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This book contains 13 stories for little children, about a little boy named Birdie and his adventures out in nature with the fairies. The stories include "The Frost Fairies", made famous by a very similar short story entitled "The Frost King", penned by deaf/blind Helen Keller when she was a young girl. Helen's story was so similar to Margaret Canby's tale, that Keller was accused of plagerizing. Her teacher Anne Sullivan finally pieced together that a friend had read Margaret’s story to Helen years before, and she had internalized many details without remembering the story having been read to her. This episode helped reveal what Mrs. Canby described as Helen's "wonderfully active and retentive mind", and she was honored for her story to be so well remembered (and made so famous). (Summary by Michele Fry)
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://archive.org/details/birdiehisfairyfr00canb/page/n10/mode/1up
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[*]Number of sections (files) this project will have: 14
[*]Does the project have an introduction or preface: Yes
[*]Original publication date (if known): 1873
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Genres for the project: Children's Fiction/Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
Keywords that describe the book: (please keep visible) the frost fairies, the dew fairies, the winter fairies
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:End of recording:"Section # of Birdie and his Fairy Friends. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Birdie and his Fairy Friends, by Margaret T. Canby. Section Title."
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Filename: birdieandhisfairyfriends_##_canby_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. birdieandhisfairyfriends_01_canby_128kb.mp3)
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MC to select: lynnet
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BC: Michele Fry
MC: LynneT
DPL: TrLove
COVER: Michele Fry
