Another short poem from Gelett Burgess' book of 1900 on politeness. Next podcast will be another Wordsworth favorite. Stay tuned! If you're enjoying these podcasts, please share them through social media or email, so your friends can enjoy them as well. I'm considering creating a CD/download collection of bedtime stories from the ol' days. I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions for stories you'd [...]
Thanks to Linda Jay Geldens for her spotlight post at http://www.baipa.info/! (Only a minor correction that the daughter living in "Los Angeles" is actually in the SF Bay Area.) Next podcast coming soon! And a new Sneak Preview will also appear soon - the science fiction novel AsterIce by B.L. Bates. That audio will be ready in time for holiday gift-giving for your sci-fi friends. Have [...]
This dates back to 1900. Goops and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants by Gelett Burgess. Very short - the second on Table Manners. I'd love to hear from listeners what table manners they were taught by their parents and what as parents they teach/have taught their kids. At my best friend's house we were to sit up straight and [...]
This dates back to 1900 - the page turn to the 20th century. I expect it must have been passed down to my mom from her mom, both of whom LOVED books and reading, based on the child's signature (my mom's) in pencil inside the cover. I remember this first poem from my childhood and delighting in it. The lengthy subtitle is: A Manual of Manners [...]
I used to read these stories from The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit as told by Julius Lester to my kids and the kids in our afterschool program. I believe that audiobooks carry on the oral storytelling tradition that is central to our understanding of who we are. Enjoy the voices of these characters so many of us have grown up [...]
This is the first story in Howard R. Garis' Uncle Wiggly's Story Book. This is a book that was my grandfather's, and I used to read the stories to my daughters when they were young. And although the stories often include gender bias (sweet little girls and mischievous little boys) that was typical of its time, the stories are delightful. In this podcast I chose [...]
The final segment of this lovely, sad, tender poem. I hope you've enjoyed it. If so, please share. And if you have a favorite poem or other piece in the public domain, let me know.
Continuing on with one of my favorite poems: The Ruined Cottage by William Wordsworth. There's still more to come!
Continuing on with one of my favorite poems: The Ruined Cottage by William Wordsworth. Enjoy!
This is one of my favorite poems of all time, so I thought I'd share it with you. William Wordsworth, the Romantic English poet, wrote this in 1797-98. He revised it several times before publishing it. The first time The Ruined Cottage was published as an independent poem was in 1949. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do, and that you'll tune [...]