Episodes
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
The Nightingale
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
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.
Saturday Oct 21, 2023
The Forest Bride a Finnish Fairy Tale
Saturday Oct 21, 2023
Saturday Oct 21, 2023
A Finnish fairy tale re-written and re-told for Tales from the Lilypad by Marlene Wurfel. Eino must look for a sweetheart but gets lost in the Dark Woods. Then he sees a little cottage with a bright light in the window and smoke curling up from the chimney. Could his true love be inside?
Sunday Sep 10, 2023
Peter Squirrel
Sunday Sep 10, 2023
Sunday Sep 10, 2023
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
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
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
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Stone Soup
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
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.
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Three Fables for Spring and Summer
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
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
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
The Royal Rabbit
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
A Tales from the Lilypad literary fairytale by Marlene Wurfel. A re-smashing, re-mixing, re-arranging and retelling of A.A. Milne's "Prince Rabbit."
Intro and Outro music created for Tales from the Lilypad by Reid Alexander Whelton.