Episodes
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
The Little People: A Fairy Tale by a Real Queen
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
A version of The Little People by Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roumania (1901). Edited, annotated and re-arranged by Marlene Wurfel.
Music Intro by Reid Alexander Whelton.
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Legend of the Wooden Shoe
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Lily finds this old folktale about the origins of wooden shoes, The Netherlands, and gnomes to have a fascinating and different way of looking at our relationship with nature.
It's rewritten and rearranged for Tales from the Lilypad by Marlene Wurfel. “The Legend of the Wooden Shoe” is adapted from a 1918 version in English by William Elliot Griffis in Dutch Fairytales for Young Folks.
Original music composed by Reid Alexander Whelton for Tales from the Lilypad.
Project Gutenberg link to eBook version of Dutch Fairytales for Young Folks: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7871/pg7871-images.html
Sunday Jul 25, 2021
Ranchland Gnomes
Sunday Jul 25, 2021
Sunday Jul 25, 2021
Ranchland gnomes Tumbles and Hilda, and their twins River and Kit, help gophers afraid of a rattlesnake.
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Hurley the Alpine Gnome
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Hurley is an Alpine Gnome devoted in his service to hurt animals in the mountain wilderness in which he lives. He works alongside his trusted rescue mouse, Lileez. Will Hurley and Lileez return home after a strenous day in the cold to a hot cauldron of Bertie's wild plum stew?