Rebecca Reads

Rebecca Reads episodes

October 13, 2021 The Two Sisters
A Grimm fairy tale with a good moral (and a mean witch).
13 min
October 06, 2021 The Ratcatcher (Pied Piper of Hamelin)
The sad tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin (it is called The Ratcatcher in the Red Fairy Book).
16 min
September 29, 2021 Three Tales of Warning
Three short stories this week, all with the same theme. We will read Henny Penny, The Shepherd and the Wolf (an Aesop story), and Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
14 min
September 22, 2021 How Odin Lost His Eye
Another Norse myth. This is how Odin, All Father, came to only have one eye.
19 min
September 15, 2021 The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Another Grimm story, but this version is just a little different from the Grimm version. One of my favorites.
24 min
September 08, 2021 Tom Tot
An English fairy tale that is a lot like the German story Rumpelstiltskin.
13 min
September 01, 2021 The Golden Goose
A fun story from the Brothers Grimm.
12 min
August 25, 2021 The Story of Hero Makoma
A heroic story from Africa.
18 min
August 18, 2021 The Ugly Duckling
A favorite story from Hans Christian Andersen.
21 min
August 11, 2021 Humpty Dumpty
Another story from L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose.
16 min

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A podcast dedicated to telling stories to children and making them think about it.