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Bedtime Stories, Fairytales and Folk Tales: Lily, a frog, tells stories for kids & families
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Sunday Nov 29, 2020
Sunday Nov 29, 2020
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?
Saturday Jun 30, 2018
Saturday Jun 30, 2018
A rearrangement and retelling of a Brother's Grimm fairytale: Cat and Mouse in Partnership. Cat and Mouse are in love. Can they make it work?
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
A dryad is a tree spirit or nymph that lives in a tree. This Tales from the Lilypad original story by Marlene Wurfel is about a Black Poplar dryad named Daiya. This story is loosely inspired by Greek mythology and greatly inspired by my love for Balsam Poplars. Yeah, it gets a bit sappy.
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?
Friday Sep 30, 2016
Friday Sep 30, 2016
A retelling of Thumbelina. The best known version was written by Hans Christian Anderson in 1835. In Marlene Wurfel's version, the tiny, beautiful girl born in a flower does not become a child bride, and some Canadian fauna play roles in the story.
Sunday Aug 28, 2016
Sunday Aug 28, 2016
Classic and beloved fairytale The Princess and the Pea retold by Marlene Wurfel. Who is the stranger knocking at the door in the middle of a terrible thunderstorm? Could she be... is she possibly... a real princess?
Sunday Jan 31, 2016
Sunday Jan 31, 2016
A retelling and rearrangement, by Marlene Wurfel, of the Excalibur legend. This story is more than 2000 years old and how much of it is folklore and how much of it is historical is unknown.