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. 

The Nightingale

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. 
 

Evergreen: Affirmations for a New Year

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? 

The Forest Bride a Finnish Fairy Tale

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

Peter Squirrel

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.

The Little People: A Fairy Tale by a Real Queen

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
 

Legend of the Wooden Shoe

Peace, love & joy from Lily to you!
Music by DJ Williams courtesy YouTube Audio Library

Merry Christmas from Lily

This poem is inspired by the land and literature of Yukon, Canada
 

Six Husky Puppies

“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
 

The Orange Shirt Story featuring Phyllis Webstad

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/

Thor and the Storm Fairies

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

The Moosicorn Part III

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 

Update from Lily

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 &gt; 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 :)

The Dream Train

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. 

Joy the Christmas Mouse

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

Three Witchy Ghosty Fairy Stories for Halloween 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. 

The Forest Library feat. Lexi the Squirrel Librarian

A blend of storytelling, ambient music and meditation celebrating the changing of seasons and the starry night sky. Ochek the Fisher from Cree star lore, Orion's dogs Canis Major & Canis Minor from Roman antiquity, the Blackfoot story of Lost Children in the stars, Lyra the Harp and Cetus the Whale reinvented plus Inuit, Indian, Ukrainian & Chinese mythologies combined in this episode with love to and from the stars and everyone who has gazed up at them and told a story.
Orca sounds from www.orcaresearch.org
 

Star Lore

Ranchland gnomes Tumbles and Hilda, and their twins River and Kit, help gophers afraid of a rattlesnake. 

Ranchland Gnomes

The classic folk tale Stone Soup is about soldiers traveling home after a war. The villagers they meet are afraid of strangers and have forgotten how to be neighbors. Stoen Soup, like all great folktales, has a perennial and new relevance for 2021.
This version is especially for Tales from the Lilypad by Marlene Wurfel.

Stone Soup

In this episode, Lily answers questions from listeners including the number 1 question:
Are you really a frog? 
& Where can I find older episodes? Answer: www.talesfromthelilypad.com
Kids can email letters & pictures to: talesfromthelilypad@gmail.com
Or, message through Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/talesfromthelilypad
Music for this episode: Camping by Matti Paalanen
Sound effects courtesy Creative Commons Licences via www.freesound.org
 
 

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