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The Snow Queen Part 3 - Hans Christian Andersen
The Snow Queen Part 3 - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the Audio MP3 We left little Gerda at the mercy of the Robber Queen who had drawn her dagger and was about to kill her. But this is only the start of the third and final part of this magical story by Hans Christian Andersen - so presumably...
The Emperor’s New Clothes - Hans Christian Andersen
The Emperor’s New Clothes - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio of the Emperor's New Clothes (right click, save as) The Emperor is enormously vain and likes nothing better than to show off his clothes. Two weavers comes to his court saying that they makes clothes that are like no others -...
The Ugly Duckling - Hans Christian Andersen
The Ugly Duckling - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
This is the classic story of somebody who is a "bit different". We probably all know somebody at school is isn't quite accepted by the class. That is exactly what the "Ugly Duckling" in this story has to live with. The duckling her isn't cute and...
The Shepherdess and the Sweep - Hans Christian Andersen
The Shepherdess and the Sweep - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio This charming story by Hans Christian Andersen is about two ornaments who fall in love and decide to run away to the Big Wide World. If you have heard the Steadfast Tin Soldier you will understand how objects can have feelings and...
The Little Mermaid Part Two - Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Mermaid Part Two - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio to your computer (right click, save as) In the second part of this classic tale by Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid saves a young prince from drowning - but he never has a chance to see that he owes his life to her. The...
The Little Mermaid Part One - Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Mermaid Part One - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio (right click link, save as) This is a truly moving and beautiful story. You will be transported to the magical underworld gardens of the mermaids. This famous tale is every bit as lovely as Hans Christian Andersen's other...
Thumbelina - Hans Christian Andersen
Thumbelina - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio to your computer) right click, save as The story of a tiny, tiny little girl, and her journey through nature. Hans Christian Andersen wrote this delicate story in 1835. Like many of his tales, it's about the courage and survival...
The Little Mermaid Part Three - Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Mermaid Part Three - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio to your computer (right click, save as) The final part of the Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen. The Sea Witch helps The Little Mermaid become human so that she can visit her prince - but she extracts a terrible price. The...
The Wicked Prince - Hans Christian Andersen
The Wicked Prince - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio A prince becomes all powerful, but still his priests fear God more than they do him. There is only one being left for the prince to conquer - God himself. And so he declares war on God. Hans Christian Andersen's moral and dramatic...
The Nightingale - Hans Christian Andersen
The Nightingale - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio to your computer (right click, save as) This story by Hans Christian Andersen is about one of the most beautiful sounds in the world - the voice of nightingale. But some people who ought to know better prefer the music of a...
Aladdin’s Lamp - 1001 nights
Aladdin’s Lamp - 1001 nights
- Author: 1001 nights
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Original Pictures for Storynory by Nick Hayes. It’s packed with oriental mystique – not one, but two genies, wicked magicians, gold and jewels galore, a palace that is transported through thin air, a beautiful princess, and a poor boy who gets very...
The Leap Frog - Hans Christian Andersen
The Leap Frog - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio (Click to Play, Right Click to Save As) This miniature fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen is so short that it's almost an anecdote, but although it's small, it's perfect in its own way. Three animals have pretentions to jump...
1001 Nights - 1001 nights
1001 Nights - 1001 nights
- Author: 1001 nights
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
The world’s most famous collection of magical stories originated in Persia and only later became known in the West as the “Arabian” Nights. The collection includes stories, within stories, within stories. This is the story that wraps around them...
The Blind Beggar of Baghdad - 1001 nights
The Blind Beggar of Baghdad - 1001 nights
- Author: 1001 nights
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio to your computer (right click, save as) This story from 1001 Nights tells of hidden treasure and magical powers. It will remind you a little of Aladdin or Ali Baba, but it’s more serious. The Blind Beggar of Baghdad is a warning...
The Bull and the Donkey - 1001 nights
The Bull and the Donkey - 1001 nights
- Author: 1001 nights
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio Click to Play, Right Click to Save As Scheherazade is married to the Sultan. All his many previous brides have been beheaded the morning after their wedding. Her plan to stay alive is to keep the terrible tyrant amused with...
