Bedtime Stories Podcast Fairytales and Folk Tales from the Lilypad for kids Lily, a frog
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- Kids & Family
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Lily, a frog, tells fairytales, folk tales and bedtime stories to kids.
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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 world, something like yours does. -
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.
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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 window and smoke curling up from the chimney. Could his true love be inside?
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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 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 Alexander Whelton -
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.
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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. “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 Reid Alexander Whelton for Tales from the Lilypad.
Project Gutenberg link to eBook version of Dutch Fairytales for Young Folks: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7871/pg7871-images.html
Customer Reviews
My favourite stories
Hi lily, I love your stories so much. 🐸💖I am 11 nearly 12. I definitely believe that you are a frog because I am a selkie! ( which is pretty hard to believe) If you don’t know what that is, look it up ….. we are pretty rare creatures 🐚🪼🌊 I have trouble getting to sleep sometimes and the first thing I reach for is “tales from the lily pad”I love it 😊 Which part of the world do you live in? I live in Darwin Australia but right now I’m staying with my family in New South Wales 🦘🇦🇺🌏 Have fun on your lily pad! Love from Australia ! P.S can you make a story about a selkie please! I would love to hear about my kind in your stories!! 🌊 P.S ( again ) My human name is Ruby but my selkie name is Lorelie ( no one knows that ) And I am manly Australian Irish (where selkies originated ) French, German, and English
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Mimic me please Lilly and please tell me if you really are a frog and are you a rock star
Your the best
Your the best Lilly and are you really a frog🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ and if you are your at lest good at video games