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Free Audio Books

Lit2Go is a project from Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse. I have no idea what that means but I do know that you can get a massive amount of free audio books, basically all kindergarten to grade 12 for free. Check out the iTunes site for complete books from Dickens, Twain, Montgomery, Wilde, plus tons of fairy and folk tales (Japanese, Slavonic, Western). I discovered this jem of a story from Aesop:
 
The Kingdom of the Lion

The beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be. During his reign he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity. The Hare said, "Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong." And after the Hare said this, he ran for his life.



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