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Bedtime Stories, Fairytales and Folk Tales: Lily, a frog, tells stories for kids & families
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Nov 8, 2025
Nov 8, 2025
17 min
An original story by Marlene Wurfel inspired by the Buddhist allegory of an anger monster who thrives on anger and shrinks from kindness.
Jul 25, 2024
Jul 25, 2024
9 min
Three stories that explore the relationship between dandelions and the wisdom of children.
The Dandelion Who Couldn't Roar is an original fable by Marlene Wurfel for Tales from the Lilypad
The Legend of the Flower Fairy is based on an Aesop's Fable, rewritten and rearranged by M Wurfel
The third story about dandelions in the garden is based on a traditional Sufi tale and rewritten and rearranged for TFTL by M Wurfel
Intro and Outro music by Reid Alexander Whelton
Acoustic music featured Acoustic Guitar by ViraMiller -- https://freesound.org/s/744879/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Apr 30, 2021
Apr 30, 2021
9 min
Happy Spring! Three of Aesop's fables rewritten and rearranged for young audiences by Marlene Wurfel for Tales from the Lilypad.
The Lark and Her Young Ones
The Plane Tree
&
The Gnat and the Ox
Original music by Reid Alexander Whelton
Nov 29, 2020
Nov 29, 2020
7 min
The Rich Man and the Shoemaker is a fable first penned by LaFontaine and rearranged and recorded here by Marlene Wurfel. This episode features a very special performance by Captain Thunderpants, the Vancouver Island Comox Valley's Performer of the Year in 2020.
This story is hundreds of years old. Is it still relevant today? Should the Shoemaker have done something differently? Would you have?
Jan 26, 2020
Jan 26, 2020
6 min
Three of Aesop's fables re-told and re-arranged by Marlene Wurfel for kids: The Donkey in the Lion's Skin, The Crow and the Pitcher, and The Milkmaid and the Pail. Aesop was one of the sages of Ancient Greece, like Socrates. The stories ascribed to him are thousands of years old (all dating to at least 600 b.c.) and are called fables because they always include a moral lesson. Storytellers are always philosophers at heart, and so are kids.
Sep 28, 2017
Sep 28, 2017
15 min
A retelling and rearrangement of the ancient Greek myth by Marlene Wurfel. Theseus is a hero on a mission to slay the terrible Minotaur at the heart of a labyrinth in King Mino's palace.
Aug 31, 2017
Aug 31, 2017
20 min
Part II of a Tales From the Lilypad original story about a singular creature who learns how to make light in the darkest depths of winter.
May 31, 2017
May 31, 2017
11 min
A retake on "Magic Noodle Pot" folktales where someone finds a pot that doubles whatever is put inside.
Jan 29, 2017
Jan 29, 2017
12 min
This must be the worst Tales From the Lilypad Episode yet. Or perhaps it's the best. Possibly it's just middling the pack. In any case: urine need of a warning: this episode use the word "pee" exactly 21 times and is mostly about pee. This modern remake of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" has nothing to do with wolves but lots to do with soggy diapers.
Apr 28, 2016
Apr 28, 2016
6 min
The more than 2000 year old fable of City Mouse and Country Mouse, re-told at the Lilypad by Lily, a frog, and two little mice.