A delightful little poem about flowers is followed by a salutary lesson on the sneakiness of foxes and the gullibility of bears. Ouch! But Mr....

A salutory lesson that even Emperors and Kings can be every bit as stupid and as easily fooled as you or I! In this first part, the clothes-mad...

The fantastic tale of how a lazy little Chinese boy met a magician, discovered a magic lamp, a few genies and a treasure trove of sparkling jewels...

Another of Roy Bowen's delightful excursions into the surreal. Don't be misled by the picture - it's a frivolous visual pun for anyone knowing...

The miracle in which Jesus and his disciples feed a crowd of over 5,000 people from just 5 loaves and 2 fishes... and still have enough left over...

You might have heard of the legendary highwayman Dick Turpin... but I bet you never knew he was born a Swede? And - before Max Clifford allegedly...

A classic poem of powerful imagery and great poignancy...

The story of how tiny Tom Thumb (TT) - the smallest of 7 brothers - used his sharp wits to help his brothers to overcome an amazing series of...

The delightfully nonsensical saga of unrequited love between the Yonghy Bonghy Bo and Mrs. Jingly Jones...

The darkly chilling legend of how an evil German bishop's cruel deeds were avenged by hordes of rats...

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Its a website that contains hundreds of newly recorded audio files of classic children's stories, verse, nursery rhymes and nonsense poems.

Why not browse on our virtual bookshelves (click the tab marked 'Audio Library' in the head of this website) and listen to samples of each work? Written by the greatest story tellers of their time, professionally voiced for todays young ears, these stories will conjure up a myriad of memories from your own childhood.

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