Now, the Special English program American Stories. Our story this week is Keesh. It was written by Jack London. Here is Shep O'Neal to tell you the story. Keesh lived at the edge of the Polar Sea. He had seen thirteen suns in the Eskimo way of keepin...
Now, the weekly Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Pigs Is Pigs. It was written by Ellis Parker Butler. Here is Shep ONeal with the story. Mike Flannery, the agent of the Interurban Express Company leaned over the des...
Our story today is called The Gatewood Caper. It was written by Dashielll Hammett. Here is Harry Monroe with the story. Millionaire Harvey Gatewood had a desk as big as a bed in the middle of his office. He looked almost as big as his desk. Gatewood...
This week's story is called Tomatoes. It was written by John Robinson Junior. Here is Walter Gathery with our story. Mother let no one touch the tomatoes. Why? was a mystery to me. I watched her working in the tomato patch. Her sun-browned hands seem...
Today's story is adapted from the young adult novel Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn. This book won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. The story is about Margaret Bayger, an 11-year-old girl. She tells her about her life in a s...
Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called The Luck of Roaring Camp. It was written by Bret Harte. Here is Henry Menro with our story. Roaring Camp was the noisiest gold mining town in California. More than one hundre...
Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Grandfather Tells The Cat Story. It was written by Gray Kojo. Our story takes us to the southwestern part of the United States for a Navajo Indian story. Here is Shep O'Neal...
Now, the weekly Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called The Wide Net. It was written by Eudora Welty. Here is Larry West with the story. William Wolas Jameson's wife Hazel was going to have a baby. But this was October and...
Now, the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story this week is called Papa's Straw Hat. It was written by Fread Gibson. Here is Shep O'Neal to tell you the story. Papa was a rancher. He worked with horses. He was proud of the way he dr...
Our story today is adapted from a novel for young people called Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly. Crazy Lady is a Newbery Honor Book, one of the highest awards for children's literature in the United States. The story is told by 14-year-old Vernon Deb...
