History Childhood

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    • By: Rosemary Kingston - editor
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-04
    • Language: English
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    • Here is a timeless and wonderful collection from the best sources of fairy tales: Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Antoine Galland....

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    • By: James Daugherty
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-05
    • Language: English
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    • In the rich turbulence of English history, one day stands magnificently apart: June 15, 1215, the day of the signing of the Magna Charta....

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    • The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football
    • By: Jim Dent
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-19
    • Language: English
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    • In the 1930s and '40s, there was nothing bigger in Texas high school football than the Masonic Home Mighty Mites - a group of orphans bound together by hardship and death. These youngsters, in spite of being outweighed by at least 30 pounds per man, were the toughest football team around....

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    • By: Maxim Gorky
    • Narrated by: Nicholad Boulton
    • Series: Autobiography of Maxim Gorky, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-21
    • Language: English
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    • Published in 1913, My Childhood is the first in an autobiographical trilogy by the Russian writer and five-time Nobel Prize-nominee Maxim Gorky. Painfully moving in places, the book tells of the experiences of a young boy....

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    • From Thunderbirds to Beatlemania
    • By: Paul Feeney
    • Narrated by: Alan Turton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-23
    • Language: English
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    • Take a nostalgic look at what it was like to grow up during the sixties and recapture all aspects of life back then....

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    • A Fable of Medieval Magic
    • By: Avi
    • Narrated by: John Curliss
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-05
    • Language: English
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    • Hiding from a cadaverous stalker in 1046 England, Thorston races to unleash the magical charms from the diabolical Book Without Words....

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    • By: Peter Gray
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that our children, if free to pursue their own interests through play, will not only learn all they need to know but will do so with energy and passion....

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    • The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
    • By: John Taylor Gatto
    • Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-12
    • Language: English
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    • Thirty years in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine....

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    • The Childhood History of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy
    • By: Charlotte Yonge
    • Narrated by: David Thorn
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-08
    • Language: English
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    • Based on historical fact, full of intrigue and chivalry, this is the romantic childhood history of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy....

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    • By: Johann David Wyss
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-04
    • Language: English
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    • Inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, this uplifting tale relates a family's ingenuity and courage as they struggle to survive on an exotic tropical island....

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    • An African Childhood
    • By: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-03
    • Language: English
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    • Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....

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    • From Bomb Sites to Children's Hour
    • By: James Marsh
    • Narrated by: Alan Turton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a decade of great challenge for everyone who lived through it....

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    • Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
    • By: Annette Lareau
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-11
    • Language: English
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    • Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....

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    • By: Michael Dorris
    • Narrated by: Eliza, Reilly Duggan
    • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-05
    • Language: English
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    • Through the alternating voices of 12-year-old Morning Girl and her younger brother Star Boy, we step into the extraordinarily rich lives of an indigenous family on a Bahamian Island in 1492....

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    • By: Mark Mazower
    • Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-05
    • Language: English
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    • In this fascinating work, winner of the Wolfson Prize for History Mark Mazower uncovers the history of the Balkans with detail and clarity....

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