About This Recording of Mother Goose in Prose

This story collection was read out loud by many different people. Here is the list of readers:

Barbara Wedge, Westwinds12, Patricia Oakley, Andrew Lebrun, Christie Nowak, Julian Jamison, Cynthia Lyons, JemmaBlythe, Charlene Harris, Judy Bierber, Christiane Levesque, Brennan Holtzclaw, and David Barnes.

What's Inside

Introduction — 9 minutes, 55 seconds
Read by Barbara Wedge

Sing a Song o' Sixpence — 14 minutes, 10 seconds
Read by Westwinds12

Little Boy Blue — 18 minutes, 22 seconds
Read by Westwinds12

The Cat and the Fiddle — 10 minutes
Read by Westwinds12

The Black Sheep — 9 minutes, 57 seconds
Read by Westwinds12

Old King Cole — 13 minutes, 6 seconds
Read by Westwinds12

Mistress Mary — 17 minutes, 36 seconds
Read by Patricia Oakley

The Wondrous Wise Man — 12 minutes, 14 seconds
Read by Andrew Lebrun

What Little Jack Horner Did — 9 minutes, 39 seconds
Read by Christie Nowak

The Man in the Moon — 12 minutes, 29 seconds
Read by Julian Jamison

The Jolly Miller — 10 minutes, 59 seconds
Read by Christie Nowak

The Little Man and His Little Gun — 11 minutes, 42 seconds
Read by Cynthia Lyons

Hickory Dickory Dock — 10 minutes, 32 seconds
Read by Patricia Oakley

Little Bo-Peep — 12 minutes, 8 seconds
Read by Barbara Wedge

The Story of Tommy Tucker — 10 minutes, 35 seconds
Read by JemmaBlythe

Pussy Cat Mew — 7 minutes, 27 seconds
Read by Patricia Oakley

How the Beggars Came to Town — 19 minutes, 18 seconds
Read by Charlene Harris

Tom the Piper's Son — 8 minutes, 21 seconds
Read by Judy Bieber

Humpty Dumpty — 16 minutes, 22 seconds
Read by Patricia Oakley

The Woman Who Lived in a Shoe — 11 minutes
Read by Christiane Levesque

Little Miss Muffet — 11 minutes, 49 seconds
Read by Brennan Holtzclaw

Three Wise Men of Gotham — 16 minutes, 14 seconds
Read by David Barnes

Little Bun Rabbit — 12 minutes, 29 seconds
Read by Judy Bieber

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Audio Formats Available

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• 128kbit MP3 – found in the MP3 folder
• 64kbit Ogg Vorbis (a type of audio file with changing sound quality) – found in the OGG folder
• Apple AAC audiobook (16kbit, single-channel sound) – found in the M4B folder
• Speex (another audio format) – found in the SPX folder