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by Louisa May Alcott
Read by Carol Drinkwater. This popular novel about the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, is loved for its warm scenes of family life, especially Beth's epic struggle with scarlet fever. The remarkable strength of these women is still a model today. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
KAL001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by William H. Armstrong
Read by Avery Brooks. The Newbery Award Winner is a bittersweet tale set in the rural South of the 19th century and centers around a man and his dog, and the legacy of self-reliance, resilience, stoicism and hope he left his son. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
KAR001 / Buy $16 / Rent $5.75
by Judy Blume
Read by the author. As Peter goes into sixth grade, he is landed with an avalanche of changes: a baby sister, a move to New Jersey, his father home cooking and growing chinese vegetables instead of writing his book. The constant is his wacky younger brother Fudge, a one-person catastrophe. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
KBL001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Judy Blume
Read by the author. Peter's worst nightmare comes true when his parents decide to share a summer home with Sheila Tubman and her family. Sheila just happens to be one of Peter's most unfavorite people. (3.5 hrs. 2 cs.)
KBL002 / Buy $15.98 / Rent $5.75
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Read by Susan Fitzgerald. Orphaned in India, Mary Lennox is unloved and disagreeable. She is shipped off to England to live at Misselthwaite. There she finds an invalid cousin who never leaves his room, and a secret garden with enough magic to cure them both. (8 hrs. 6 cs.)
KBU002 / Buy $29.95 / Rent $12.25
(Abridged) Read by Gwen Watford. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
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by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Read by Julie Harris. A delightful story, brilliantly read. Sara Crew is the pampered daughter of rich parents. When her mother dies, she is sent to "a select seminary for young ladies." Some time later, her father loses his fortune and dies. Sara faces the misery of existing on charity, but finds a surprise friend. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
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by Lewis Carroll
Read by William Rushton. A classic of children's literature, filled with jokes and parodies for grown-ups to savor. Alice falls down a rabbit hole into a bewildering world where none of the usual rules apply, the characters she meets are rude and illogical, and even her size refuses to stay constant. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
KCA001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Lewis Carroll
Read by William Rushton. Alice's madcap adventures continue, as she walks through the mirror into a land populated by chess pieces, where everything happens backwards. This is the rare sequel that may actually surpass the original in its endless inventiveness. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
KCA002 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Lewis Carroll
Read by Donada Peters. A classic of childrenÕs literature, filled with jokes and parodies for grown-ups to savor. In the first volume, Alice falls down a rabbit hole into a bewildering world where none of the usual rules apply, the characters she meets are rude and illogical, and even her size refuses to stay constant. For the second volume, see the description below. (6 hrs. 6 cs.)
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by Susan Cooper
Read by David Rintoul. Canadian kids staying one summer in an ancient scottish castle inadvertently take home with them the local boggart, an invisible sprite, who is an accomplished practical joker and mischief-maker. (5 hrs. 4 cs.)
KCO002 / Buy $29.98 / Rent $10.25
by Roald Dahl
Read by the author. Five of the most beloved and well-known children's stories: "Charlie and the Cholcolate Factory," "James and the Giant Peach," " Fantastic Mr. Fox," " The Enormous Crocodile" and "The Magic Finger." (4 hrs. 4 cs.)
KDA002 / Buy $25 / Rent $10.25
by Carol Fenner
Read by Novella Nelson. Yolonda is a big, strong girl, and smarter than anyone in the fifth grade, well able to take care of her little brother Andrew. But their mother, a paralegal and police officer's widow, is worried about the dangers of the big city, and moves her family to a smaller town. As Yolonda is making new friends, somebody scares Andrew and silences his harmonica. It was his life-long friend, given to him by his father when he was a teething baby, the instrument on which he has always played the bacon sizzling and the freshness of early morning. Finally Yolonda notices, and sets out to show the world that her tiny brother is a musical genius. (5.25 hrs. 4 cs.)
KFE001 / Buy $18.99 / Rent $10.25
by Jean Craighead George
Read by Irene Worth. In this Newbery Award winner, an eskimo girl is lost in the wilds of Alaska and becomes a member of a pack of wolves. (1 hr. 1 cs.)
KGE001 / Buy $9.95 / Rent $4.75
by Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Read by Dana Ivey. A dozen carrot-topped, freckle-faced kids are marshalled through their early 20th century life by their psychologist mom and efficiency expert dad. This was a favorite book of Debby's when she was a kid, in love with all the time and motion study nonsense and the rambunctious houseful of children. Planned on having 12 kids.... (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
KGI001 / Buy $18.99 / Rent $10.25
by Rumer Godden
Read by Lynda Bellingham. Kizzy was a diddakoi, a half-gypsy, but the more the children at school tormented her, the more determined she was not to become one of them&emdash;the gorgios. But then Gran died, and Joe the old horse was to be sent to the knackers&emdash;and Kizzy to the gorgios. Luckily, in the midst of all this misery and interference, there were some people who loved Kizzy as she was&emdash;and this lonely outcast found a true home at last. (3.5 hrs. 3 cs.)