The Fox and the Wolf - 1001 nights
The Fox and the Wolf - 1001 nights
- Author: 1001 nights
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
“Trust is the glue of friendship.” When friends do not trust each other, they both fall into trouble. The fox and the wolf live together, but the wolf is a bully, and secretly the fox hates him. They both find themselves at the bottom of a trap set...
The Flying Horse Part 2 - 1001 nights
The Flying Horse Part 2 - 1001 nights
- Author: 1001 nights
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
We continue the adventure of the flying horse (part 1 was here). If you have heard the first part, you will know that an inventor has presented the king of Persia with an enchanted horse that can fly. His son, the prince has indeed flown away on it...
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - 1001 nights
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - 1001 nights
- Author: 1001 nights
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
From 1001 Arabian Nights Download Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves In a town in Persia there lived two brothers, one named Cassim, the other Ali Baba. Cassim was married to a rich wife and lived in luxury, while Ali Baba had to maintain his wife and...
The Second Voyage of Sinbad - 1001 nights
The Second Voyage of Sinbad - 1001 nights
- Author: 1001 nights
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Hello, This is Elizabeth and I am here with the second voyage of Sinbad from the 1001 nights. In the first episode a wealthy merchant called Sinbad invited a humble porter into his mansion. By coincidence the poor man has the same name as the...
The First Voyage of Sinbad - 1001 nights
The First Voyage of Sinbad - 1001 nights
- Author: 1001 nights
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
A poor man of Baghdad rests by the gates of a fabulously wealthy merchant. He is invited in by the owner and discovers that they share the same name – Sinbad. The wealthy Sinbad relates how he made his fortune in seven adventures at sea. Adapted by...
The Fourth Voyage of Sinbad - 1001 nights
The Fourth Voyage of Sinbad - 1001 nights
- Author: 1001 nights
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
The story is rather dark and scary in parts. We have toned it down quite a bit from the original, but it’s still not a tale for more sensitive listeners. It’s the central story of the Seven Voyages of Sinbad. It’s the most profound, and the one that...
The Third Voyage of Sinbad - 1001 nights
The Third Voyage of Sinbad - 1001 nights
- Author: 1001 nights
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
The Sinbad stories are part of the 1001 Nights, a series of amazing and magical tales which were told by the princess of storytellers, Scheherazade to her husband the Sultan. But there are many stories within stories, and in this case, she is...
The Sixth Voyage of Sinbad - 1001 nights
The Sixth Voyage of Sinbad - 1001 nights
- Author: 1001 nights
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Adapted by Bertie. Read by Elizabeth. Proofread by Jana Elizabeth. Hello this is Elizabeth, and I am here to continue the story of the merchant Sinbad and his voyages. The next morning, Sinbad the Porter prayed the dawn-prayer before setting off...
The Fifth Voyage of Sinbad - 1001 nights
The Fifth Voyage of Sinbad - 1001 nights
- Author: 1001 nights
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Adapted by Bertie. Read by Elizabeth. Proofread & Edited by Jana Elizabeth. Picture by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900–1931) You may say that I am prone to make the same mistake over and over again. I return from a trip, happy just to be alive...
The Sleeping Beauty Part Two - Perrault
The Sleeping Beauty Part Two - Perrault
- Author: Perrault
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download The Audio Here The Queen Mother was of the race of the ogres, and the king would never have married her had it not been for her vast riches; it was even whispered about the court that she had ogreish inclinations, and that, whenever she saw...
The Sleeping Beauty - Perrault
The Sleeping Beauty - Perrault
- Author: Perrault
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
From The Blue Fairy Book of Andrew Lang Download the audio fairy tale here. This is one of the most romantic fairy tales. It's themes are love and chivalry. The ending is, of course, happy, but not quite ever after. There is a little known second...
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad - All Stories
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad - All Stories
- Author: All Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Adapted by Bertie. Read by Elizabeth. Proofread by Jana Elizabeth. Hello, this is Elizabeth, and I'm here with the final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor. After my return from my sixth voyage, which brought me a fine profit, I returned to my old life of...
