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HENNY PENNYGREEN SERIES (ages 4 & up)Copyright © 2023 by P. Haines-Ainsworth & Terence Alaric Levittproduced by Winking Kat Books"HENNY PENNY" is a musical mash-up of two classic fables, "The Little Red Hen" and "Chicken Little". Our story features Henny Penny over the course of four seasons as she plants & harvests her wheat, then turns the wheat into flour. Every time she has a big task to do, her friends make excuses not to help her. When she uses the flour to...

THE ARTIST'S BRUSHRed Series (ages 6 & up)Copyright 2022 by P. Haines-Ainsworth and Terence Alaric Levitt & Larry Bridgespublished by Winking Kat BooksThis delightful new episode of Winking Kat Tales is adapted from an old Dutch fairytale - although the fairy in this story isn't the usual type of magical fairy. He is a wood fairy or elf named Haan e'Kam. When Haan e'Kam spots a young, unsuccessful artist named Johannes, he decides to play a clever trick on him....

THE LEGEND OF ROBIN HOODRed Series (ages 7 & up)Copyright 2022 by P. Haines-Ainsworth and Terence Alaric Levittpublished by Winking Kat BooksThis new, and slightly silly, musical adaptation about the famous heroic bandit, Robin Hood, features the familiar characters of Robin Hood, Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, as well as the treacherous duo of Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. All is not well in Nottingham. Good King Richard leaves England in the hands of his greedy ...

GREEN SERIES (ages 4 & up)Copyright © 2021 by P. Haines-Ainsworth & Terence Alaric Levittproduced by Winking Kat BooksThe Musicians of Bremen is a musical re-telling of the familiar story from Germany about a group of 'retired' animals who must find a new purpose in life. Ida the donkey, Schnookie the Cat, and Red the Rooster have all been dismissed by their owners because they've grown too old to do the job they spent their lives doing. They each search for a new pu...

Bonus EpisodeIn this episode Pat interviews Fox 8 Meteorologist, Nicondra Norwood, about the weather in New Orleans and asks the very important question, "Does it Ever Snow on the Bayou?". Since it's a very important part of the story of our musical, Bayou Bug Tales, we thought we better find out the truth.This episode also has some new information about what's happening at Winking Kat Tales and our new blog, TaleBehindTheTale.com that offers lots of fun facts about the stories an...

THE SCARECROWRed Series (ages 7 & up)Copyright 2020 by P. Haines-Ainsworth and Terence Alaric Levittpublished by Winking Kat Books"The Scarecrow" is a new musical adaptation of a short story by the popular American author, Washington Irving. Like many of Washington Irving's stories, the Scarecrow is set in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains at the beginning of the 19th Century. The main character is a scarecrow constructed by the Widow DeWitt to help kee...