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

Lily, a frog

Because kids need stories and stories need kids

  • 12 minutes 15 seconds
    The Boneyard Dog and Friends Halloween Story

    An original tale of skeletons who get a chance to dance and play one magical halloween night in a spooky boneyard. 

    Music: Corny Candy by The Soundlings and Among the Stars by Everet Almond. 

     

    16 October 2024, 3:26 am
  • 9 minutes 52 seconds
    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

    26 July 2024, 2:15 am
  • 14 minutes 47 seconds
    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. 

     

    25 May 2024, 12:22 am
  • 15 minutes 41 seconds
    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. 

    21 February 2024, 7:17 pm
  • 9 minutes 56 seconds
    Evergreen: Affirmations for a New Year

    Beautiful listeners, this is Lily's Christmas card to you. Evergreen is a 10-minute calming mediation for kids and family, wishing your love, light, rest, relaxation and growth in the New Year. 

     

    25 December 2023, 12:59 am
  • 18 minutes 15 seconds
    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? 

    22 October 2023, 3:09 am
  • 17 minutes 38 seconds
    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

    10 September 2023, 8:44 pm
  • 35 minutes 8 seconds
    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.

    20 April 2023, 2:15 am
  • 14 minutes 6 seconds
    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

     

    14 January 2023, 10:30 pm
  • 8 minutes 35 seconds
    Merry Christmas from Lily

    Peace, love & joy from Lily to you!

    Music by DJ Williams courtesy YouTube Audio Library

    4 December 2022, 12:11 am
  • 6 minutes 54 seconds
    Six Husky Puppies

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

     

    20 October 2022, 3:47 am
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