Episodes
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
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Thor and the Storm Fairies
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
A chocolate lab named Thor is caught in a summer storm. He catches something in the rain: a storm fairy.
A Tales From the Lilypad original story by Marlene Wurfel
Music: Midsummer Sky by Kevin MacLeod & Danse Macabre by Kevin MacLeod
Storm sounds courtesy of a Creative Commons Licence via freesound.org
Midsummer Sky by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100158
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Danse Macabre - Busy Strings by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100556
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Three Witchy Ghosty Fairy Stories for Halloween 2021
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Happy Halloween to my favourite witches, ghosts, fairies, gnomes, golems, princesses, ghostbusters, Cruellas, Ted Lassos, dragon protectors, cats, mice, zombies, doctors, pokemons, skeletons, clowns, superheroes, athletes, jack-o-lanterns, and dinosaurs.
Three stories about a tiny family that lives in a pumpkin, a little ghost who learns a lesson about overcoming his fears from a smart little witch, and a sequel to Twin Baby Unicorn's called The Witch's Recovery.
"The Tiny Family Who Lives in a Pumpkin" and "Boo" by Marlene Wurfel
"The Witch's Recovery" by Tiffany Passey
Music: Tiptoe out the Back by Dan 'Lebo' Leibowitz courtesy YouTube Audio Library
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Teddy Bear Island
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Monday Aug 03, 2020
A sequel, of sorts, to the Velveteen Rabbit, in which the nursery magic fairy from Margery William's classic story is hard at work today. An original bedtime story modern fairytale by Marlene Wurfel.
Licences and Attributions:
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (1922) is part of the public domain
Music: Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod
under a Creative Commons Attribution license via the YouTube Audio Library
https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music?nv=1
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100787
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
& Fantasy Windchimes by Northern87 on freesound.org
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
The Velveteen Rabbit with Annotations
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
This beautiful story written in 1922 by Margery Williams is almost 100 years old and about a time in history before there was antibiotic treatment for scarlet fever, a potentially fatal childhood disease. It's a story not only about survival, but resilience, change, love, and fairy magic.
Read and annotated by Marlene Wurfel
Licences and Attributions:
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (1922) is part of the public domain
Music:
Gymnopedie No.1 by Kevin MacLeod
Meditation Impromptu No.2 by Kevin MacLeod and Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod
under a Creative Commons Attribution license via the YouTube Audio Library
https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music?nv=1
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100787
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Birdsong sample by juskiddink on freesound.org via a creative commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
& Fantasy Windchimes by Northern87 on freesound.org
Tuesday May 28, 2019
Surly the Garden Gnome
Tuesday May 28, 2019
Tuesday May 28, 2019
Surly the Garden Gnome is annoyed by the lack of instructions on parenting that he finds in the Gnominomicon. 1) Be Kind. 2) Listen Deeply. How is that helpful advice? Especially when he finds his garden overrun by baby fairies. It's going to be a busy summer for Surly.
Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
The Changeling
Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
Another adventure of the boy and girl whose job is the preparation and service of oatmeal. Fairies! Potions! Portals to another magical realm!
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
Earth Air and Water Fairy Sleep Meditation
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
Another original sleep mediation for kids to help them build mindfulness techniques for healthy sleep. This one has ocean wave and bird sounds for white noise and to generate a feeling of wellness.