Episodes
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
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
Sunday May 22, 2022
The Moosicorn Part III
Sunday May 22, 2022
Sunday May 22, 2022
Lily is back for Season II of Tales from the Lilypad with an original story by Marlene Wurfel: The Moosicorn Part III. Mordecai is taking magic lessons from the Aurora Borealis. But what was his homework?
Intro Music by Reid Alexander Whelton
Sound Effects courtesy and Creative Commons Licence via freesound.org
Lake sounds and warbler sounds by BenBonCan, Story Logo sound by SergeQuadrado
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 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
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.
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/