The Listening Grove
Fifty Famous Stories Retold
James Baldwin’s short stories of courage, character, and history, read aloud one story per page, with vocabulary, Key Places, narration support, and a Charlotte Mason lesson. This is a Kindred Thicket Enhanced Edition: you hear Baldwin’s 1896 words as written, and the Teacher’s Notes tell you where a story is history and where it is a beloved legend.
One lesson, three ways
The stories
- 1King Alfred and the Cakes
- 2King Alfred and the Beggar
- 3King Canute on the Seashore
- 4The Sons of William the Conqueror
- 5The White Ship
- 6King John and the Abbot
- 7A Story of Robin Hood
- 8Bruce and the Spider
- 9The Black Douglas
- 10Three Men of Gotham
- 11Other Wise Men of Gotham
- 12The Miller of the Dee
- 13Sir Philip Sidney
- 14The Ungrateful Soldier
- 15Sir Humphrey Gilbert
- 16Sir Walter Raleigh
- 17Pocahontas
- 18George Washington and His Hatchet
- 19Grace Darling
- 20The Story of William Tell
- 21Arnold Winkelried
- 22The Bell of Atri
- 23How Napoleon Crossed the Alps
- 24The Story of Cincinnatus
- 25The Story of Regulus
- 26Cornelia's Jewels
- 27Androclus and the Lion
- 28Horatius at the Bridge
- 29Julius Caesar
- 30The Sword of Damocles
- 31Damon and Pythias
- 32A Laconic Answer
- 33The Ungrateful Guest
- 34Alexander and Bucephalus
- 35Diogenes the Wise Man
- 36The Brave Three Hundred
- 37Socrates and His House
- 38The King and His Hawk
- 39Doctor Goldsmith
- 40The Kingdoms
- 41The Barmecide Feast
- 42The Endless Tale
- 43The Blind Men and the Elephant
- 44Maximilian and the Goose Boy
- 45The Inchcape Rock
- 46Whittington and His Cat
- 47Casabianca
- 48Antonio Canova
- 49Picciola
- 50Mignon
More stories are added to the Grove as they are prepared.