Skookum Kid's Stories

Peter McCully

Today's Children's Story Books are Podcasts! Hosts Dave Graham and Peter McCully bring you "Skookum Kid's Stories", delightful, original stories about a boy named Peter and his pet Eskimo Dog "Gracie" who are always finding an adventure, and Captain Dave of the "Mellow Submarine". He and "Larry the Lobster" find excitement above and below the waterline.

  1. 5d ago

    The Mellow Submarine: The Thanksgiving Harvest

    Send us a text about this episode! Download and print colouring pages featuring Captain Dave and the Mellow Submarine’s Thanksgiving Harvest: https://bit.ly/S3EP04ColouringPages What does a garden look like when it grows beside the sea, and who has been tending it for thousands of years? Thanksgiving is coming to French Creek Harbour, and Larry the Lobster has been cooking for a whole week. Cranberry chowder, roasted squash, fresh bread and blackberry crumble are ready for the big harbour feast aboard the Mellow Submarine. Then a radio call comes in from Elder Rose at Deep Bay. Last night’s big tide has piled driftwood, bull kelp and eelgrass against her family’s clam garden, and the clams underneath can’t get the fresh, oxygen-rich water they need.  On the way to Deep Bay, Captain Dave explains how Coast Salish peoples built low rock walls along the low tide line long ago, creating flatter, wider beaches where clams could thrive. It isn’t fishing from the sea, he tells Larry. It’s farming with the sea. Working slowly with the submarine’s robotic arm, Larry helps Elder Rose clear the tangle without disturbing a single hand-placed stone, and together they harvest only what the feast needs.  Skookum Kids Stories is a Vancouver Island children’s podcast featuring original adventures with Peter & Gracie, The Eskimo Dog and The Mellow Submarine with Captain Dave, Larry the Lobster and other unforgettable characters. Inspired by the people, places, wildlife and history of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, each story encourages imagination, curiosity and a love of reading. Downloadable colouring pages for many episodes! Skookum Kids Stories is part of the PULSE Podcast Community. You’ll find all episodes of Skookum Kid’s Stories, on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, and YouTube Podcasts. Sponsor for this episode is: Fireside Books. Check out The PULSE Podcast on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, TikTok and YouTube podcasts, as well as PULSECommunity.ca. Sign up for our weekly newsletter of the latest podcasts and contests! Check out the Vancouver Island Podcast Directory: The Vancouver Island Podcast Directory is a free public resource curated by The PULSE Community, helping listeners discover podcasts produced on Vancouver Island and the surrounding coastal islands. #SkookumKidsStories #MellowSubmarine #ThePulseCommunity #PulsePodcast #VancouverIslandKids #FrenchCreek #VancouverIsland #ClamGarden Support the show

    The Mellow Submarine: The Thanksgiving Harvest
  2. Sep 23

    Peter & Gracie: The Great Garden Harvest

    Send us a text about this episode! Download and print colouring pages from Peter and Gracie's Great Garden Harvest Adventure: https://bit.ly/S3EP03ColouringPages After a summer of planting, watering and weeding, the carrots, green beans, pumpkins, tomatoes and cabbages are finally ready to pick. Along the way, Peter learns the right way to pull a carrot (with a little unplanned help from Gracie), discovers that carrots can be purple, and finds out that pumpkins like to be asked nicely. Gracie is, as always, the most enthusiastic helper in the garden, sniffing out tomatoes, catching green beans before they reach the basket and supervising every step.  When Peter and his mum take a basket of fresh vegetables next door to Mrs. Alder, Peter discovers that giving away part of the harvest feels as good as picking the biggest pumpkin. The day ends with a harvest dinner made entirely from the backyard garden and a toast to the best garden helpers on Vancouver Island. Skookum Kids Stories is a Vancouver Island children's podcast featuring original adventures with Peter & Gracie, The Eskimo Dog and The Mellow Submarine with Captain Dave, Larry the Lobster and other unforgettable characters. Inspired by the people, places, wildlife and history of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, each story encourages imagination, curiosity and a love of reading. Downloadable colouring pages for many episodes! Skookum Kids Stories is part of The PULSE Podcast Community. You can also voice message https://thepulsecommunity.ca/contact/ Skookum Kid's Stories and be a part of the podcast! You'll find all episodes of Skookum Kid's Stories, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio, and YouTube Podcasts. Click here to learn how to Support the show. Special Thanks to Our Sponsor Fireside Books for supporting ThePulseCommunity.ca. Check out The PULSE Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio, TikTok and YouTube Podcasts, as well as PULSECommunity.ca. Sign up for our weekly newsletter of the latest podcasts and contests! Check out the Vancouver Island Podcast Directory: The Vancouver Island Podcast Directory is a free public resource curated by The PULSE Community, helping listeners discover podcasts produced on Vancouver Island and the surrounding coastal islands. #SkookumKidsStories #PeterAndGracie #GardenHarvest #VancouverIslandPodcasts #AmericanEskimoDog #KidsPodcast #ParksvilleBC #BedtimeStoriesForKids Support the show

