Edward Lear has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 14 narrators, with an average listener rating of 1★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is The Big Book of Bedtime Stories.
The Big Book of Bedtime Stories
Summary
An enchanting collection of classic stories and rhymes for younger listeners. Warning - you may be tempted to stay up all night listening!"The Land of Storybooks", "Gold Tree and Silver Tree", "The Elephant's Child", "The Owl and the Pussy Cat", "How Beauty Contrived to Get Square with the Beast", "The Enchanted Pig", "The Beginning of the Armadillos", "The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet", "The Frog Who Would a-Wooing Go", "The Cat That Walked by Himself", "Jack and his Comrades", "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", "Fair Brown and Trembling", "The Storyteller", "The Frog Princess", "The Magic Fishbone", "The Nettle Spinner", and "How Little Red Riding Hood Contrived to Be Eaten".
Public Domain (P)2011 Red Door Audiobooks
Great Poems for Children
Summary
An anthology of over 50 classic children's poems, read by some of our finest actors. Full of fun, excitement, and magic, the poems in this collection are guaranteed to spark the imagination and open up a world of wonder. There are animal poems ("The Duck and the Kangaroo", "Goosie Goosie Gander", and "How Doth the Little Crocodile"), nonsense poems ("The Quangle Wangle's Hat", "The Dong with a Luminous Nose", and "Jabberwocky"), nursery rhymes ("Hey Diddle Diddle", "One Potato"), and lullabies ("Hush Little Baby") - not to mention a wealth of humorous verse. Favourites from authors such as Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Louis Stevenson are all here, as well as less familiar but nonetheless hugely entertaining poems such as" The Camel's Complaint"and "The Elephant, or The Force of Habit". Vividly read by Alex Jennings, Emilia Fox, Geoffrey Palmer and Julia McKenzie, these delightful poems will appeal to children of all ages.
Public Domain (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Utter Nonsense of Edward Lear
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A fine selection of hand-picked classics from the master of nonsense, enthusiastically narrated by Colin Jones. This collection contains some of Mr Lear's finest works: "How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear" "The Jumblies" "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" "The Pobble Who Has No Toes" "The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker and the Tongs" "Mr and Mrs Discobbolos" "The Dong With a Luminous Nose" "The Duck and the Kangaroo" "The Daddy Long-legs and the Fly" "The New Vestments" "The Quanglewangle's Hat" "The Two Old Bachelors" "Incidents in the Life of my Uncle Arly" "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò" And more!
Public Domain (P)2017 Potassium Frog Ltd
Nonsense
Summary
Edward Lear was an English artist and poet who loved writing nonsense. He is known for popularizing the limerick, a bouncy sort of poem that is often nonsensical and amusing rather than formal or traditional. These poems, stories, and songs are utterly silly, with much of the charm being in the rhythm and rhymes with which they can be read aloud. The Book of Nonsense was anonymously published in 1846, with 72 limericks about all sorts of nonsense subjects, like an old man with a beard full of birds, a volcano scientist whose work gets ironically burnt in a volcano, and a woman whose nose was so long she needed a hired hand to carry it. These poems are nonsensical and silly. Nonsense Songs and Stories was another of Edward Lear’s nonsense publications. Unlike Book of Nonsense, this book consists mainly of longer songs and stories instead of quick limericks. The songs and stories are still silly though, about personified insects and objects, children sailing to islands made of chocolates and talking vegetables. This book contains the author’s personal favorite of his songs: “The Owl and the Pussycat”, about an owl and cat sailing on a boat made of honey and a piece of paper money, exploring the world and falling in love.
Public Domain (P)2021 InAudio
Classic Poems for Boys
Summary
Classic Poems for Boys comprises a delightfully varied set of over 20 poems for 5- to 10-year olds. From rousing favorites like Felicia Dorothea Hemans’ "Casabianca" and John Keats’ "A Song About Myself", to dreamy, thoughtful poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Rudyard Kipling, this is a collection to be treasured.
Public Domain (P)2012 Naxos AudioBooks