„Pat of Silver Bus” (1933) portrays a girl named Patricia Gardiner, who hates changes of any kind and loves her home, Silver Bush, more than anything else in the world. The book begins when Pat is 7 years old and ends when she is 18. She is very devoted to her family: her father and mother, her brothers Joe and Sid, and her sisters Winnie and Rachel. If it were up to her, nothing there would ever change. But of course if nothing changed, she’d never get a new baby sister, s...
If you’ve read and loved Anne of Green Gables, you’d definitely like to add „Rainbow Valley” by Lucy Maud Montgomery to your collection. Published in 1919, it is the seventh book in the chronology of the Anne of Green Gables series and follows the further life and adventures of Anne Shirley. At Ingleside, Anne is now happily married to her childhood friend the devoted Gilbert Blythe and have now been together blissfully for fifteen years and they have six children. But the ...
„The Story Girl” is a beautifully-written classic by L. M. Montgomery. A perfect piece of literature that could be enjoyed by anyone, young or old. It narrates the adventures of a group of young cousins and their friends who live in a rural community on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The book is narrated by Beverley, who together with his brother Felix, has come to live with his Aunt Janet and Uncle Alec King on their farm while their father travels for business. The narrati...
Jane Stewart lives with her unhappy mother and stern grandmother in a dreary old mansion in Toronto. It is a world of rules and unhappiness. Her mother is weak and unable to stand up to Jane’s grandmother and Jane stoically suffers daily from her grandmother’s verbal bullying. One day she discovers that the father she had long believed dead is alive and wants her to visit him. What follows is a blissful summer on Prince Edward Island where a dream of bringing her parents to...
„Further Chronicles of Avonlea” is another wonderful collection of charming Avonlea short stories by Lucy Maud Montgomery, ranging from the humorous to melodramatic, and every bit as enticing and delightful as the first book, „Chronicles of Avonlea”. Published in 1920, it includes fifteen short and entertaining, funny, and romantic stories relating to the inhabitants of the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea and its region, located on Prince Edward Island. The author bri...
„Emily of New Moon” by L.M. Montgomery, published in 1923, is the start of a trilogy of novels about Emily Byrd Starr that invites comparison with the beloved Anne of Green Gables series. The Emily novels depicted life through the eyes of a young orphan girl, Emily Starr, who is raised by her relatives after her father dies of tuberculosis. Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding her head high and using her quick wit. Things begi...
On Prince Edward Island, where Anne Shirley grew up in the sea-sprayed town of Avonlea, there was no shortage of wonderful stories. In „Chronicles of Avonlea”, a delightful collection of twelve short stories about the inhabitants of Avonlea and other nearby villages, we meet lovely new characters and relive many stories that inspired various episodes on Road to Avonlea. Focusing on universal themes about mankind, the book conveys the flaws of critical behavior that is sure ...
Książki do słuchania to jeden z najchętniej wybieranych formatów, gdy mowa o najmłodszych czytelnikach. Te nagrania dźwiękowe, w których tekst publikacji odczytywany jest przez lektora lub lektorkę, cieszą się dużą popularnością zarówno wśród dzieci, jak i rodziców. W ten sposób pociechy poznają nie tylko najnowsze bajki dla dzieci, ale także klasyczne pozycje z dzieciństwa swoich rodziców. Audiobooki dla dzieci rozśmieszają, wzruszają i uczą zarówno młodsze, jak i starsze dzieci. Specjalnie wyselekcjonowany wybór tytułów, jaki znajdziecie na Woblink, gwarantuje, że odkryjecie tutaj pozycje dostosowane do potrzeb i upodobań najmłodszych. Często znajdziemy w nich jasno zarysowany konflikt pomiędzy dobrem a złem, z którego rozwiązania płyną nie tylko walory rozrywkowe, ale także edukacyjne. Dostępność książek do słuchania dla dzieci w formacie mp3 gwarantuje szeroką kompatybilność z urządzeniami do odtwarzania audiobooków. Dzieła takich autorów jak Kornel Makuszyński, Henryk Sienkiewicz czy Hans Christian Andersen zachwycą w wersji audiobooka nie tylko dzieci, ale także rodziców.
Wybór najlepszego audiobooka dla dzieci może nie być łatwy - czeka tu bowiem wiele ciekawych tytułów. Warto przede wszystkim dostosować tytuł do wieku młodego czytelnika. Dla niektórych ciekawe będą przygody detektywa Sherlocka Holmesa autorstwa Artura Conana Doyle’a czy “Szatan z siódmej klasy” Kornela Makuszyńskiego. Nieco młodsze dzieci z pewnością chętnie wysłuchają historii Mikołajka z serii opowiadań René Goscinnego i Jean-Jacquesa Sampé, czy przygód z Doliny Muminków Tove Jansson. Najmłodsi na pewno będą świetnie bawić się z kotem Cukierkiem w jego przygodach autorstwa Waldemara Cichonia. Najważniejsze, żeby czytelnicy na długo zapamiętali opowieści z danego audiobooka. Każdy dorosły ma przecież jakiś ulubiony tytuł z dzieciństwa - i właśnie taka książka do słuchania jest dla dzieci najlepsza. Może będzie nią, znany z pewnością także rodzicom, Pan Samochodzik Arkadiusza Niemirskiego? Albo seria Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza Lucy Maud Montgomery? Niedawno Wydawnictwo Marginesy opublikowało jej nowe tłumaczenie, bliższą oryginałowi “Anne z Zielonych Szczytów” oraz “Anne z Avonlea”, przełożoną przez Annę Bańkowską.
