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

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

Bedtime Stories, Fairytales and Folk Tales: Lily, a frog, tells stories for kids & families

Episodes

December 30, 2025 12 mins

Happy New Year, from Lily

Shoutout to Josephine (as Ella Dawn)

This largely forgotten but wonderful fairytale is written and rearranged by Marlene Wurfel, based on the concept and story by the American fabulist Emilie Poulsson (1853-1939)

Music:

“English Country Garden” & “Alpine Bierhalle” & “Christmas Homecoming” by Aaron Kenny courtesy YouTube Audio Library

Auld Lang Syne (Instrumental) by the Jingle Punks courtesy YouTu...

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An original story by Marlene Wurfel inspired by the Buddhist allegory of an anger monster who thrives on anger and shrinks from kindness.

 

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October 10, 2025 10 mins

A Halloween origin story. 

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April 25, 2025 23 mins

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

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March 16, 2025 9 mins

This is a spin off of Ray Bradbury's 1955 Book "Switch On The Night," reprised and remixed for modern listeners by Marlene Wurfel. 

What do we switch on when we switch off our electronics? 

Non-commercial story for kids & family, Copyright is Fair Use 

Intro and Outro Music by Reid Alexander Whelton

 

 

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December 24, 2024 13 mins

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Lily. This is calming, meditative story about a star suit that fits you just right. Put it on to travel through the clouds, dance with the Northern Lights, and visit the stars. "See" Great Bear (Ursa Major), Cygnus, Sirius, Tama Rereti, and other constellations. 

Original script and narration by Marlene Wurfel

Audio Mix Features Creative Commons Music via YouTube Studio: 

Peacefully by E's Ja...

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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. 

 

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July 25, 2024 9 mins

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

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May 24, 2024 14 mins

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. 

 

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February 21, 2024 15 mins

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. 

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December 24, 2023 9 mins

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. 

 

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October 21, 2023 18 mins

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? 

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September 10, 2023 17 mins

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

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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.

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January 14, 2023 14 mins

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 Whe...

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December 3, 2022 8 mins

Peace, love & joy from Lily to you!

Music by DJ Williams courtesy YouTube Audio Library

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October 19, 2022 6 mins

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

 

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“The Orange Shirt Story” read by author Phyllis Webstad with permission from Medicine Wheel Education www.medicinewheel.education

This is the true story of a little girl and her very important orange shirt. Six-year-old Phyllis Webstad was as excited to wear her shiny new orange shirt as she was to attend school for the first time. But her first day at the St. Joseph Mission ...

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July 5, 2022 14 mins

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/licen...

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May 22, 2022 11 mins

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

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