🗡️✨ Travel across the world through fourteen unforgettable folktales—from China and Burma to Afghanistan and America—in this inspiring collection celebrating boys who show that true strength comes from character, courage, wisdom, and compassion.

In Mightier Than the Sword, renowned storyteller Jane Yolen gathers classic and little-known tales of sons, brothers, kings, and even trolls—each one proving that brains and bravery outshine brawn every time. Listeners will meet clever heroes who solve problems with quick thinking, kind hearts, and unshakable integrity.

🌍📖 These timeless stories highlight:

• ⚔️ Courage in unexpected places
• 🧠 Wisdom that saves the day
• 💛 Kindness as a quiet superpower
• 🤝 Friendship, loyalty, and moral strength
• 🐉 Adventure across cultures and continents

Perfect for young listeners who love heroic tales, this episode offers action, adventure, and meaningful lessons—without relying on violence or force. Boys and girls alike will discover that being “mighty” is about making wise choices, doing what’s right, and believing in the strength within.

🌙 Whether enjoyed at bedtime, during car rides, or as part of a classroom or family story time, Mightier Than the Sword invites children to explore what it really means to be a hero.

👨‍👩‍👧 Whether you're in the car, at home, or gathered around for story time, The Book of Virtues is a heartwarming guide to help kids grow into their best selves—one story at a time. Purchase this book here.

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🐅 A heartwarming story about hard work, humble beginnings, and honoring where you come from.

Set in vibrant India 🇮🇳, this beautiful retelling of the classic Middle Eastern folktale Abu Kassem’s Slippers follows a poor little tiger cub 🐯 with big dreams and even bigger determination.

👣 With nothing but his paws to protect, Tiger’s mother lovingly weaves him a pair of slippers.

Those worn, patched slippers help him:

🧱 Make bricks

🏠 Build homes

💰 And eventually become very successful.

But when someone questions why a wealthy tiger wears such old shoes…

😳 Tiger tries to throw them away.

🌀 Over and over again, the slippers come back.

Why won’t they leave him alone?

It takes a visit from his uncle—and a wise little cub—to help Tiger understand that those slippers aren’t something to be ashamed of...

They’re a reminder of how far he’s come. 🧡

🏛️ So he builds them a special place of honor—to celebrate his roots, his journey, and the love that started it all.

🎧 A touching tale of gratitude, family, and remembering what matters most.

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🗡️✨ Travel across the world through fourteen unforgettable folktales—from China and Burma to Afghanistan and America—in this inspiring collection celebrating boys who show that true strength comes from character, courage, wisdom, and compassion.

In Mightier Than the Sword, renowned storyteller Jane Yolen gathers classic and little-known tales of sons, brothers, kings, and even trolls—each one proving that brains and bravery outshine brawn every time. Listeners will meet clever heroes who solve problems with quick thinking, kind hearts, and unshakable integrity.

🌍📖 These timeless stories highlight:

• ⚔️ Courage in unexpected places
• 🧠 Wisdom that saves the day
• 💛 Kindness as a quiet superpower
• 🤝 Friendship, loyalty, and moral strength
• 🐉 Adventure across cultures and continents

Perfect for young listeners who love heroic tales, this episode offers action, adventure, and meaningful lessons—without relying on violence or force. Boys and girls alike will discover that being “mighty” is about making wise choices, doing what’s right, and believing in the strength within.

🌙 Whether enjoyed at bedtime, during car rides, or as part of a classroom or family story time, Mightier Than the Sword invites children to explore what it really means to be a hero.

👨‍👩‍👧 Whether you're in the car, at home, or gathered around for story time, The Book of Virtues is a heartwarming guide to help kids grow into their best selves—one story at a time. Purchase this book here.

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🎙️ This Episode: Anansi and the Sky God

✨ A trickster tale full of clever plans, magical creatures, and a spider on a mission!

🌍 Long ago, when the earth was new and the sky still freshly lifted...

All the world’s folktales belonged to the mighty Sky God ☁️👑.

