Mabel’s Mishap
A Children’s Classic of Friendship, Honesty, and Quiet Courage
Series: Choral Family Storytime · Book 5
Amy Ella Blanchard | Unabridged | Choral English Voice (digital voice)
Narrated with Choral English Voice, a synthetic (digital) voice.
One rainy afternoon, curious Mabel Ford makes a careless mistake: she takes a paintbrush to one of her father’s treasured old books. Ashamed but determined to make things right, Mabel launches a secret search for a replacement. Her quest leads from bustling auctions and old bookshops to an unexpected friendship with Harold, a boy whose troubles are far greater than her own.
First published in 1900, *Mabel’s Mishap* is a warm, fast-moving children’s classic about responsibility, generosity, and the kind of courage that rarely earns applause. Along the way, Mabel learns that repairing harm means more than replacing what was broken – it means telling the truth, seeing beyond oneself, and showing up for a friend.
This unabridged edition includes a downloadable listener companion with historical context, a chapter guide, vocabulary, discussion questions, and family or classroom activities. Narrated by a synthesized female voice.
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Chapter 1. It was raining dismally. Mabel, leaning her arms on the broad window-sill, watched the drops trickling down the panes. Before her was an array of paper dolls in gay tissue dresses. They sat perched upon pasteboard chairs in front of a circle of queer creatures with flat heads, and no feet; hand in hand these stood, rather flimsy in appearance. Mabel had cut them all in one from a bit of newspaper.
Presently she gave the whole company a sweep off on the floor.
“I’m tired of you,” she said. “And it’s raining, and I don’t know what to do. I wish I were twins, so I could have someone to play with.”
“Why, Mabel,” said her mother, “suppose I had two discontented little Mabels to be fretting around on a rainy day, what should I do?”
“You wouldn’t have to have two Mabels,” returned the little girl, “you could call one something else: Maude, or–oh, mamma, you could call one May and one Belle. I think I’d like to be May, myself. That’s what I’ll do next time I play by myself: I’ll pretend I have a twin sister named Belle.”
“Suppose you pick up that company of people, lying there by the window, now, and play with your twin awhile.”
Mabel looked up mischievously. “I think I’ll let Belle pick them up,” she said.
“Well, let me see her do it. There is a looking glass in which I can watch her…
- Running time: 1 h 13 min
- Voice: Choral English Voice (digital/synthetic)
- Edition: Unabridged
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