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Happy Birthday Storynory - Feedback
Happy Birthday Storynory - Feedback
- Author: Feedback
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the MP3 audio (right click link, save as) Storynory was three years old towards the end of 2008. As anyone who has been three years old knows, it's a very special age to be. We asked you to tell us what your favourite stories are and why,...
Fidgety Philip - Poems
Fidgety Philip - Poems
- Author: Poems
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio Fidgety Philip is another horrid creature from the poem Shock-Headed Peter by Heinrich Hoffmann. He's not quite so terrifying as Dreadful Harriet, but he's certainly a bit of a brat. Hoffmann's children are made from the same...
The Fox and the Wolf – a Basque Folktale - All Stories
The Fox and the Wolf – a Basque Folktale - All Stories
- Author: All Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
This story about a fox and a wolf, might be better called "The vixen and the wolf" because the fox is very feminine, while the wolf is definitely a he-wolf. Both are very hungry, and the wolf is set on eating the fox. This story by Antonio de Trueba...
The Missing Bunny - Zoo Stories
The Missing Bunny - Zoo Stories
- Author: Zoo Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio to your computer (right click, save as) Original picture for Storynory by Tania Fernandes . Click to enlarge. This is another slightly crazy chocolate story and is the companion to “The Monkey Who Loved Chocolate.” It continues...
The Three Dogs - World Fairytales
The Three Dogs - World Fairytales
- Author: World Fairytales
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Read by Richard Adapted by Bertie from a traditional German tale. Edited by Jana Elizabeth. Barking by Minnie the Cockapoo Princess sobs by Jana Dragon hisses by Bertie This is the story of a shepherd who found himself in jail even though he had...
How the Tiger Got his Stripes - Chinese Stories
How the Tiger Got his Stripes - Chinese Stories
- Author: Chinese Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Years of the Tiger: 1986, 1998, 2010,2022 Chinese Calendar Stories We celebrate the Year of the Tiger with a legend of how the tiger got his stripes. Anyone born in the year of the tiger will be lucky and brave (according to horoscopes). You might...
Astropup and the Teletransporter Part 2 - Astropup
Astropup and the Teletransporter Part 2 - Astropup
- Author: Astropup
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Astropup and the Teletransporter Part Two Read by Richard. Proofed & audio edited by Jana. Story by Bertie. When we had finished howling I said: “Alright, can we have lunch now?” and the Professor laughed and agreed: “It will be a good...
Gilgamesh Part 2 – Humbaba the Dragon - All Stories
Gilgamesh Part 2 – Humbaba the Dragon - All Stories
- Author: All Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Read by Richard. Ninsun by Jana. Proofed and audio edited by Jana. Adapted and illustrated by Bertie. Hello, this is Richard, and this is the second part of our epic story from ancient Mesopotamia. It’s hero is a king called Gilgamesh, and he has...
The Commune of Cats - All Stories
The Commune of Cats - All Stories
- Author: All Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Illustration: Funny cats family By Kudryashka/Adobe Stock The Commune of Cats. Read by Richard. Lizzie & Maddy by Jana. Proofed & audio edited by Jana. Adapted by Bertie. Long ago, when cats could still talk like human beings, a commune of...
A Christmas Carol Part One - Dickens
A Christmas Carol Part One - Dickens
- Author: Dickens
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
In three parts: A Christmas Carol Part two A Christmas Carol Part Three We present a Storynory Pantomime - A dramatic audio presentation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens adapted by Mike Betteridge of The Working Space Theatre Company....
How the Monkey Tricked the Tiger - Brazil
How the Monkey Tricked the Tiger - Brazil
- Author: Brazil
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Who does not love a cheeky monkey story? Maybe our younger listeners will appreciate this most - but everyone should find it fun. Listen out for our Monkey song based on Eenee, Meenee, Mainee, Mo! How the Monkey Tricked the Tiger Dedicated to Jimmy...
Alice, Chapter 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole - Alice in Wonderland
Alice, Chapter 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole - Alice in Wonderland
- Author: Alice in Wonderland
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Read by Natasha for Storynory CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no...
A Christmas Carol Part Three - Dickens
A Christmas Carol Part Three - Dickens
- Author: Dickens
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
A pantomime in three parts. See earlier parts: A Christmas Carol 1 A Christmas Carol 2 A Merry Christmas Bob! - said Scrooge - A Merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I will raise your salary, and endeavour...
A Christmas Carol Part Two - Dickens
A Christmas Carol Part Two - Dickens
- Author: Dickens
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
It was a strange figure - like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man. The voice was soft and gentle. I am the ghost of Christmas Past. Long past? - inquired Scrooge. No. Your past. Scrooge made so bold to inquire what business brought...
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 3 - Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 3 - Alice in Wonderland
- Author: Alice in Wonderland
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download Alice Chapter 3 A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The third chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (we are collecting them all here) introduces us to the Dodo bird who is far from dead, but is enormously pompous. As usual, there are...
