A Book for Kids
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Narrated by:
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Colin Friels
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By:
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C. J. Dennis
About this listen
C. J. Dennis dedicated his work A Book for Kids to 'good children over four and under 84'. First published in 1921, this is a marvellous collection of verse and stories full of vitality and fun told by well-known actor Colin Friels.
This selection of familiar poems and stories includes:
- 'The Sailor'
- 'Our Cow'
- 'The Porter'
- 'The Looking Glass'
- 'The Triantiwontigongolope'
- 'The Circus'
- 'The Long Road Home'
- 'The Music of Your Voice'
- 'Woolloomooloo'
- 'The Pieman'
- 'Cuppacumalonga'
- 'The Ant Explorer'
- 'The Barber'
- 'The Spotted Heifers'
- 'The Teacher'
- 'A Change of Air'
- 'Hist!'
- 'Going to School'
- 'The Postman'
- 'Tea Talk'
- 'Upon the Road to Rockabout'
- 'You and I'
- 'The Baker'
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