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My Audio School exists to provide children with excellent audio content on a variety of school subjects in a format that they can easily use all by themselves.

Each book on My Audio School is broken down, chapter by chapter, so that children can listen to their daily assignments in manageable chunks. Links are provided for those who prefer to read the book online, or for parents who want to burn a book to CD or download it to Mp3.

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Posted 7 months ago at 12:53 am. 1 comment

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children by Edith Nesbit

Titania by Henry Meynell Rheam

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Shakespeare Émile_Bayard_-_As_you_like_it

Chapter 1 A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Chapter 2 The Tempest

Chapter 3 As you Like it

Chapter 4 The Winter’s Tale

Chapter 5 King Lear

Cordelia by William Frederick Yeames

Chapter 6 Twelfth Night

Chapter 7 Much Ado about Nothing

Chapter 8 Romeo and Juliet

Juliet by Philip_H._Calderon

Chapter 9 Pericles

Chapter 10 Hamlet

Chapter 11 Cymbeline

Chapter 12 Macbeth

"Macbeth seeing the ghost of Banquo" by Théodore Chassériau

Chapter 13 Comedy of Errors

Chapter 14 Merchant of Venice

chapter 15 Timon of Athens

Shakespeare Death_of_Desdemona Othello

Chapter 16 Othello

Chapter 17 The Taming of the Shrew

William Hunt's Claudio and Isabella from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure

Chapter 18 Measure for Measure

Chapter 19 Two Gentlemen of Verona

Chapter 20 All’s Well that Ends Well

Posted 7 months ago at 11:27 pm. Add a comment

A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

Monet Water lilies 1917-1919

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Flowers on the windowsill by Carl Larsson

A Child’s Garden of Verses

The Child Alone

Carl Larsson, Lisbeth Fishing

Garden Days

Envoys

Posted 7 months ago at 11:23 pm. Add a comment

Stories of King Arthur’s Knights Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor

King Arthur, John William Waterhouse,  Tristan and Isolde

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King Arthur, John Collier, Queen Guinevre's Maying

About this book

Geraint and Enid

Lancelot and Elaine

Boys' King Arthur, N. C. Wyeth, Sir Lancelot

Pelleas and Etarde

Gareth and Lynette

King Arthur Rescue of Guinevere by Hatherell

Sir Galahad and the Sacred Cup

The Death of King Arthur

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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech

Parents, please do not allow your children to peruse YouTube (or any other video sharing site) alone, and preview all video content before sharing with your children.

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Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children by H. E. Marshall

Crazywell Cross

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Chapter 1, How Grendel the Ogre Warred with the Dane Folk

Chapter 2, How Beowulf the Goth came to Daneland

Chapter 3, Beowulf Telleth How He Warred with the Sea Folk

Chapter 4, How Beowulf Overcame Grendel the Ogre

Chapter 5, How the Water Witch Warred with the Dane Folk

Chapter 6, How Beowulf Overcame the Water Witch

Chapter 7, How Beowulf Returned to his Own Land

Beowulf Wealhtheow

Chapter 8, How the Fire Dragon warred with the Goth Folk

Chapter 9, How Beowulf Overcame the Dragon

Chapter 10, Beowulf’s Last Rest

Posted 7 months ago at 10:48 am. Add a comment

The Pacific Story radio drama, selected episodes

Able crossroads, atomic bomb detonated in 1946 by the U.S. Army at Bikini Atoll as part of Operation Crossroads

Here are some episodes from The Pacific Story radio show. The Pacific Story was broadcast weekly by NBC radio as a documentary from 1943 to 1947, lasting about 184 weeks. The show was designed to teach the American people something about the history of the nations around the Pacific rim.

