Mother Goose in Prose: An Audiobook

This audio reading of Mother Goose in Prose was recorded by a group of volunteer readers. Here is who read each part, along with the length of each recording.

Readers featured in this recording:
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.

Contents

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:

• 128 kbit MP3 (found in the MP3 subfolder)
• 64 kbit Ogg Vorbis, a variable bit rate format (found in the OGG subfolder)
• Apple AAC audiobook, 16 kbit mono (found in the M4B subfolder)
• Speex format (found in the SPX subfolder)