Beauty and the Beast - Perrault
Beauty and the Beast - Perrault
- Author: Perrault
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio of Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast by Charles Perrault is one of the BIG fairy tales and it's long been a favourite on Storynory. We've re-recorded it with music, sound effects, and an edited text. The acoustic guitar...
Puss in Boots - Perrault
Puss in Boots - Perrault
- Author: Perrault
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the Audio MP3 of Puss in Boots Puss in Boots has found renewed fame through his starring role in Shrek, but for many centuries he has been well known as one of the most cunning cats in all fairy tale literature. Like all cats though, he is...
Cinderella - Perrault
Cinderella - Perrault
- Author: Perrault
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Illustrated for Storynory by Sophie Green. Read by Natasha. Duration 17.36 Minutes. English text by Andrew Lang. Proofread by Claire Deakin & Jana Elizabeth. ONCE there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most...
The Elephant’s Child - Rudyard Kipling
The Elephant’s Child - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
From the Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling Download the audio story here. The young elephant hero is full of questions. Why is his tall uncle the giraffe so spotty? Why are the eyes of his broad aunt the hippopotamus so red? Above all, he wants to...
The Cat’s Elopement - Japanese-stories
The Cat’s Elopement - Japanese-stories
- Author: Japanese-stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
This Japanese story is a hidden gem from The Pink Fairy Book of Andrew Lang (1901). The tale came to Lang via a German collection of stories. It is not only terribly romantic, but contains some exciting fights between cat and dog, and cat and...
Rikki-tikki-tavi Part Two - Rudyard Kipling
Rikki-tikki-tavi Part Two - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download Rikki-tikki-tavi Part Two We left our courageous little hero at a very dangerous moment at the end of the First Part of Rikki-tikki-tavi. We conclude Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of the Indian Mongoose who defends an English family from...
Rikki-tikki-tavi Part One - Rudyard Kipling
Rikki-tikki-tavi Part One - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download Rikki-tikki-tavi This exciting and touching story is from the fabulous Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. It's not one of his more famous Mowgli tales, but is all about a brave mongoose. A mongoose is an animal that looks a little bit like a...
Kissa the Cat - World Fairytales
Kissa the Cat - World Fairytales
- Author: World Fairytales
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
From The Brown Fairy Book of Andrew Lang Kissa the Cat This charming story about a princess who is rescued by a magical cat originally came from Denmark – but as it happens, “kissa” is Russian for pussycat. Look out for the scary giant. We’ve...
Jack and the Pirate School Part 1 - Jack And The Pirate School
Jack and the Pirate School Part 1 - Jack And The Pirate School
- Author: Jack And The Pirate School
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the mp3 audio Download the audio mp3 of Jack and the Pirate School (1) (right click, save as) Have you got your cutlasses ready? And fed the parrot? Do you want to hear a story about pirates? Pirates are all the rage, and we get loads of...
The Billy Goats Gruff - All Stories
The Billy Goats Gruff - All Stories
- Author: All Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
This story from Norway is short but exciting – and ideal for small children (although it’s abit scary!). Three billy goats, each with the same name (Gruff), are on the way up the hillside to eat grass and get fat. On the way they have to cross a...
The Brahman, the Tiger and the Jackal - All Stories
The Brahman, the Tiger and the Jackal - All Stories
- Author: All Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio of the tiger story This tale from India is about a good-hearted Brahman - or holy man - who helps a tiger out of a trap. The tiger then turns on him and threatens to eat him. The Brahman struggles to find any one - or any thing -...
Astropup Part Two - Astropup
Astropup Part Two - Astropup
- Author: Astropup
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
The Planet of the Cats. The second and concluding part of our venture into outer space (see part one here). To recap – Bonzo the dog – better known as Astropup – was an ordinary pet dog belonging to Jenny. When his family moved to Kuwait, Pa gave...
Astropup Part One - Astropup
Astropup Part One - Astropup
- Author: Astropup
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the MP3 Audio of Astropup (right click, save as) Storynory journeys into outer-space. This out-of-the way travelogue is told in two parts by Bonzo the dog, otherwise known to the world as Astropup. (Both parts collected here). Bonzo is an...
