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
A Tales from the Lilypad original story by Marlene Wurfel.
Zyvorn Cornebius Maxaro the Brown is a lot like every other meadow mouse except that he's also a wizard.
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 (Instrum...
An original story by Marlene Wurfel inspired by the Buddhist allegory of an anger monster who thrives on anger and shrinks from kindness.
An original story about a girl finding her way through a dark forest with a little help from hundreds and hundreds of bunnies.
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
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...
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.
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...
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 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.
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.
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?
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 Alexande...
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.
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 R...
Peace, love & joy from Lily to you!
Music by DJ Williams courtesy YouTube Audio Library
This poem is inspired by the land and literature of Yukon, Canada
“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. Jose...
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.or...
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