KGO001 / Buy $26.95 / Rent $8
by Kenneth Grahame
Read by Michael Hordern. One fine morning, Mole abandons his spring cleaning and surfaces into the sunlight and warm grass of a great meadow. Rambling busily along the hedgerows, he comes suddenly to the edge of a river. Mole is entranced. He meets the River Rat and stays with him in his snug waterside home where the river laps at the sill of the window, meeting Ratty's Wild Wood friend Badger and the incorrigible Toad of Toad Hall. (7 hrs. 6 cs.)
KGR003 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by H. Rider Haggard
Read by Joe Vincent. This original cliff hanger is a classic adventure tale set deep in the heart of Africa. A trio of adventurers set out on a perilous journey in search of the mythically gigantic diamond mines of King Solomon. Encountering a lost african tribe, they are caught up in a tribal struggle, witchcraft, and a bloody and deadly civil war. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
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by Earl Hamner, Jr.
Read by Richard Thomas. When Clay Spencer fails to get home as expected on Xmas eve 1933, his oldest son goes in search of his father, leaving his mother and seven siblings at home. It turned out to be a wild night&emdash;an encounter with an enraged deer and the fearsome county sheriff, a visit with the local black community church and with two elderly genteel lady bootleggers&emdash;before everyone was safely at home together again. (212 hrs. 2 cs.)
KHA002 / Buy $16.95 / Rent $5.75
by Brian Jacques
Read by the author with a full cast. Jacques was catapulted to international fame when Redwall, first in a series of related books, was published in 1987. This is a tale jam-packed with adventure, danger, laughter, tragedy, mystery, a touch of wonder, a truly despicable villain and a hero we can take to heart, a mouse named Matthias. His cohorts on the quest to find his true destiny include the stalwart badger Constance, the irrepressible hare Basil, and the elderly wisemouse Methuselah. "My favorite part is the attention paid to meals and the fanciful names for forest-animal-food dishes!"ÑDebby (3 hrs. 3 cs.)
by Rudyard Kipling
Read by Eartha Kitt et al. Set in India, here are seven beast fables from The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book, all featuring Mowgli, the boy who was raised by wolves. Taught the laws and lore of the jungle by Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo the bear, Mowgli must use his wits to fend off his archenemy, the tiger Shere Khan. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
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by Rudyard Kipling
Read by Madhav Sharma. This award winner is the story of an orphaned son of a sergeant in the Irish Regiment in colonial India. Kim is a vagabond in Lahore until he meets an old lama and accompanies him on his travels. The book paints a vivid portrait of India, its teeming populations and religions. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
KKI002 / Buy $11.60 / Rent $5.75
by Rudyard Kipling
Read by Margaret McKay. This is Kipling's time travel book. Two children are befriended by the fairy Puck, who takes them back to visit great moments of early british history from viking invasions to roman occupation to the signing of the Magna Carta. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
KKI004 / Buy $39.95 / Rent $10.25
by Rudyard Kipling
Read by Flo Gibson. These are enchanting tales about the dawn of the world, among them "How the Whale Got His Throat," "The Elephant's Child," "How The Leopard Got His Spots," "How The Alphabet Was Made, and "The Butterfly That Stamped." (4.5 hrs. 3 cs.)
KKI005 / Buy $23.50 / Rent $8
by Madeleine L'Engle
Read by the author. Newbery Award winner. Father is missing! His top-secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away. Meg, her younger brother Charles and their friend Calvin set out on an exciting adventure through time and space to search for him. (5.75 hrs. 4 cs.)
KLE004 / Buy $29.98 / Rent $10.25
by Madeleine L'Engle
Read by the author. Charles Wallace says there is a dragon in the garden. He may be sick, but he is right. The beast sweeps the boy, his sister and their friend off on an intergalactic journey that ends with fighting evil in the boy's bloodstream. (5 hrs. 4 cs.)
KLE005 / Buy $29.98 / Rent $10.25
by Madeleine L'Engle
Read by the author. Meg Murry O'Keefe is just sitting down to thanksgiving dinner with her family when her dad gets a call from the president about a madman threatening nuclear war. When Meg's brother Charles Wallace, now 15, recites an old irish rune, the unicorn Gaudior appears to help. Unicorn or not, they have less than 24 hours to avert global tragedy. (7.5 hrs. 6 cs.)