But one tiny spider 🕷️ named Anansi had a big idea:

He was going to buy them back—every last one!

The price?

🐍 One live python

🧚 One real fairy

🐝 Forty-seven stinging hornets

😳 Sounds impossible, right?

Well, not if you ask Anansi’s clever wife, Aso 💡💬.

Together, they cook up a brilliant plan to outsmart the Sky God and return the stories to the people of Earth.

🎭 Packed with humor, heart, and a whole lot of trickery, this Ashanti folktale shows that brains—and teamwork—can outwit even the most powerful of gods.

🎧 A lively, laugh-out-loud story that reminds us where all our stories came from—and why we tell them. Purchase this book here.

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🗡️✨ Travel across the world through fourteen unforgettable folktales—from China and Burma to Afghanistan and America—in this inspiring collection celebrating boys who show that true strength comes from character, courage, wisdom, and compassion.

In Mightier Than the Sword, renowned storyteller Jane Yolen gathers classic and little-known tales of sons, brothers, kings, and even trolls—each one proving that brains and bravery outshine brawn every time. Listeners will meet clever heroes who solve problems with quick thinking, kind hearts, and unshakable integrity.

🌍📖 These timeless stories highlight:

• ⚔️ Courage in unexpected places
• 🧠 Wisdom that saves the day
• 💛 Kindness as a quiet superpower
• 🤝 Friendship, loyalty, and moral strength
• 🐉 Adventure across cultures and continents

Perfect for young listeners who love heroic tales, this episode offers action, adventure, and meaningful lessons—without relying on violence or force. Boys and girls alike will discover that being “mighty” is about making wise choices, doing what’s right, and believing in the strength within.

🌙 Whether enjoyed at bedtime, during car rides, or as part of a classroom or family story time, Mightier Than the Sword invites children to explore what it really means to be a hero.

👨‍👩‍👧 Whether you're in the car, at home, or gathered around for story time, The Book of Virtues is a heartwarming guide to help kids grow into their best selves—one story at a time. Purchase this book here.

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🎙️ Today’s Tale: The Magic Fishbone

By Charles Dickens

🧚 A royal fairy tale with a touch of silliness, a sprinkle of magic, and Dickens’s playful wit!

Meet a royal family like no other:

👑 A King with a regular job and an empty wallet

👸 A kind and clever Queen

👶 …and their 17 (!) lively children

Then comes a twist…

🧙‍♀️ A grumpy fairy gives their eldest daughter a magic fishbone 🐟—a wish-granting charm that only works “when the circumstances are right.”

✨ What will she wish for?

🤔 When is the “right time”?

💫 And how will the fishbone change their lives?

Full of humor, heart, and gentle lessons, The Magic Fishbone is a whimsical tale about patience, cleverness, and knowing just when to trust in a little magic.

🎧 A perfect story for kids who love fairy tales with a fun, thoughtful twist!

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🗡️✨ Travel across the world through fourteen unforgettable folktales—from China and Burma to Afghanistan and America—in this inspiring collection celebrating boys who show that true strength comes from character, courage, wisdom, and compassion.

In Mightier Than the Sword, renowned storyteller Jane Yolen gathers classic and little-known tales of sons, brothers, kings, and even trolls—each one proving that brains and bravery outshine brawn every time. Listeners will meet clever heroes who solve problems with quick thinking, kind hearts, and unshakable integrity.

🌍📖 These timeless stories highlight:

• ⚔️ Courage in unexpected places
• 🧠 Wisdom that saves the day
• 💛 Kindness as a quiet superpower
• 🤝 Friendship, loyalty, and moral strength
• 🐉 Adventure across cultures and continents

Perfect for young listeners who love heroic tales, this episode offers action, adventure, and meaningful lessons—without relying on violence or force. Boys and girls alike will discover that being “mighty” is about making wise choices, doing what’s right, and believing in the strength within.

🌙 Whether enjoyed at bedtime, during car rides, or as part of a classroom or family story time, Mightier Than the Sword invites children to explore what it really means to be a hero.

