The Little Island Stories Podcast Charlie Shifflett

This is the podcast edition of 🏝 The Little Island Stories. If you’ve already read the first story from Season 2, there’s no need to subject yourself to it again — unless, that is, you want to hear Charlie read it aloud.
Story Synopsis
We’re kicking off Season 2 with a letter that washed ashore The Little Island inside an unusually sophisticated glass bottle. The letter appears to be from the future and written by a child requesting rare supplies from his uncle for a planned journey 🚀 with his friends into space. They are planning some sort of intergalactic 🐻‍❄️ bear hunt. You got all that? 😉



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In this episode, we have a special guest who needs no introduction if you have been reading along or listening to our serialized story on Substack, The Little Island and the Hungry Dog.
Baldy the Seagull — when he’s not visiting the Little Island or gathering gossip from his gull friends on the coast — enjoys scratching out poems in the sand. It’s true! He is quite the poet, and he has kindly agreed to share one of his newest poems with our podcast audience. It is titled “Strawberry Lemonade.”
Thanks to some AI technological wizardry, we are able to translate Baldy’s native gull dialect into English in real-time.
What you will hear is an English-speaking voice that resembles Baldy’s voice if you were to shoot or ride the breeze with him as he hunts for half-eaten bagels, potato chips and oatmeal-raisin cookies (yum!).
Enjoy!
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“I suppose experiencing that storm on the island felt a little like being locked inside a clothes washer — on high spin and cold rinse.
“I’ve never had the, um, privilege, but some of my stuffed, plushy animal friends have and they say it’s just terrible. (My master’s ancient, childhood Teddy said his last experience in the washer was especially traumatic.)
“The worst part: You think it’s all over; the spinning stops; the water has all drained out of the drum; and then — without a warning — the machine (or in my case the storm) starts up all over again. Another high-efficiency spin turning you round and round. Another jet of cold water blasting you in the eyeballs.”
-Marco


Podcast Summary
The story episodes read aloud in this podcast: The Return of Baldy the Seagull, To Catch a Coconut and The Big Storm
Podcast Notes
The Little Island Podcast features read aloud episodes, in-character monologues and author commentary from The Little Island and the Hungry Dog.
In this edition, author Charlie Shifflett reads from Episodes 4-6 of the illustrated kids novel being published on Substack in serial form.
Charlie also reveals that the podcast will soon introduce new features — including funny poems read by The Little Island’s poet-in-residence Baldy the Seagull. So stay tuned!
If you enjoy The Little Island and the Hungry Dog and would like to support Charlie’s work, please consider…
* Subscribing to this Substack (if you haven’t already)
* Telling friends and parents of school-age children about The Little Island Podcast (downloadable on Apple Podcasts, as well as on Substack)
* Purchasing limited edition prints of illustrations from The Little Island and the Hungry Dog. (They can make for great display pieces in a child’s bedroom!)
Thank you for being part of The Little Island community!



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Author Charlie Shifflett reads Episodes 1-3 from The Little Island and the Hungry Dog, an illustrated kids novel published on Substack in weekly installments. Learn more at thelittleis.land


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