Bedtime Stories Podcast Fairytales and Folk Tales from the Lilypad for kids

This must be the worst Tales From the Lilypad Episode yet. Or perhaps it's the best. Possibly it's just middling the pack. In any case: urine need of a warning: this episode use the word "pee" exactly 21 times and is mostly about pee. This modern remake of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" has nothing to do with wolves but lots to do with soggy diapers. 

This must be the worst Tales From the Lilypad Episode yet. Or perhaps it's the best. Possibly it's just middling the pack. In any case: urine need of a warning: this episode use the word "pee" exactly 21 times and is mostly about pee. This modern remake of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" has nothing to do with wolves but lots to do with soggy diapers. 

The Lion and the Mouse is one of Aesop's many fables. In this story, a mouse needs to rely on the mercy of a powerful lion. She promises that if he sets her free, she will spare his life one day too.  Happy New Year! 

The Lion and the Mouse is one of Aesop's many fables. In this story, a mouse needs to rely on the mercy of a powerful lion. She promises that if he sets her free, she will spare his life one day too.  Happy New Year! 

A Christmas story by Tales from the Lilypad based on "The Red Horse" by Elsa Moeshclin, 1924. A boy receives a red horse for Christmas which comes to life and takes him on a magical journey.

This Tales from the Lilypad original Halloween story by Marlene Wurfel stars a newborn baby bat and her mama, and a lonely monster named Dave who fears he is the last of his kind.

A retelling of Thumbelina. The best known version was written by Hans Christian Anderson in 1835. In Marlene Wurfel's version,  the tiny, beautiful girl born in a flower does not become a child bride, and some Canadian fauna play roles in the story.

Classic and beloved fairytale The Princess and the Pea retold by Marlene Wurfel. Who is the stranger knocking at the door in the middle of a terrible thunderstorm? Could she be... is she possibly... a real princess?

Amethyst, a cinnamon-coloured black bear, develops a taste for people food at a Kootenay Mountain campsite. 

This Tales From The Lilypad original bedtime story by Marlene Wurfel is a tribute to one of the best dogs who ever lived.  We love you and miss you Gus!

This mindfulness story was recorded in a pond full of little froggies. It's about the littlest frog in the pond, Buttercup, and how she learns to calm down.

The more than 2000 year old fable of City Mouse and Country Mouse, re-told at the Lilypad by Lily, a frog, and two little mice.

Happy St. Paddy's day. In this original Tales from the Lilypad story by Marlene Wurfel, Lucky the Leprechaun finds more than he was expecting in a pot of gold. This one has gold, mischief, rainbows, magic, dragons, fairies, shamrocks and a good mug o' dandelion ale.

This bedtime story is inspired by a 1959 picture book called "Winter and the Children."  Rewritten and rearranged for contemporary listeners at the Lilypad, the story "The Winter City" is set in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and is about snow, children, magpies, snow removal, snowflake fairies, and a husky puppy named Luna.

A retelling and rearrangement, by Marlene Wurfel, of the Excalibur legend. This story is more than 2000 years old and how much of it is folklore and how much of it is historical is unknown.