👨‍👩‍👧 Whether you're in the car, at home, or gathered around for story time, The Book of Virtues is a heartwarming guide to help kids grow into their best selves—one story at a time. Purchase this book here.

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🎙️ This Week’s Story: The Great Kapok Tree

By Lynne Cherry

🌿 A modern fable with a powerful message for young Earth heroes.

Deep in the heart of the Amazon rainforest…

🪓 A man raises his axe to chop down a mighty kapok tree.

But before he can finish the job, he falls into a deep sleep—

And the forest begins to speak. 🌳👂

🐒 Parrots, jaguars, frogs—even a child from the Yanomamo tribe—

whisper in his ear about the importance of trees and how

“all living things depend on one another.”

📚 With rich, breathtaking illustrations and an urgent call to action, this beautiful tale invites kids to think about:

🌍 Nature’s balance

💚 Interconnected life

🦜 Rainforest creatures worth protecting

✋ And the power of one person to make a difference.

Perfect for young environmentalists and curious minds, The Great Kapok Tree reminds us that the Earth is speaking—

🧏 Are we listening?

🏆 An award-winning classic:

⭐ IRA Teacher’s Choice

⭐ ABA Pick of the Lists

⭐ Reading Rainbow Review Book

⭐ NSTA-CBC Outstanding Trade Book

Purchase this book here.

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🗡️✨ Travel across the world through fourteen unforgettable folktales—from China and Burma to Afghanistan and America—in this inspiring collection celebrating boys who show that true strength comes from character, courage, wisdom, and compassion.

In Mightier Than the Sword, renowned storyteller Jane Yolen gathers classic and little-known tales of sons, brothers, kings, and even trolls—each one proving that brains and bravery outshine brawn every time. Listeners will meet clever heroes who solve problems with quick thinking, kind hearts, and unshakable integrity.

🌍📖 These timeless stories highlight:

• ⚔️ Courage in unexpected places
• 🧠 Wisdom that saves the day
• 💛 Kindness as a quiet superpower
• 🤝 Friendship, loyalty, and moral strength
• 🐉 Adventure across cultures and continents

Perfect for young listeners who love heroic tales, this episode offers action, adventure, and meaningful lessons—without relying on violence or force. Boys and girls alike will discover that being “mighty” is about making wise choices, doing what’s right, and believing in the strength within.

🌙 Whether enjoyed at bedtime, during car rides, or as part of a classroom or family story time, Mightier Than the Sword invites children to explore what it really means to be a hero.

👨‍👩‍👧 Whether you're in the car, at home, or gathered around for story time, The Book of Virtues is a heartwarming guide to help kids grow into their best selves—one story at a time. Purchase this book here.

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From the author of The Moral Compass and The Death of Outrage

✨ A collection of classic tales that build strong hearts and minds.

🛡️ Responsibility | 🦁 Courage | 💖 Kindness

🤝 Friendship | 🧠 Wisdom | 🏃‍♀️ Perseverance | 🌟 Faith

Looking for stories that teach more than just a lesson?

The Book of Virtues is packed with powerful, character-shaping stories perfect for young listeners—and their grown-ups too!

🎧 Each story offers a meaningful way to explore big ideas like right and wrong, bravery, honesty, and caring for others. William J. Bennett brings together timeless tales from:

• 📖 The Bible
• 🏛️ Ancient myths
• 🇺🇸 American history
• 🧚‍♂️ Fairy tales
• ✒️ Poems and classic literature

These are the stories that spark imagination and character—great for thoughtful discussions after each episode or cozy bedtime listens.

Today's stories:

1. Good and Bad Children

2. The Story of Please

3. Rebecca

4. Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore

5. The Loveable Child

6. John, Tom, and James

7. There Was a Little Girl

👨‍👩‍👧 Whether you're in the car, at home, or gathered around for storytime, The Book of Virtues is a heartwarming guide to help kids grow into their best selves—one story at a time. Purchase this book here.

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