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by Marc Joel Levitt
Read by the author. John Chapman was a native of Massachusetts, who at age 31 began wandering through Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana sowing apple seeds, staying one step ahead of the pioneers in order to sell apple seedlings to them as they passed through. Known for his humanitarian values, his cheerfulness, his generosity and his mystical relationship with nature, he spent 40 years as Johnny Appleseed. (.75 hrs. 1 cs.)
KLE006 / Buy $12 / Rent $4.75
by C.S. Lewis
Consists of four classic children's adventures in a spellbinding world called Narnia: "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" read by Ian Richardson; "Prince Caspian" read by Claire Bloom; "The Silver Chair" read by Ian Richardson; and "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" read by Anthony Quayle. (4 hrs. 4 cs.)
KLE003 / Buy $29.95 / Rent $10.25
by Patricia MacLachlan
Read by Glenn Close. Anna and Caleb's world changes when their papa advertises for a mail-order bride. A heartwarming story about the essential ingredients of family life. (1 hr. 1 cs.)
KMA004 / Buy $11 / Rent $4.75
by Gretchen Miller
Read by the author. Gretchen Miller travels to schools and libraries delighting children, their parents and grandparents with these magical tales. For ages 4 & up: "Epaminondas," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Rapunzel." For ages 9 & up: "Phaeton," "Androcles and the Lion," "Orpheus and Eurydice." (1 hr. 1 cs.)
KMI003 / Buy $9.95 / Rent $4.75
by A.A. Milne
Read by Nigel Hawthorne. Milne's fine sense of whimsy brings to life the gentle creatures of the Hundred Acre Wood, each with its own personality: honey-loving Pooh Bear, fearful Piglet, and the gloomy donkey, Eeyore. Originally written for the author's son, here called Christopher Robin, these nine stories continue to delight. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
KMI001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by A.A. Milne
Read by Peter Dennis. Dennis's performance takes us to an Enchanted Place, the Hundred Acre Wood where live Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga and Roo, and friends. It has won accolades on all sides, including this from Christopher Robin Milne: "Éif you want to meet the real Pooh, the bear I knew, the bear my father wrote about, listen to Peter Dennis." (4 hrs. 4 cs.)
KMI004 / Buy $22.95 / Rent $10.25
by L.M. Montgomery
Read by Megan Follows. The Cuthberts decided to adopt a sturdy young boy to help with the farm chores; when the orphanage sent Anne, a mischievous redhead, they thought the girl would be "of no use at all." Soon, however, no one could imagine life without her. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
KMO001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Scott O'Dell
Read by Tantoo Cardinal. In this Newbery winner, a native american girl is the last survivor on an island off the California coast after her village is wiped out in a war with otter-hunting Russians. Year after year, Karana waits for a ship to come for her, fighting off the wild dogs who killed her brother. This is a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery. (4 hrs. 3 cs.)
KOD001 / Buy $18.99 / Rent $8
by Katherine Paterson
Read by Moira Kelly. Paterson is one of the century's great writers for children and young adults. This is the vivid, exciting and moving story of an older twin, like the biblical Jacob's older twin Esau, living with her close-knit family on an isolated island in the Chesapeake Bay. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
KPA001 / Buy $16 / Rent $5.75
by Gary Paulsen
Read by Peter Coyote. On his way to visit his recently divorced father in the canadian mountains, the pilot of the single-engine plane has a heart attack and 13-year-old Brian miraculously survives the crash. His body battered, his clothes in shreds, Brian must find a way to survive in the canadian wilderness and he must discover some simple truths. Self-pity doesn't work. Despair doesn't work. (3.5 hrs. 3 cs.)
