Heartweaver: A Children's Story Podcast

Nobody knows what started the fire but they do know that it won’t stop. But what happens after the Hungriest Fire eats their homes, special spots, and entire town?

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“It did not come from one of my candles,” Vita was quick to explain later. After all, she found the small beginning of the Hungry Fire already waiting in her backyard when she got home from school.

Dad and Mom ran to grab blankets and pots of water. Vita stood against her house, her eyes wide, as the fire wooshed and roared. By the time Dad threw a wet blanket on the fire, it had already taken up most of their backyard. It was a very hungry fire.

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Reverie (Piano Version) ft. Adarsh PV by Lahar https://soundcloud.com/musicbylahar Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/al-reverie Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/77EPJ_BcT98

Mittens, who wants to know more about the world, goes on an adventure to find a fox to teach her. She’ll have to be a quick student if she wants to make it back home with her knowledge, however! Based on the fairytale “The Fox and the Cat.”

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Mittens the cat loved storytime just as much as the two tiny humans that lived in her home. She learned about the outside world from those stories. She learned about puzzles and problems. She learned how to think.

But as much as she loved storytime, it left her feeling empty. She wanted more. More adventures. More knowledge. More understanding how the world could work. Her two sources of information – her humans' stories and the stupid dog that always ran away from his home to visit her – just weren’t enough for her anymore. Mittens began to think that she would learn more about her world if she could just go outside.

After all, she hadn’t really been outside since she was a tiny kitten. Mittens kept thinking about how much more she would know if she went into the outside world. The more she thought, the more unhappy she became inside. It wasn’t that she disliked her home or her family. In fact, she never wanted to leave them. She just wanted to have at least one adventure.

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Reverie (Piano Version) ft. Adarsh PV by Lahar https://soundcloud.com/musicbylahar Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/al-reverie Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/77EPJ_BcT98

Mom and Dad plan to sell off her grandparent’s books and home, but Irene Miller has a different plan. She’s going to save that library even if she has to knock on every door or write 200 different letters.

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The Jefferson Street Private library felt like a second home to Irene. Mainly because it also happened to be her grandparents’ home. Or at least, it used to be. Her grandparents had recently moved into Irene’s own home. However, there wasn’t space for three rooms full of books to move in, too.

Irene’s family would have to take out all of their own furniture and possibly the people, too, just to fit her grandparent’s book collection. No, the books had to stay. Her parents planned to sell the books at an auction in a few weeks. Then, they would sell the yellow house, too.

Irene had a different plan. She was going to buy every last book and the house, too.

Music

Reverie (Piano Version) ft. Adarsh PV by Lahar https://soundcloud.com/musicbylahar Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/al-reverie Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/77EPJ_BcT98

Rohn the Mockingbird has one mission to complete: build his love’s nest in the best possible location. When a human girl begins to chase him around, that mission becomes almost impossible to complete.

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Just as Rohn landed on the windowsill, another bird fluttered in from the other side. It was positively the ugliest, most horrendous bird he had ever seen! Rohn’s feathers ruffled up. He spread his wings as he prepared to spring at this intruder. He fanned his wings – black with one bold white stripe on them – in warning. Chat chat chat.

Oh! The nerve of that other bird. He also prepared to leap at Rohn.

This was unforgivable. Rohn jumped at this stranger. Smack. A strange barrier stopped him from reaching the other bird. His head hurt and he felt dizzy. He shook it off and looked up. The other bird looked just as hurt and confused as Rohn felt.

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Reverie (Piano Version) ft. Adarsh PV by Lahar https://soundcloud.com/musicbylahar Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/al-reverie Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/77EPJ_BcT98

The three Billy Goats Gruff live in a meadow with everything they could desire to eat. Except what the most desire is the meadow across the river and, to get to that meadow, they must cross a bridge where a troll lives.

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There once were three brother goats who shared the name Gruff. Nobody knows why they were named Gruff. While the oldest brother did have a very deep, gruff voice, the younger brothers did not. Some guessed they earned that name for their gruff, abrupt manners. Then again, how many goats actually have good manners? Why – goats don’t even know how to chew with their mouths open! If they were named Gruff for bad manners, then so would every other goat in the world.

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She was an ordinary girl who lived in an ordinary world. Nothing remarkable ever happened to her until the day that it did. What will happen when she loses her way?

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She created lots of worlds. Ocean worlds. Worlds where everybody flew. Worlds facing big, scary monsters where she was the only one who could save the day.

On an ordinary afternoon, the Girl would eat her snack. Then she would kiss the cat between his soft little ears. After the cat ran away, like most good cats do, she would go behind her tree to play pretend. After awhile, she would go back inside to drink her milk.

Really, she had a very ordinary life. Nothing exciting ever happened to her. Until the day that it did…

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Reverie (Piano Version) ft. Adarsh PV by Lahar

The Heartweaver is a unique doctor who has the ability to see the hidden pain, hurts, snags, and worries of a heart. She practices healing emotional wounds by taking these dark threads, adding in her colored threads of virtue, and creating beautiful tapestries within the heart. But can she offer healing to a young boy named Dunstan?

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Just as she found beauty in every single day, the Heartweaver also found beauty in every single heart she met.

In fact, the Heartweaver healed by turning her patient’s ugly problems into something beautiful. She took the snagged and tangled threads, smoothed them, and then filled in the gaps with her colorful threads of virtue. The result was always a tapestry, or a picture made from weaving yarn, worthy of being displayed in any art museum. This work-of-art never took away the dark-colored threads. Instead, they became part of the bigger picture.

“After all,” the Heartweaver explained, “The problems of the heart help make a person who he is. If we take away the problems, we also take away the person.”

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Reverie (Piano Version) ft. Adarsh PV by Lahar

What is a heartweaver? What does it have to do with telling stories? Find out now!

Music: Reverie (Piano Version) ft. Adarsh PV by Lahar