
Bedtime Stories Podcast Fairytales and Folk Tales from the Lilypad for kids
Kids & Family Podcasts
Bedtime Stories, Fairytales and Folk Tales: Lily, a frog, tells stories for kids & families
Location:
Canada
Genres:
Kids & Family Podcasts
Description:
Bedtime Stories, Fairytales and Folk Tales: Lily, a frog, tells stories for kids & families
Language:
English
Contact:
780-298-2438
Episodes
Episode 100: A Star Suit for You
12/24/2024
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Lily. This is calming, meditative story about a star suit that fits you just right. Put it on to travel through the clouds, dance with the Northern Lights, and visit the stars. "See" Great Bear (Ursa Major), Cygnus, Sirius, Tama Rereti, and other constellations.
Original script and narration by Marlene Wurfel
Audio Mix Features Creative Commons Music via YouTube Studio:
Peacefully by E's Jammy Jams Angel Guides by Jesse Gallagher Shasta Trinity by Jesse Gallagher Owls by Lish Grooves Cosmic Groove Space Travel by Cooper Cannell
#starlore #cygnus #ursamajor #sirius #greatbear
Duration:00:13:46
The Boneyard Dog and Friends Halloween Story
10/15/2024
An original tale of skeletons who get a chance to dance and play one magical halloween night in a spooky boneyard.
Music: Corny Candy by The Soundlings and Among the Stars by Everet Almond.
Duration:00:12:15
Three Dandelion Stories
7/25/2024
Three stories that explore the relationship between dandelions and the wisdom of children.
The Dandelion Who Couldn't Roar is an original fable by Marlene Wurfel for Tales from the Lilypad
The Legend of the Flower Fairy is based on an Aesop's Fable, rewritten and rearranged by M Wurfel
The third story about dandelions in the garden is based on a traditional Sufi tale and rewritten and rearranged for TFTL by M Wurfel
Intro and Outro music by Reid Alexander Whelton
Acoustic music featured Acoustic Guitar by ViraMiller -- https://freesound.org/s/744879/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Duration:00:09:52
A Good Dog Re-released
5/24/2024
A 2016 story re-released form the vaults. An original story, dedicated to the best dog ever, for Tales from the Lilypad by Marlene Wurfel.
Duration:00:14:47
The Nightingale
2/21/2024
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.
Duration:00:15:41
Evergreen: Affirmations for a New Year
12/24/2023
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.
Duration:00:09:56
The Forest Bride a Finnish Fairy Tale
10/21/2023
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?
Duration:00:18:15
Peter Squirrel
9/10/2023
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
Duration:00:17:38
The Little People: A Fairy Tale by a Real Queen
4/19/2023
A version of The Little People by Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roumania (1901). Edited, annotated and re-arranged by Marlene Wurfel.
Music Intro by Reid Alexander Whelton.
Duration:00:35:08
Legend of the Wooden Shoe
1/14/2023
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
Duration:00:13:46
Merry Christmas from Lily
12/3/2022
Peace, love & joy from Lily to you!
Music by DJ Williams courtesy YouTube Audio Library
Duration:00:08:31
Six Husky Puppies
10/19/2022
This poem is inspired by the land and literature of Yukon, Canada
Duration:00:06:54
The Orange Shirt Story featuring Phyllis Webstad
9/13/2022
“The Orange Shirt Story” read by author Phyllis Webstad with permission from Medicine Wheel Education www.medicinewheel.education
This is the true story of a little girl and her very important orange shirt. Six-year-old Phyllis Webstad was as excited to wear her shiny new orange shirt as she was to attend school for the first time. But her first day at the St. Joseph Mission near Williams Lake, BC was nothing like she expected. Her orange shirt was taken away from her, never to be returned.
Since 2013, each year on September 30th, we wear orange to honour the Residential School survivors like Phyllis. We honour their experiences and the experiences of their families. Orange Shirt Day is an opportunity for Indigenous Peoples, local governments, schools and communities to all come together in the spirit of reconciliation and hope for future generations of children.
