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
Dear Lily ❤️
I love you and your episodes and my favorite episode is episode 84 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 :) :) -good job 😁 And I am a lizard🦎named Allison and can you make more episodes where you read mail please please please please please please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 and what is your real name? And is your real name Lily
5 stars take my money
It’s Calming and Relaxing and I fall asleep in 0.3 seconds
Dear lily
I love your podcast so much your calm voice helps me sleep 😴🩷🩷🩷🩷please please tell me where to find the Billy gouts gruff I love that one so much oh by the way my name is Alina and I really like nightangel