Selected Riley Child-Rhymes

About this film

LibriVox recording of Selected Riley Child-Rhymes, by James Whitcomb Riley. Read by Val Grimm. Riley was an American writer known as the "Hoosier poet", and made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal in 1875. His favorite authors were Burns and Dickens. This collection of poems is a romanticized and mostly boy-centered paean to a 19th century rural American owning-class childhood. I've included the pieces I did because they're the ones I most enjoyed when I read a copy of the collection handed down from my great-grandfather. (Summary by Val Grimm) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B(11mb)

Directors & creators

James Whitcomb Riley

Subjects

librivox; audiobook; poetry; boys; orphant annie; The Raggedy Man

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