Bedtime Stories Podcast Fairytales and Folk Tales from the Lilypad for kids

Three Dandelion Stories

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

A Good Dog Re-released

A 2016 story re-released form the vaults. An original story, dedicated to the best dog ever, for Tales from the Lilypad by Marlene Wurfel. 

 

The Nightingale

The Nightingale by Marlene Wurfel

Rewritten and rearranged from the Hans Christian Anderson literary fairytale version

Intro Outro Music by Reid Alexander Whelton

The story of an Emporer, his empire, and a little brown bird whose voice has the power to change the world, something like yours does. 

Peter Squirrel

A camping story forged in some of Canada's beautiful national and provincial parks, with gratitude to all the squirrels who helped write, voice, and edit this episode. 

A Tales from the Lilypad original inspired by Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit: Peter Squirrel knows he shouldn't hang around Campsite #11, his father had a terrible accident there, but it smells like marshmallows and cookies. 

Original music by Reid Alexander Whelton

Legend of the Wooden Shoe

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

 

Three Witchy Ghosty Fairy Stories for Halloween 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

Star Lore

A blend of storytelling, ambient music and meditation celebrating the changing of seasons and the starry night sky. Ochek the Fisher from Cree star lore, Orion's dogs Canis Major & Canis Minor from Roman antiquity, the Blackfoot story of Lost Children in the stars, Lyra the Harp and Cetus the Whale reinvented plus Inuit, Indian, Ukrainian & Chinese mythologies combined in this episode with love to and from the stars and everyone who has gazed up at them and told a story.

Orca sounds from www.orcaresearch.org

 

Ranchland Gnomes

Ranchland gnomes Tumbles and Hilda, and their twins River and Kit, help gophers afraid of a rattlesnake. 

Stone Soup

The classic folk tale Stone Soup is about soldiers traveling home after a war. The villagers they meet are afraid of strangers and have forgotten how to be neighbors. Stoen Soup, like all great folktales, has a perennial and new relevance for 2021.

This version is especially for Tales from the Lilypad by Marlene Wurfel.

Three Fables for Spring and Summer

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