Episode 97: The Nightingale

A new telling of The Nightingale by Marlene Wurfel. Based on the literary fairytale by Hans Christian Anderson but rearranged for post-digital, post-AI listeners. The Nightingale is a little brown bird whose voice has the power to change the world. Kind of like yours. Original music by Reid Alexander Whelton. Artwork by Adobe Firefly generative AI. A Tales from the Lilypad original by Marlene Wurfel.

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.

Episode 46: Little Red Riding Hood

This story is by special request. Perhaps the most iconic and potent fairytale ever told: Little Red Riding Hood. Tales from the Lilypad does a retelling and rearrangement by Marlene Wurfel for Kids & Family. Special guest appearance by Bluebell the Bluebird as Little Red Riding Hood.

Episode 30: An Arctic Fairy Tale

Remember kids: if you ever find three baby fairies, alone, hungry, and crying in a clump of moss, take them under your wing, feed them flies and berries, and tell them stories all winter long until they are strong enough to make it on their own.

Episode 13: Happy 1st Birthday Tales from the Lilypad - How Twylandia got her Horn Back

In this sequel to Twin Baby Unicorns, Twylandia, who has become "just a horse," gets her horn and her magic back. This happy ending is for some sweet little chickadees who flew to Lily's pad just to demand request it. It's Tales from the Lilypad's 1st birthday. Happy Birthday little podcast and thank you for more than 10,000 listens this year, from me, Lily, a frog.

Episode 12: Twin Baby Unicorns: A fable

In this Tales From the Lilypad original fable by Marlene Wurfel, one baby unicorn will live a life in which she must overcome many obstacles, the other a life of ease. Which of the twin baby unicorns is cursed by a jealous witch?

Episode 10: Snow White and Rose Red

An obscure Brother's Grimm fairytale based on a German folktale, The Ungrateful Dwarf. Snow White and Rose Red are sisters who grow up side by side in an enchanted wood in this Tales from the Lilypad bedtime story. Story re-arranged and re-told by Marlene Wurfel.