    Peter & Gracie: The Great Garden Harvest
  3. Sep 16

    The Mellow Submarine: The Craig Bay Caves

    Send us a text about this episode! Download and print colouring pages featuring Captain Dave, Larry the Lobster and the Craig Bay sea caves!: https://bit.ly/S3EP02ColouringPages Captain Dave and Larry the Lobster steer the Mellow Submarine into a stretch of underwater caves just south of French Creek Harbour, along the rocky shoreline of Craig Bay. Captain Dave explains how thousands of years of wave action carved these tunnels out of soft, crumbling rock, and the pair explore the winding passages together, admiring barnacles, sea cucumbers and a shy octopus along the way. But when a flickering light catches Larry's eye, he slips through a side passage to take a closer look, and quickly discovers that one glowing cluster of plankton is not worth getting lost over. Alone in the dark and unable to find his way back, Larry has to remember Captain Dave's most important rule: stay calm, and wait to be found. Captain Dave, meanwhile, seeks out an unlikely guide, a ninety-three-year-old rockfish named Quillback who has called the Craig Bay caves home for longer than anyone can remember, and who knows every twist and turn by heart.  Skookum Kids Stories is a Vancouver Island children's podcast featuring original adventures with Peter & Gracie, The Eskimo Dog and The Mellow Submarine with Captain Dave, Larry the Lobster and other unforgettable characters. Inspired by the people, places, wildlife and history of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, each story encourages imagination, curiosity and a love of reading. Downloadable colouring pages for many episodes! Skookum Kids Stories is part of the PULSE Podcast Community. You'll find all episodes of Skookum Kid's Stories, on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, and YouTube Podcasts. Sponsor for this episode is: Fireside Books. Check out The PULSE Podcast on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart and YouTube podcasts, as well as ThePulseCommunity.ca. Sign up for our weekly newsletter of the latest podcasts and contests! Check out the Vancouver Island Podcast Directory: The Vancouver Island Podcast Directory is a free public resource curated by The PULSE Community, helping listeners discover podcasts produced on Vancouver Island and the surrounding coastal islands. #SkookumKidsStories #MellowSubmarine #ThePulseCommunity #PulsePodcast #VancouverIslandKids #FrenchCreek #VancouverIsland #CraigBay Support the show

    The Mellow Submarine: The Craig Bay Caves
  4. Sep 9

    Peter & Gracie: The Corn Maze Adventure

    Send us a text about this episode! Download and print colouring pages from Peter and Gracie's Corn Maze Adventure: https://bit.ly/S3EP01ColouringPages  Join Peter and his fluffy American Eskimo dog, Gracie, for a crisp autumn morning at Silver Meadows Farm, where this year's corn maze is the biggest one yet. There are pumpkins piled high, hay bales stacked into towers, and a friendly scarecrow keeping watch by the gate. Along the way, they meet Farmer Sam, who challenges them to track down five hidden wooden animal markers, and a new friend named Mia, who joins the hunt with her dad. Between corn jokes, pumpkin patches, and the smell of kettle corn drifting through the rows, the group gets separated, and Peter and his mom find themselves turned around in the tall stalks with no clear way out.  That's when Gracie's famous nose comes to the rescue. Sniffing out the scent of the kettle corn stand, she leads Peter and his mom straight back to the middle of the maze, where they find the last hidden marker, ring the big brass bell, and earn their Corn Maze Champion badges. Skookum Kids Stories is a Vancouver Island children's podcast featuring original adventures with Peter & Gracie, The Eskimo Dog and The Mellow Submarine with Captain Dave, Larry the Lobster and other unforgettable characters. Inspired by the people, places, wildlife and history of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, each story encourages imagination, curiosity and a love of reading. Downloadable colouring pages for many episodes! Skookum Kids Stories is part of The PULSE Podcast Community. You'll find all episodes of Skookum Kid's Stories, on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, and YouTube Podcasts. Special Thanks to Our Sponsor Fireside Books for supporting ThePulseCommunity.ca. Check out The PULSE Podcast on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, TikTok and YouTube podcasts, as well as PULSECommunity.ca. Sign up for our weekly newsletter of the latest podcasts and contests! Check out the Vancouver Island Podcast Directory: The Vancouver Island Podcast Directory is a free public resource curated by The PULSE Community, helping listeners discover podcasts produced on Vancouver Island and the surrounding coastal islands. #SkookumKidsStories #PeterAndGracie #CornMazeAdventure #VancouverIslandPodcasts #AmericanEskimoDog #KidsPodcast #ParksvilleBC #BedtimeStoriesForKids Support the show

    Peter & Gracie: The Corn Maze Adventure
  5. Sep 1

    The Mellow Submarine: Rescue at Lasqueti Island!