Niezmiennie wysoką popularnością wśród najmłodszych cieszą się audiobooki z bajkami. Najchętniej czytanymi książkami do słuchania dla dzieci od lat pozostają baśnie autorstwa Hansa Christiana Andersena, takie jak “Księżniczka na ziarnku grochu”, “Nowe szaty cesarza” czy “Calineczka”. Także bracia Grimm od dawna władają wyobraźnią młodszych czytelników. “Czerwony kapturek”, “Jaś i Małgosia”, “Kopciuszek”, “Śnieżka” - kto z nas nie zna tych historii? Nie mniejsze zainteresowanie wzbudzają klasyczne wiersze Jana Brzechwy, które często są w ogóle jednymi z pierwszych spotkań dzieci z poezją. Brzechwa to także autor chętnie słuchanej książki “Akademia Pana Kleksa”, czytanej między innymi przez Krzysztofa Kolbergera. “Lokomotywa”, “Rzepka”, “Słoń Trąbalski” lub “Ptasie radio” to ponadczasowe bajki wierszowane Juliana Tuwima, które kochają zarówno dzieci, jak i rodzice. Szczególne miejsce wśród audiobooków z bajkami dla dzieci zajmują także dzieła Wandy Chotomskiej. “Tadek Niejadek”, “Kareta z piernika”, “Dzieci Pana Astronoma” czy “Smok ze smoczej jamy” - nie sposób przejść obok nich obojętnie! “Wesołe przedszkole” Marii Kownackiej to także jeden z najchętniej słuchanych audiobooków dla najmłodszych, podobnie jak “Na jagody” Marii Konopnickiej. Tak rodzicom, jak i dzieciom na pewno znana jest seria Magiczne drzewo autorstwa Andrzeja Maleszki - jeden z tomów czyta Julia Kamińska, a drugi Marcin Dorociński! Nie da się obojętnie przejść także wobec takich klasyków literatury dziecięcej jak “ Kubuś Puchatek” czy “Chatka Puchatka” Alana Alexandra Milne'a. W polskiej wersji tę książkę do słuchania czyta w dodatku Janusz Gajos. “Doktor Dolittle” Hugh Loftinga ucieszy każdą miłośniczkę i miłośnika zwierząt.
Wybór najlepszego audiobooka dla młodszych czytelników to nie lada wyzwanie. Bez względu na wiek z pewnością dobrym wyborem będzie któraś z książek Kornela Makuszyńskiego. “Przygody Koziołka Matołka” wciągną wszystkich, dużych i małych. Audiobook z powieścią “Szaleństwa Panny Ewy” z pewnością przywoła miłe wspomnienia także u rodziców, a głos Wojciecha Malajkata na wiele godzin zamieszka w głowach dzieci. A może są one zainteresowane greckimi mitami? Nie ma lepszego audiobooka na taką okoliczność jak “Mitologia” Jana Parandowskiego. Zarówno ten tytuł, jak i “Przygody Odyseusza” czyta Wiktor Zborowski, swoim charakterystycznym głosem tworząc niesamowitą atmosferę. Dzieciom marzą się podróże? Juliusz Verne i jego “W 80 dni dookoła świata” tylko czekają na wysłuchanie! W planach jest też wyprawa pozaziemska w “Podróż na księżyc” albo w nieznane zakamarki naszego globu w “20 tysięcy mil podmorskiej żeglugi” czy “Podróży do wnętrza Ziemi”. Skoro już o nieznanych światach mowa - Terry Pratchett poleca swoje książki do słuchania wszystkim trochę starszym dzieciom! Nie sposób oderwać się od kolejnych powieści z cyklu “Świat Dysku”. Fantastyczne historie wypełniają także jego “Dobry Omen” napisany wspólnie z Neilem Gaimanem. Obok nich melduje się “Banda z Burej” Magdaleny Witkiewicz - seria pełna tajemnic, zagadek i śledztw prowadzonych przez rezolutne dzieci. “ Koszmarny Karolek” to cudowna, zabawna seria opowiadań, której autorką jest Francesca Simon. Przygody niezbyt grzecznego, ciekawskiego i zainteresowanego zawsze nie tym co należy Karolka z miejsca podbijają serca najmłodszych. Seria “Baśniobór” Brandona Mulla oferuje z kolei pełne zwrotów akcji i niesamowitych postaci powieści fantastyczne. Każde dziecko z łatwością znajdzie swoją ulubioną książkę do czytania wśród wielu audiobooków, które znajdziecie na Woblink.
