NDLI: 11 - The Autumn Stores and the Long Winter Night

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00 - Just a Word

01 - The Little Old Man of the Rock

02 - Some Early Settlers and Their Bones

03 - The Winds and the World's Work

04 - The Bottom-Lands

05 - What the Earth Owes to the Earthworm

06 - The Little Farmers with Six Feet

07 - Farmers with Four Feet

08 - Water Farmers Who Help Make Land

09 - Farmers Who Wear Feathers

10 - The Busy Fingers of the Roots

11 - The Autumn Stores and the Long Winter Night

12 - The Brotherhood of the Dust

11 - The Autumn Stores and the Long Winter Night

Content Provider	Librivox
Author	Hawksworth, Hallam
Abstract	This charming book for children is full of interesting facts about all sorts of plants, insects, birds and animals and how they all help to enrich the soil for farmers - each in its own special way. Join our narrator, The Grain of Dust on a fascinating journey around the planet to meet them. "I don't want you to think that I'm boasting, but I do believe I'm one of the greatest travellers that ever was; and if anybody, living or dead, has ever gone through with more than I have I'd like to hear about it. Not that I've personally been in all the places or taken part in all the things I tell in this book—I don't mean to say that—but I do ask you to remember how long it is possible for a grain of dust to last, and how many other far-travelled and much-adventured dust grains it must meet and mix with in the course of its life. ...Finally, if what we call flesh and blood can think and talk, why not a grain of dust? In fact, what is flesh and blood but dust come back to life? Says the poet—and the poets know: 'The very dust that blows along the street Once whispered to its love that life is sweet.' You see it's as likely a thing as could happen—this whole story." Summary by J. M. Smallheer with quotes from the Preface of the book
Related Links	http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38066 http://archive.org/details/grainofdust_1312_librivox
File Format	MP2 / MPA / MP3
Language	English
Part of Series	The Adventures of a Grain of Dust
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Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	children's non-fiction
Alternative Title	The Adventures of a Grain of Dust - 11 - The Autumn Stores and the Long Winter Night
Content Type	Audio
Resource Type	Audiobook

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