A Long Time Ago — How Things Began

How Things Began

Fire, the first wheel, old houses and a city preserved in ash — how people came to live the way we do.

6 stories · 30 min · Ages 3–10

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About these stories

Before cars and shops, people walked everywhere and made everything by hand. They lived in caves, then huts, then houses with doors. Somebody learned to make fire, and everything changed; somebody noticed that round things roll, and the world sped up. Six stories about how people came to live the way we do.

Pompeii and The Ice Age: When Mammoths Roamed take the shelf back further still. Plain, true and short — written for four- and five-year-olds, with The First Wheel pitched at older listeners.

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