KPA002 / Buy $17.99 / Rent $8
by Gary Paulsen
Read by Richard Thomas. In the years since readers thrilled to Hatchet, the account of 13-year-old Brian's survival in the Canadian wilderness one summer following a plane crash, readers have asked again and again: what would happen if Brian were not rescued at the end of the summer, and had to face a winter alone? This is the answer. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
KPA003 / Buy $16.99 / Rent $5.75
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Read by Peter Strauss. Jody Baxter lives with his parents in the beautiful, wild, dangerous Florida scrub. He brings home an orphaned fawn, and from the beginning is faced with brutally difficult choices about the needs of his struggling family and community and his desire to keep the fawn as a pet. Pulitzer winner and modern classic. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
KRA002 / Buy $16.95 / Rent $5.75
by Wilson Rawls
Read by Richard Thomas. Since its publication 30 years ago, this heartwarming tale of a boy and his dogs has touched millions. Billy and his two dogs range the hills and river bottoms of cherokee country. Old Dawn has the brawn, Little Ann has the brains&emdash;and Billy has the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
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by Conrad Richter
Read by Robert Sean Leonard. 4-year-old John Butler was captured by the Lenni Lanapes and brought up as True Son, adopted by the great warrior Cuyloga. In thought, feelings and religion he grew up an indian. Then a treaty was signed, when all captives were to be returned to their own people. By then, True Son regarded all whites as his enemies. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
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by Gayle Ross and Joe Bruchac
Read by the authors. How Rabbit Tricked Otter and Other Cherokee Animal Stories is told by a cherokee woman who learned the stories from her grandmother and has told them for years across the US and Canada. The Boy Who Lived With Bears is from a storyteller who has amassed five volumes of iroquois and abenaki tales. Both are delightful collections with fables of "how the leopard got its spots" kind. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
KRO002 / Buy $25 / Rent $5.75
by Jack Schaefer
Read by Dick Cavett. "Call me Shane," said the mysterious stranger. To the boy he was a hero, even though his parents thought the man all in black was a danger to the valley. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
KSC001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Read by Keir Dullea. "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum." Young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map and faces off against Long John Silver, the peg-legged pirate. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
KST001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Robert Louis Stevenson
From the BBC Children's Series featuring Rikki Fulton as Ebenezer and David Rintoul as David Balfour. An exciting adventure story set in Scotland just after the Jacobite Rebellion led by Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745, about young David's life in the hands of his villainous uncle. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
KST004 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Theodore Taylor
Read by LeVar Burton. A little white boy was on a freighter hit by a torpedo during WWII and found himself beached and stranded on a caribbean island with a cat and a huge, stubborn, very old black man. Their struggle for survival, the boy's adjustment to blindness, and his growing understanding and appreciation of the old man make this a memorable tale. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
KTA001 / Buy $15.99 / Rent $5.75
by Mildred D. Taylor
Read by Lynne Thigpen. "Look out there Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain't never had to live on nobody's place but your own and long as I live and the family survives, you'll never have to." It wasn't easy for a black family in the South to hang on to land during the great depression: Papa went off to lay railroad tracks, Mama taught and ran the farm with Big Ma's help. Newbery winner. (8 hrs. 6 cs.)
KTA002 / Buy $32.95 / Rent $12.25
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Multivoice. Here begins one of the greatest sagas of all time; it is followed by The Lord of the Rings, found in the fiction section. Bilbo Baggins is the hobbit hero, assisted by the glorious wizard Gandalf, in his battles with the unspeakable, underground Gollum and the dreaded dragon Smaug. (For Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings trilogy, see the Fiction Section of this catalog. (5 hrs. 6 cs.)
KTO004 / Buy $29.95 / Rent $12.25
by Mark Twain
Read by Robby Benson. Children and adults will enjoy this classic story of childhood. Tom and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, begin by playing pranks, but their sense of adventure leads to danger as they discover a den of thieves and must rely on their ingenuity to survive. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
KTW001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Mark Twain
Read by Dick Cavett. A children's favorite and a great classic by the US's foremost humorist. Young Huck fakes his own death and, with runaway slave Jim, escapes on a raft down the Mississippi. Huck faces the world's cruelty and greed with simple honesty and a faith in right and wrong. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
KTW002 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Jim Weis
Read by the author. Tape 1: "King Midas," "Arachne," "Perseus and Medusa," "Adventures of Hercules." Tape 2: A delightful collection of stories from Japan, Spain, China, Senegal, Arabia, Native America. Weis has been telling stories for over 20 years. It is his belief that the successes of creative children in reading and writing all begin at the knee of a storyteller. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
KWE001 / Buy $19.90 / Rent $5.75
by E.B. White
Read by the author. A kindhearted little girl saves the life of a tiny pig called Wilbur. The pig's very best friend, however, is Charlotte, the gray spider who lives in the barn where he does. Wilbur's life is ideal, until a grumpy old sheep tells him what farmers do to pigs at christmastime. Wilbur's happiness is shattered, but Charlotte promises to come to his rescue. Duncan says that all the children of the world should hear this beautifully written, beautifully read book. (3.5 hrs. 3 cs.)
KWH001 / Buy $18.99 / Rent $8
by E.B. White
Read by Julie Harris. Stuart is a sophisticated mouse, equally at home at the Met, in Central Park or on Fifth Avenue. At the age of seven, Stuart embarks on the greatest quest of his life: the search for his friend, the bird Margalo. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
KWH002 / Buy $15.99 / Rent $5.75
by E.B. White
Read by the author. Louis is a Trumpeter Swan, but he has no voice. Though a human friend teaches him to read and write, Louis's lady love cannot read his romantic declarations. Louis's resolution to overcome these barriers leads him on a surprising adventure. (4.5 hrs. 4 cs.)
KWH003 / Buy $21.99 / Rent $10.25
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