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

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

• 02.21.2024

  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...

  
• 12.25.2023

  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.

  
• 10.22.2023

  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...

  
• 09.10.2023

  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...

  
• 04.20.2023

  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.

  
• 01.14.2023

  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....

  
• 12.04.2022

  Merry Christmas from Lily

  Peace, love & joy from Lily to you! Music by DJ Williams courtesy YouTube Audio Library

  
• 10.20.2022

  Six Husky Puppies

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

  
• 09.14.2022

  The Orange Shirt Story featuring Phyllis Webstad

  “The Orange Shirt Story” read by author Phyllis Webstad with permission from Medicine Wheel Educationwww.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...

  
• 07.06.2022

  Thor and the Storm Fairies

  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...

  
• 05.23.2022

  The Moosicorn Part III

  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...

  
• 03.12.2022

  Update from Lily

  Update: Lily is just fine but still hibernating. She'll be back in May with a brand new season of Tales from the Lilypad Bedtime Stories and Folk Tales.  Looking to stream older stories? Visit talesfromthelilypad.com Amazon Music, Apple Music and Spotify subscribers...

  
• 12.31.2021

  The Dream Train

  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 &...

  
• 11.29.2021

  Joy the Christmas Mouse

  From deep in the Tales from the Lilypad archive (2016) an original Christmas story by Marlene Wurfel. Joy! Magic! Sweetness! This story is about mice who live in a Candy Cane factory and the kind janitor who finds their village...

  
• 10.31.2021

  Three Witchy Ghosty Fairy Stories for Halloween 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...

  
• 09.30.2021

  The Forest Library feat. Lexi the Squirrel Librarian

  This Tales from the Lilypad original by Marlene Wurfel is a story within a story within a story. Enjoy!  Original intro and outro music by Reid Alexander Whelton.

  
• 09.01.2021

  Star Lore

  A blend of storytelling, ambient music and meditation celebrating the changing of seasons and the starry night sky. Ochek the Fisher from Cree star lore, Orion's dogs Canis Major & Canis Minor from Roman antiquity, the Blackfoot story of Lost...

  
• 07.25.2021

  Ranchland Gnomes

  Ranchland gnomes Tumbles and Hilda, and their twins River and Kit, help gophers afraid of a rattlesnake.

  
• 06.30.2021

  Stone Soup

  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...

  
• 05.29.2021

  Have You Seen This Frog?

  In this episode, Lily answers questions from listeners including the number 1 question:Are you really a frog? & Where can I find older episodes? Answer: www.talesfromthelilypad.com Kids can email letters & pictures to: [email protected] Or, message through Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/talesfromthelilypad Music for this episode:...

  
• 04.30.2021

  Three Fables for Spring and Summer

  Happy Spring! Three of Aesop's fables rewritten and rearranged for young audiences by Marlene Wurfel for Tales from the Lilypad. The Lark and Her Young OnesThe Plane Tree&The Gnat and the Ox Original music by Reid Alexander Whelton

  
• 04.01.2021

  The Royal Rabbit

  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.

  
• 03.01.2021

  Return to the Crystal Castle

  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...

  
• 02.01.2021

  Chuckles and the Wolverine

  Chuckles is a snow gnome who performs a daring rescue of a wolverine in this original story by Marlene Wurfel for Tales from the Lilypad. New music by Reid Alexander Whelton.  Sound effects courtesy Creative Commons Universal Public Domain Licence and...

  
• 12.31.2020

  The New Year's Fairy

  Happy New Year from Lily and Josephine (as Linda 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” & “Apline Bierhalle”...

  
• 11.29.2020

  The Rich Man and the Shoemaker

  The Rich Man and the Shoemaker is a fable first penned by LaFontaine and rearranged and recorded here by Marlene Wurfel. This episode features a very special performance by Captain Thunderpants, the Vancouver Island Comox Valley's Performer of the Year...

  
• 10.31.2020

  Stella and Neon

  This is 15 minutes of relaxed visualization.  Stella Starwalker and her wolf, Neon, journey through the star scape. They drink from the Milky Way, see Pleiades and other storied constellations, and rest by The Tree of Life. What does a star...

  
• 10.01.2020

  Teddy Bear Island Tuffy's Loving Kindness Meditation

  In this epsiode, written & performed by Marlene Wurfel, Waffles the Black Bear learns a loving-kindness meditation technique from Tuffy the Griz. It helps him calm down when he's afraid to hibernate.  Music courtesy of YouTube’s Audio Library: “Whispering Stream” by E’s...

  
• 08.04.2020

  Teddy Bear Island

  A sequel, of sorts, to the Velveteen Rabbit, in which the nursery magic fairy from Margery William's classic story is hard at work today. An original bedtime story modern fairytale by Marlene Wurfel.    Licences and Attributions: The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams...

  
• 06.29.2020

  The Velveteen Rabbit with Annotations

  This beautiful story written in 1922 by Margery Williams is almost 100 years old and about a time in history before there was antibiotic treatment for scarlet fever, a potentially fatal childhood disease. It's a story not only about survival,...

