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

The Fuzzy Castle

An original story about a girl finding her way through a dark forest with a little help from hundreds and hundreds of bunnies. 

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. 

The Forest Bride a Finnish Fairy Tale

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? 

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

The Little People: A Fairy Tale by a Real Queen

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.

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

 

Six Husky Puppies

This poem is inspired by the land and literature of Yukon, Canada

 

Thor and the Storm Fairies

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/

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Danse Macabre - Busy Strings by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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