Sunday, February 28, 2021
Episode 76: Return to the Crystal Castle
Another original story written by Marlene Wurfel especially for Tales from the Lilypad listeners everywhere. Return to the Crystal Castle with an ambitious princess for some adventure in the moonlight. Will Princess Dee succeed in a heroes quest?
Intro music by Reid Alexander Whelton
FairyTale Waltz 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=USUAN1100232
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Episode 75: Chuckles and the Wolverine
An original story by Marlene Wurfel for Tales from the Lilypad. Chuckles the Snow Gnome performs a daring rescue in the snow-covered boreal forest. He saves a wolverine. But who will save chuckles?
Intro music by Reid Alexander Whelton.
Sound effects courtesy Creative Commons Universal Public Domain Licence and a Creative Commons Attribution Licence via freesound.org. Thank you Pedaling Prince.
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Episode 73: The Rich Man and the Shoemaker
A short fable by LaFontaine performed and arranged by Marlene Wurfel with a special guest: Vancouver Island's Captain Thunderpants.
Friday, October 30, 2020
Episode 72: Stella Star Walker and her White Wolf Neon
This is 15 minutes of relaxation and visualization. Stella Starwalker and her wolf, Neon, stroll through the starscape. They drink from the Milky Way, they see Pleiades, Orion, and other constellations, rest by the Tree of Life, and eventually fall asleep as the sun rises. What do star wolves dream of? Star bunnies, of course.
Be well, Darlings.
Music "Other World 7" by Almusic34 via www.freesound.org and a Creative Commons License
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Episode 71: Teddy Bear Island Loving Kindness Meditation
Teddy Bear Island II: Waffles learns a Loving Kindness Meditation Technique from Tuffy the Griz
Music courtesy of YouTube’s Audio Library:
“Whispering Stream” by E’s Jammy Jams
“Somnolent” by The Tides
& AnaCaptainslogue by Noir et Blanc Vie
Meditation technique inspired with gratitude by a Loving-Kindness meditation by Dr. Emma Seppala, Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education.
Monday, August 3, 2020
Episode 70: Teddy Bear Island
A sequel, of sorts, to the Velveteen Rabbit, in which the nursery magic fairy from Margery William's classic story is hard at work today. An original bedtime story modern fairytale by Marlene Wurfel.
Licences and Attributions:
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (1922) is part of the public domain
Music: Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod
under a Creative Commons Attribution license via the YouTube Audio Library
https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music?nv=1
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100787
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Fantasy Windchimes by Northern87 on freesound.org
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Episode 69: The Velveteen Rabbit with Annotation
This beautiful story written in 1922 by Margery Williams is almost 100 years old and about a time in history before there was antibiotic treatment for scarlet fever, a potentially fatal childhood disease. It's a story not only about survival, but resilience, change, love, and fairy magic.
Read and annotated by Marlene Wurfel
Licences and Attributions:
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (1922) is part of the public domain
Music:
Gymnopedie No.1 by Kevin MacLeod
Meditation Impromptu No.2 by Kevin MacLeod and Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod
under a Creative Commons Attribution license via the YouTube Audio Library
https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music?nv=1
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100787
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Birdsong sample by juskiddink on freesound.org via a creative commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
& Fantasy Windchimes by Northern87 on freesound.org
Sunday, May 3, 2020
Episode 68: Lily Reads her Letters
Thank you listeners for all the letter love!
In this episode Lily reads her letters from all over the world and shares her recipe for stories.
Lyrics for the song Lily recommends to help kids learn to wash their hands properly:
Urm urm went the little green frog one day
Urm urm went the little green frog
Urm urm went the little green frog one day
And the frogs went urm urm eh
But we know frogs go La de dah de dah
La de da de da, La de da de da,
We all know frogs go La de dah de dah
They don't go urm urm eh
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Episode 67: Lily's Bright Green Mailbox
In this episode, inspired by the "Alone Together" message, one of many key messages by the UN to families fighting pandemic with self-isolation, Lily encourages listeners to think about how connected we all are and to write letters to her or someone else.
Episode 66: How to Write to Lily a frog who lives in a pond and loves to tell stories
Instructions for parents on how to write a letter to Lily and how to find older episodes.
Friday, February 28, 2020
Episode 65: Puff and Rose Rereleased
This is a Tales from the Lilypad remix of the Puff the Magic dragon song by Peter Yarrow and Leonard Lipton popularized by the musical group Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1963 hit. In this retelling by Marlene Wurfel, a modern little girl named Rose finds Puff hidden in a cave in the land called Honalee. This episode features an acoustic guitar version of the song Puff the Magic Dragon by Jorge Nolla. His website is: http://profdeguitare.com/
Sunday, January 26, 2020
Episode 64: Three Tales of Yore
Three of Aesop's fables re-told and re-arranged by Marlene Wurfel for kids. Aesop was one of the sages of Ancient Greece, like Socrates. The stories ascribed to him are thousands of years old (all dating to at least 600 b.c.) and are called fables because they always include a moral lesson.
Friday, December 20, 2019
Episode 63: The Little Fir Tree
Merry Christmas, from Tales from the Lilypad. I've been researching Norwegian folktales and, as always, am awed by the sadness and suffering in children's stories of yore. This is a sad story, or is it? It's about how it feels to be a little tree. Or is it more about being a person?
A retelling by Marlene Wurfel of Hans Christian Andersen's beloved Christmas classic story for kids & family.
Friday, November 29, 2019
Episode 62: Three Billy Goats Gruff
Rearrangement and retelling by Marlene Wurfel of the Norwegian folktale the Three Billy Goat's Gruff. A bedtime story for the littlest, middlest, and biggest siblings.
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