Episodes
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.
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/
Friday Dec 31, 2021
The Dream Train
Friday Dec 31, 2021
Friday Dec 31, 2021
You are the hero of this audio adventure through a dreamscape. Happy New Year 2022! Wishing you great sleeps, much growth, and big love.
Story, voicework, and audio mix by Marlene Wurfel > www.marlenewurfel.com
Train sounds & miscellaneous by:
Benboncan; Caquet; Mredig & Inspector J
via a Creative Commons Attribution Licence freesound.org
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Music
A Simple Lullaby by Jesse Keller via Jamendo
Blue Dream by Cheel via YouTube audio library
Sea of Ancestry by Jesse Gallagher via YouTube audio library
Snowy Peaks by Chris Haugen via YouTube audio library
* Emily Carr and Woo are real historical figures you can learn more about :)
Sunday Jul 25, 2021
Ranchland Gnomes
Sunday Jul 25, 2021
Sunday Jul 25, 2021
Ranchland gnomes Tumbles and Hilda, and their twins River and Kit, help gophers afraid of a rattlesnake.
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.
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Return to the Crystal Castle
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Another original story written by Marlene Wurfel especially for Tales from the Lilypad listeners everywhere. Return to the Crystal Castle with an ambitious princess for some adventure in the moonlight. Will Princess Dee succeed in a heroes quest?
Intro music by Reid Alexander Whelton
FairyTale Waltz 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=USUAN1100232
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Chuckles and the Wolverine
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Chuckles is a snow gnome who performs a daring rescue of a wolverine in this original story by Marlene Wurfel for Tales from the Lilypad. New music by Reid Alexander Whelton.
Sound effects courtesy Creative Commons Universal Public Domain Licence and a Creative Commons Attribution Licence via freesound.org. Thank you Pedaling Prince.