    Send us a text about this episode! Download and print colouring pages featuring Captain Dave, Larry the Lobster, and Shelly the Sea Turtle’s daring rescue!: https://bit.ly/S2EP50ColouringPages When an old friend calls for help across the Strait of Georgia, can Captain Dave and Larry the Lobster free a seal pup in time? Captain Dave and Larry the Lobster are off on a new adventure along the Vancouver Island coast when an old friend calls for help. Shelly the Sea Turtle, piloting her own submarine named Pearl Dream, has found a young harbour seal pup tangled in a ghost trap, an old crab trap lost long ago that is still catching creatures on the sea floor. Together, the crews of the Mellow Submarine and Pearl Dream cross the Strait of Georgia toward Lasqueti Island to help. Along the way, Captain Dave shares what makes harbour seals so remarkable, and talks with Larry about the Coast Salish Guardian programs that watch over the Salish Sea. When they reach the tangled pup, it takes teamwork, to free him safely and reunite him with his mother.  Skookum Kids Stories is a Vancouver Island children’s podcast featuring original adventures with Peter & Gracie, The Eskimo Dog and The Mellow Submarine with Captain Dave, Larry the Lobster and other unforgettable characters. Inspired by the people, places, wildlife and history of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, each story encourages imagination, curiosity and a love of reading. Downloadable colouring pages for many episodes! Skookum Kids Stories is part of the PULSE Podcast Community. You’ll find all episodes of Skookum Kid’s Stories, on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, and YouTube Podcasts. Click here to learn how to Support the show. Sponsor for this episode is: Fireside Books. Check out The PULSE Podcast on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart and YouTube podcasts, as well as PULSECommunity.ca. Sign up for our weekly newsletter of the latest podcasts and contests! Check out the Vancouver Island Podcast Directory: The Vancouver Island Podcast Directory is a free public resource curated by The PULSE Community, helping listeners discover podcasts produced on Vancouver Island and the surrounding coastal islands. #SkookumKidsStories #MellowSubmarine #ThePulseCommunity #PulsePodcast #VancouverIslandKids #FrenchCreek #VancouverIsland #SealPupRescue Support the show

    The Mellow Submarine: Rescue at Lasqueti Island!
  6. Aug 26

    Peter & Gracie: The Camera Safari Adventure

    Send us a text about this episode! Download and print colouring pages from Peter and Gracie's Camera Safari Adventure: https://bit.ly/S2EP49ColouringPages Peter's grandpa hands him an old instant camera one morning - the kind that only holds ten pictures before it runs out. Fewer shots means Peter has to choose carefully, and as he and Gracie head down the road to Coombs for a day of goats on the roof, butterflies, kettle corn, and maple walnut ice cream, he learns that the best moments don't always come from behind the camera lens. In this episode, Peter and Gracie explore the real sights of Coombs, BC, including the famous goats grazing on a grassy rooftop, the fluttering wings of Butterfly World, and the sweet smell of kettle corn drifting through the market. Along the way, Peter discovers that some of his favourite memories - a butterfly landing on his nose, Gracie's nose buried in a popcorn bag, a goat's friendly sneeze - never make it into a photograph at all.  Skookum Kids Stories is a Vancouver Island children's podcast featuring original adventures with Peter & Gracie, The Eskimo Dog and The Mellow Submarine with Captain Dave, Larry the Lobster and other unforgettable characters. Inspired by the people, places, wildlife and history of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, each story encourages imagination, curiosity and a love of reading. Downloadable colouring pages for many episodes! Skookum Kids Stories is part of The PULSE Podcast Community. You'll find all episodes of Skookum Kid's Stories, on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, and YouTube Podcasts. Click here to learn how to Support the show. Special Thanks to Our Sponsor Fireside Books for supporting ThePulseCommunity.ca. Check out The PULSE Podcast on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, TikTok and YouTube podcasts, as well as PULSECommunity.ca. Sign up for our weekly newsletter of the latest podcasts and contests! Check out the Vancouver Island Podcast Directory: The Vancouver Island Podcast Directory is a free public resource curated by The PULSE Community, helping listeners discover podcasts produced on Vancouver Island and the surrounding coastal islands. #SkookumKidsStories #PeterAndGracie #VancouverIslandPodcasts #AmericanEskimoDog #KidsPodcast #ParksvilleBC #BedtimeStoriesForKids Support the show