  
• 05.03.2020

  Lily Reads Letters from her Bright Green Mailbox

  In this episode of Tales from the Lilypad, Lily reads her letters from all over the world and shares her recipe for stories.  Here's the song lyrics for the song Lily recommends to help kids learn to wash their hands properly: Urm...

  
• 03.31.2020

  For Parents How to Write to Lily

  Instructions for parents on how to write a letter to Lily and how to find older episodes.   

  
• 03.31.2020

  Lily's Big Bright Green Mailbox

  The story land mail system brings mail from all over the world to Lily's Big Green Mailbox and she loves to get letters. This episode is inspired by #AloneTogether, one of the key messages of the UN to people around...

  
• 02.29.2020

  Puff and Rose

  This is a Tales from the Lilypad original story by Marlene Wurfel which originally aired in Spring 2017. It is inspired by Puff the Magic Dragon the song by Peter Yarrow and Leonard Lipton popularized by the musical group Peter,...

  
• 01.26.2020

  Three Tales of Yore

  Three of Aesop's fables re-told and re-arranged by Marlene Wurfel for kids: The Donkey in the Lion's Skin, The Crow and the Pitcher, and The Milkmaid and the Pail. Aesop was one of the sages of Ancient Greece, like Socrates....

  
• 12.21.2019

  The Little Fir Tree

  This is a sad story, listeners. Like so many stories of yore, it has suffering and loss.  It's a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Fir Tree, a Noreweigan fairytale and beloved Christmas story, a retelling of a classic by Marlene Wurfel for...

  
• 11.30.2019

  The Three Billy Goats Gruff

  A rearrangement and retelling by Marlene Wurfel of the classic Norwegian folktale: the Three Billy Goats Gruff. 

  
• 10.29.2019

  The Very Unimportant Mouse

  Part IV of the Enchanted Cat Castle Series, Tales from the Lilypad original bedtime stories and folktales by Marlene Wurfel. Curd is the littlest and most unimportant creature in the enchanted kingdom. But, oh my cheddar, he's kind. And kind...

  
• 09.30.2019

  Cat Castle III: Primrose Escapes

  A Tales from the Lilypad original bedtime story for kids by Marlene Wurfel in which Primrose the Mouse must escape from the Cat Castle to perform a heroic task. Cats! Alicorns! Razzle Dazzle! An Enchanted Clock Tower!

  
• 08.24.2019

  Cat Castle Part II: Sleepytime in the Enchanted Castle

  This is a sequel to the Tales from the Lilypad's version of Grimm's The Poor Miller's Boy and the Cat. In the Grimm's fairytale, a poor boy is rescued by a cat who brings him to her enchanted castle in...

  
• 07.27.2019

  Cat Castle Part I: Fairytale

  A Tales from the Lilypad retell of Grimm's The Poor Miller's Boy and the Cat. This fairytale has it all: romance, adventure, comeuppance, revenge, enchanted forests, and a magic castle where all the servants are kittens.

  
• 06.30.2019

  The Polka Dot Story

  Vintage Tales from the Lilypad circa 2015: The Polka Dot Story. An original story for Kids & Family by Marlene Wurfel.

  
• 05.28.2019

  Surly the Garden Gnome

  Surly the Garden Gnome is annoyed by the lack of instructions on parenting that he finds in the Gnominomicon. 1) Be Kind. 2) Listen Deeply. How is that helpful advice? Especially when he finds his garden overrun by baby fairies....

  
• 04.21.2019

  Mom and Pop's Bunny Burrow and Egg Shop

  This episode is dedicated to all the bunnies all over the world who sleep snug in an underground burrow, and to kids who dream of easter baskets and hunting for eggs on Easter morning.

  
• 03.31.2019

  Lily in the Cottage Garden

  Can we tend to and care for our feelings and emotions just like we can tend to a garden? Episode 53 is a mindfulness story.

  
• 02.28.2019

  The Changeling

  Another adventure of the boy and girl whose job is the preparation and service of oatmeal. Fairies! Potions! Portals to another magical realm!

  
• 01.30.2019

  Earth Air and Water Fairy Sleep Meditation

  Another original sleep mediation for kids to help them build mindfulness techniques for healthy sleep. This one has ocean wave and bird sounds for white noise and to generate a feeling of wellness.

  
• 12.29.2018

  The Gift of the Magi

  A retelling of a classic 1905 story by O. Henry, an American short story writer well known for his surprise endings. This holiday story has been adapted for younger audiences and is sometimes called The Watch and The Comb story.

  
• 11.29.2018

  Night Rounds in the Menagerie Sleepycast

  This Tales from the Lilypad original sleepycast is to help listeners get sleepy at sleepytime. Go with Jack, the Great Pyrenees dog, as he makes his night rounds of the castle menagerie while the prince and princess sleep. All is...

  
• 11.28.2018

  Night Rounds in the Menagerie Sleepycast

  This Tales from the Lilypad original sleepycast is too help listeners get sleepy at sleepytime. Go with Jack, the Great Pyrenees dog as he makes his night-time rounds of the castle menagerie while the prince and princess sleep. All is...