This project is now in our catalog at https://librivox.org/fuzzy-wuz-a-little-brown-bear-of-the-sierras-by-allen-chaffee/
Volunteers outside the USA: Allen Chaffee died in 1985. This person's work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date. In Europe this is 70 years; in Canada it is 70 years for authors who died after 1971; and in Australia it is 70 years for authors who died after 1955.
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69923"A LITTLE brown bear, no bigger than a house cat, that the Ranger found near drowning, is brought up with the orphaned fawn his children tamed, a rascally young burro, a ring-tailed cat, an owl, a tame canary, and a valiant yellow pup.
The scene is laid in the high Sierras, where trout-filled streams cascade down fragrant cedar slopes.
The author has turned natural science into story form. With the enterprising bear cub, we meet pine squirrels and painted chipmunks, the pika of the snow-clad peaks and the rattler of the sun-baked low-lands, the weasel and the wapiti, and have at least a glimpse of the cougar and the coyote" (Summary by the author)
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Genres for the project: Children's Fiction/Animals & Nature
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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 less than 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
End of recording:"Chapter) # of Fuzzy Wuz - A Little Brown Bear of the Sierras. 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."] "Fuzzy Wuz - A Little Brown Bear of the Sierras, by Allen Chaffee. Section Title (e.g. chapter 2 would be The Cinnamon Cub)."
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If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of chapter #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of Fuzzy Wuz - A Little Brown Bear of the Sierras, by Allen Chaffee."
Filename: fuzzywuz_##_chaffee_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. fuzzywuz_01_chaffee_128kb.mp3)
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MC to select: philchenevert
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