    Peter & Gracie: The Camera Safari Adventure
  7. Aug 18

    The Mellow Submarine: Marina the Mermaid’s Kelp Forest Cave

    Send us a text about this episode! Download and print colouring pages featuring Captain Dave, Larry the Lobster and Marina the Mermaid:  Captain Dave and Larry the Lobster follow an invitation from an old friend, Marina the Mermaid, deep into the kelp forest off French Creek Harbour on Vancouver Island’s coast. In this gentle underwater adventure, kids will meet a giant Pacific octopus, a garden of sea anemones, and glowing plankton that make Marina’s family cave feel like a room full of tiny stars. Along the way, Marina teaches the crew about kelp forest ecology - how sea otters keep the balance by eating urchins, how kelp holds onto rocks with a “holdfast” instead of roots, and how every creature, from rockfish to seahorses, has its own job to do. When the crew discovers a tangle of old fishing net drifting into Marina’s anemone garden, Captain Dave and Larry work together with Marina to free it and carry it safely to shore. Skookum Kids Stories is a Vancouver Island children’s podcast featuring original adventures with Peter & Gracie, The Eskimo Dog and The Mellow Submarine with Captain Dave, Larry the Lobster and other unforgettable characters. Inspired by the people, places, wildlife and history of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, each story encourages imagination, curiosity and a love of reading. Downloadable colouring pages for many episodes! Skookum Kids Stories is part of the PULSE Podcast Community. You’ll find all episodes of Skookum Kid’s Stories, on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, and YouTube Podcasts. Click here to learn how to Support the show. Sponsor for this episode is: Fireside Books. Check out The PULSE Podcast on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart and YouTube podcasts, as well as PULSECommunity.ca. Sign up for our weekly newsletter of the latest podcasts and contests! Check out the Vancouver Island Podcast Directory: The Vancouver Island Podcast Directory is a free public resource curated by The PULSE Community, helping listeners discover podcasts produced on Vancouver Island and the surrounding coastal islands. #SkookumKidsStories #MellowSubmarine #KelpForest #VancouverIslandKids #FrenchCreek #VancouverIsland #ThePulseCommunity #PulsePodcast Support the show

    The Mellow Submarine: Marina the Mermaid’s Kelp Forest Cave
  8. Aug 11

    Peter & Gracie: A Day in the Life of Gracie

    Send us a text about this episode! Download and print colouring pages from Peter and Gracie's Day in the Life Adventure: https://bit.ly/S2EP47ColouringPages Join Gracie, Peter's fluffy American Eskimo Dog, as she takes listeners through one whole day on Vancouver Island - from the first ear-lick wake-up call to the last happy sigh at bedtime. Gracie shares her official morning duties, a sandy romp at Rathtrevor Beach, a car-window stakeout of the rooftop goats in Coombs, and the biggest moment of her day: hearing the school bus round the corner with Peter on board. Along the way, kids will spot familiar mid-Island landmarks - Qualicum Beach, French Creek Marina, and the market at Coombs. Skookum Kids Stories is a Vancouver Island children's podcast featuring original adventures with Peter & Gracie, The Eskimo Dog and The Mellow Submarine with Captain Dave, Larry the Lobster and other unforgettable characters. Inspired by the people, places, wildlife and history of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, each story encourages imagination, curiosity and a love of reading. Downloadable colouring pages for many episodes! Skookum Kids Stories is part of The PULSE Podcast Community. You can also voice message Skookum Kid's Stories and be a part of the podcast! You'll find all episodes of Skookum Kid's Stories, on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, and YouTube Podcasts. Click here to learn how to Support the show. Special Thanks to Our Sponsor Fireside Books for supporting ThePulseCommunity.ca. Check out The PULSE Podcast on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, TikTok and YouTube podcasts, as well as PULSECommunity.ca. Sign up for our weekly newsletter of the latest podcasts and contests! Check out the Vancouver Island Podcast Directory: The Vancouver Island Podcast Directory is a free public resource curated by The PULSE Community, helping listeners discover podcasts produced on Vancouver Island and the surrounding coastal islands. #SkookumKidsStories #PeterAndGracie #ADayInTheLife #VancouverIslandPodcasts #AmericanEskimoDog #KidsPodcast #ParksvilleBC #BedtimeStoriesForKids Support the show

    Peter & Gracie: A Day in the Life of Gracie

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Today's Children's Story Books are Podcasts! Hosts Dave Graham and Peter McCully bring you "Skookum Kid's Stories", delightful, original stories about a boy named Peter and his pet Eskimo Dog "Gracie" who are always finding an adventure, and Captain Dave of the "Mellow Submarine". He and "Larry the Lobster" find excitement above and below the waterline.