• The Boneyard Dog and Friends Halloween Story
    Oct 16 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.

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    12 mins
  • Three Dandelion Stories
    Jul 26 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

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    10 mins
  • A Good Dog Re-released
    May 25 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.

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    15 mins
  • The Nightingale
    Feb 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.

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    16 mins
  • Evergreen: Affirmations for a New Year
    Dec 25 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.

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    10 mins
  • The Forest Bride a Finnish Fairy Tale
    Oct 22 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?

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    18 mins
  • Peter Squirrel
    Sep 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

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    18 mins
  • The Little People: A Fairy Tale by a Real Queen
    Apr 20 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.

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    35 mins