Pacific Alaska-Yukon International Border

Japan’s Dream of World Dominion

Alaska: America’s New Frontier

Siberia: America’s Nearest Asiatic Neighbor

The Old China

The New China

Pacific Evening monsoonal squall, photo copyrighted by Bidgee, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license

Monsoon Asia: The Geography of Rice and Rain

Monsoon Asia: Adventurer and International Rivalry

India from Clive to Ghandi

The Islands of the Pacific

Pacific Small Beach on Pulau Aur, the copyright holder of this work, Singaporean, allows anyone to use it for any purpose

World War I in the Pacific

The Manchurian Incident and its Sequel

China’s Exiled Universities

Burma: Keystone to the Far East

The Soviet Asiatics: A New Human World

The Chinese Revolution

The Philippines and their Fight for Freedom

Chiang Kai-shek, 1945, user Militaryace added color to the black and white original, released image into the public domain

Chang Kai Shek: Freedom and Equality

Australia: Rising Power in the Pacific

Japan’s Dynasty of Terror: The Black Dragon Society

Thailand: The Enslavement of a Free People

Indo-China: The Collapse of the French Empire in the Pacific


The Beggars of the Sea

Jose Rizal: Patriot Martyr of the Philippines

Charles W. Bartlett 'Surf-Riders, Honolulu'. 1919, Color woodcut, Honolulu Academy of Arts

Hawaii: Melting Pot of the Pacific

New Zealand: Sealane Center of the South Pacific

India at War

General Tojo: The Razor

A Japanese propaganda lithograph rallying for occupation of the Russian Far East. Blagoveschensk intervention

The Case of Russia vs. Japan

The Japanese Navy

The Chinese Communists

Chinese Communist troops marched north (1945)

The Long March

The Yangtze

The Yellow River

Mao Tse Tung and Nikita Khrushchev, during the Russian leader's 1958 visit to Peking

Mao Tse Tung

A school of untouchables near Bangalore by Lady Ottoline Morrell

Untouchables of India

Silk: The Golden Thread

Pacific silk cocoon Bombyx mori Cocon, image by Gerd A.T. Mueller, licensed under GNU Free Documentation License

Hawaii: The 49th state (the end of this broadcast is clipped)

Liliuokalani of Hawaii

Special Broadcast: The atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll

The Philippines: The Birth of a Nation

Guam: New Outpost in the Pacific

The entire series The Pacific Story can be found here.

Posted 7 months ago at 12:12 am. Add a comment

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island Scribner's 1911

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Treasure Island, N. C. Wyeth

01 At the Admiral Benbow – 02 Black Dog Appears and Disappears

03 The Black Spot – 04 The Sea Chest

Treasure Island Blind Pew by N. C. Wyeth

05 The Last of the Blind Man – 06 The Captain’s Papers

07 I go to Bristol – 08 At the Sign of the Spy-Glass


09 Powder and Arms – 10 The Voyage

Treasure Island Preparing for Mutiny by N. C. Wyeth

11 What I Heard in the Apple Barrel – 12 Council of War

13 How my Shore Adventure happend – 14 The First Blow

15 The Man of the Island – 16 Narrative continued by the Doctor

17 Narrative continued by the Doctor – 18 Narrative continued by the Doctor

Treasure Island Jim, Long John Silver and his Parrot by N. C. Wyeth

19 Narrative resumed by Jim Hawkins – 20 Silver’s Embassy

21 The Attack – 22 How my Sea Adventure Began

23 The Ebb-Tide Runs – 24 The Voyage of the Coracle


25 I Strike the Jolly Roger – 26 Israel Hands


Treasure Island Knife Fight between Pirates by N. C. Wyeth

27 Pieces of Eight – 28 In the Enemy’s Camp


29 The Black Spot Again – 30 On Parole

31 The Treaure Hunt, Flint’s Pointer – 32 The Treasure Hunt, the Voice Among the Trees

33 The Fall of a Chieftan – 34 And Last

Posted 7 months ago at 6:19 pm. Add a comment

You are there! The Rise of Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great quelling the Opis mutiny by Andre Castaigne

You are there! The Rise of Alexander the Great: Peace offer

You are there! The Rise of Alexander the Great: Battle for Asia

You are there! The Rise of Alexander the Great: Mutiny in India

Posted 7 months ago at 5:54 pm. Add a comment

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Fall of the Berlin wall, 1989, published under GNU Free Documentation License by copyright holder Lear 21

Parents, please do not allow your children to peruse YouTube (or any other video sharing site) alone, and preview all video content before sharing with your children.

ABC News Broadcast of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Here is another video clip, this time of Regan at the Brandenburg Gate, pleading with Gorbachev to “Tear down this wall!”

Parents, please do not allow your children to peruse YouTube (or any other video sharing site) alone, and preview all video content before sharing with your children.

Posted 7 months ago at 2:06 pm. Add a comment

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