Seriously!
Ten ebooks with Audio, mini-biographies in picture book style. one each on greats like Beethoven, Bach, Schubert, Handel, Wagner, Verdi, etc…
score! i haven’t listened to them, yet, but thanks for sharing 
I have subscribed but it looks like it isn’t available to new subscribers???
Not sure why that would be? I only signed up today, and after confirming, this was offered…if anyone else has any troubles I am sure we can fix it as the are part of the Gutenburg project…
Thanks kerri for sharing this!
Hi Lelask,
If u cant see the link, i copied them here for u…
CHILD’S OWN BOOK OF GREAT MUSICIANS – 10 VOLUMES! (ebooks & mp3 audios)
Audiobook reader Kara Shallenberg narrated this well done audiobook compilation of 10 volumes of the “Child’s Own Book of Great Musicians” series. These are ten short, entertaining, informative picture-book biographies of famous composers written by Thomas Tapper. Each book tells about the childhood and great achievements of a composer, and includes a short musical example.
Here’s Kara’s mp3 audio reading of the ten books in the series in .zip format. RIGHT CLICK HERE http://archive.org/download/great_composers_1102_librivox/great_composers_1102_librivox_64kb_mp3.zip
to download it, then “save” to your computer.
Or you can click here and go to the Librivox page that has each 10 minute reading downloadable individually.
http://librivox.org/stories-of-great-composers-for-children-by-thomas-tapper/
…and here are links to the online texts so you can read along and look at the pictures:
Bach: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34568
Mozart: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34582
Beethoven: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34737
Haydn: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34550
Schubert: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35070
Handel: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35157
Chopin: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35013
Verdi: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35158
Wagner: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35128
Grieg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35097
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These are actually free to the public, as they’re part of the gutenberg project The real gold is between all the free ebooks offered at www.gutenberg.org (click on browse categories in the left to see all the selections available) and the free audio books provided by www.librivox.org, often available as a gutenberg’s (sometimes illustrated) ebooks Check it out - it’s free gold, really!
Thanks for sharing this gem!