It is a day to reaffirm that EVERY CHILD MATTERS.
Music by Alexander Reid Whelton
For more information about Orange Shirt Day visit www.orangeshirtday.org
Books available: medicinewheelpublishing.com/collections/english-books/products/the-orange-shirt-story
Duration:00:13:12
Thor and the Storm Fairies
7/5/2022
A chocolate lab named Thor is caught in a summer storm. He catches something in the rain: a storm fairy.
A Tales From the Lilypad original story by Marlene Wurfel
Music: Midsummer Sky by Kevin MacLeod & Danse Macabre by Kevin MacLeod
Storm sounds courtesy of a Creative Commons Licence via freesound.org
Midsummer Sky by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100158 Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Danse Macabre - Busy Strings by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100556
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Duration:00:14:22
The Moosicorn Part III
5/22/2022
Lily is back for Season II of Tales from the Lilypad with an original story by Marlene Wurfel: The Moosicorn Part III. Mordecai is taking magic lessons from the Aurora Borealis. But what was his homework?
Intro Music by Reid Alexander Whelton Sound Effects courtesy and Creative Commons Licence via freesound.org Lake sounds and warbler sounds by BenBonCan, Story Logo sound by SergeQuadrado
Duration:00:11:28
Update from Lily
3/12/2022
Update: Lily is just fine but still hibernating. She'll be back in May with a brand new season of Tales from the Lilypad Bedtime Stories and Folk Tales.
Looking to stream older stories? Visit talesfromthelilypad.com
Amazon Music, Apple Music and Spotify subscribers can search for "Best of Tales from the Lilypad" to find the Best of Tales from the Lilypad Sleep Stories and Best of Tales from the Lilypad Stories albums.
Music for this episode "Bedtime" courtesy Reed Mathis
Duration:00:06:00
The Dream Train
12/31/2021
You are the hero of this audio adventure through a dreamscape. Happy New Year 2022! Wishing you great sleeps, much growth, and big love.
Story, voicework, and audio mix by Marlene Wurfel > www.marlenewurfel.com
Train sounds & miscellaneous by:
Benboncan; Caquet; Mredig & Inspector J via a Creative Commons Attribution Licence freesound.org https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Music A Simple Lullaby by Jesse Keller via Jamendo
Blue Dream by Cheel via YouTube audio library
Sea of Ancestry by Jesse Gallagher via YouTube audio library
Snowy Peaks by Chris Haugen via YouTube audio library
* Emily Carr and Woo are real historical figures you can learn more about :)
Duration:00:13:19
Joy the Christmas Mouse
11/28/2021
From deep in the Tales from the Lilypad archive (2016) an original Christmas story by Marlene Wurfel. Joy! Magic! Sweetness! This story is about mice who live in a Candy Cane factory and the kind janitor who finds their village under the pile of rejected boxes.
Duration:00:09:54
Three Witchy Ghosty Fairy Stories for Halloween 2021
10/31/2021
Happy Halloween to my favourite witches, ghosts, fairies, gnomes, golems, princesses, ghostbusters, Cruellas, Ted Lassos, dragon protectors, cats, mice, zombies, doctors, pokemons, skeletons, clowns, superheroes, athletes, jack-o-lanterns, and dinosaurs.
Three stories about a tiny family that lives in a pumpkin, a little ghost who learns a lesson about overcoming his fears from a smart little witch, and a sequel to Twin Baby Unicorn's called The Witch's Recovery.
"The Tiny Family Who Lives in a Pumpkin" and "Boo" by Marlene Wurfel "The Witch's Recovery" by Tiffany Passey
Music: Tiptoe out the Back by Dan 'Lebo' Leibowitz courtesy YouTube Audio Library
Duration:00:17:51
The Forest Library feat. Lexi the Squirrel Librarian
9/30/2021
This Tales from the Lilypad original by Marlene Wurfel is a story within a story within a story. Enjoy!
Original intro and outro music by Reid Alexander Whelton.
Duration:00:12:54