Alice, Chapter 2: The Pool of Tears - Alice in Wonderland
Alice, Chapter 2: The Pool of Tears - Alice in Wonderland
- Author: Alice in Wonderland
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Alice continues her out-of-the way experience as she stretches like a telescope, and then almost shrinks away altogether. She has a wonderful conversation with her feet, she fears that she might have become Mabel, and she dreadfully offends a mouse....
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 4 - Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 4 - Alice in Wonderland
- Author: Alice in Wonderland
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Alice is rather put out when the White Rabbit mistakes her for his housemaid. Once more she is tempted by some marvellous medicine. Soon she finds herself besieged by small animals, one of whom goes by the name of Bill. Read by Natasha. Duration 20...
Alice In Wonderland Chapter 7 - Alice in Wonderland
Alice In Wonderland Chapter 7 - Alice in Wonderland
- Author: Alice in Wonderland
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download Alice Chapter 7 The Mad Hatter's Tea Party - one of the most famous of all chapters in children's literature - is here presented in all its wonderful lunacy. A mad March Hare, an even madder Hatter, and a dozy dormouse provide company for...
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 6 - Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 6 - Alice in Wonderland
- Author: Alice in Wonderland
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download Alice Chapter 6 Pig and Pepper. This chapter is even madder than the previous ones - and it's one of our favourites. This is where we meet the Duchess, roughly handling a baby who looks like a pig, and the Cheshire cat who likes to vanish...
Alice In Wonderland Chapter 5 - Alice in Wonderland
Alice In Wonderland Chapter 5 - Alice in Wonderland
- Author: Alice in Wonderland
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download Alice Chapter 5 Advice from a Caterpillar. Our shrunken heroine meets a languid caterpillar who infuriates her with his curt contradictions. Next she is accused by a pigeon of being a serpent, and Alice is forced to admit that she does eat...
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 9 - Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 9 - Alice in Wonderland
- Author: Alice in Wonderland
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the MP3 Audio of Alice 9 (Right Click, Save Link as) The Mock Turtle's Story Alice, still holding a flamingo under her arm, returns to the Duchess and is irritated by her sharp chin and her constant refrain, 'And the moral of that is...'....
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 8 - Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 8 - Alice in Wonderland
- Author: Alice in Wonderland
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio of Alice 8 (help) The Queen's Croquet-Ground. There are so many famous lines from Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland, that it is hard to say which is the most famous, but "Off with their heads" must be a contender. Alice reaches...
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 11 - Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 11 - Alice in Wonderland
- Author: Alice in Wonderland
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the MP3 Audio of Alice Chapter 11 Who Stole the Tarts? We reach the last but one chapter of the first Alice book. The trial begins of the Knave of Hearts on the charge of stealing the tarts. Many familiar faces are present in the court...
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 10 - Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland Chapter 10 - Alice in Wonderland
- Author: Alice in Wonderland
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the mp3 audio of Alice 10 (right click, save as) The Lobster Quadrille According to the Wikipedia, a quadrille is " a historic dance performed by four couples in a square formation." In this story it is performed by the Mock Turtle and The...
St. David of Wales - Saints
St. David of Wales - Saints
- Author: Saints
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
St. David is the patron Saint of Wales and his day falls on March 1st, when Welsh people celebrate by wearing leeks and daffodils - two of the symbols of Wales. The Welsh dragon is another symbol. David was born in Wales around the year 500 and...
Through the Looking-Glass 1 - Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass 1 - Alice in Wonderland
- Author: Alice in Wonderland
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Looking-Glass House. Alice's out of the way adventures start again in the second Alice book by Lewis Carroll, published in 1871. This time she meets characters from a game of chess - as opposed to the pack of cards in the first book. There are more...
Alice In Wonderland Chapter 12 - Alice in Wonderland
Alice In Wonderland Chapter 12 - Alice in Wonderland
- Author: Alice in Wonderland
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the MP3 Audio (right click, save as) We reach the final Chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - but don't worry - there are more adventures to come "Through The Looking Glass". Justice is not exactly done in this Wonderland trial - in...
Through the Looking Glass 3 - All Stories
Through the Looking Glass 3 - All Stories
- Author: All Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio (Click to Play, Right Click to Save As) Alice meets some very unusual insects and suddenly finds herself on a strange train journey without a ticket. If you have wondered about what a bread and butter fly looks like, or what a...
Through the Looking-Glass 2 - Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass 2 - Alice in Wonderland
- Author: Alice in Wonderland
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio (Click to the Play, Right Click to Save As) The Garden of Live Flowers (Natasha has written a special Review of this Story which you can read here) Alice talks to some flowers who think that she is stupid. She then talks to the...
The Selfish Giant - Oscar Wilde
The Selfish Giant - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio to your computer, Right Click, Save As. This classic story by Oscar Wilde is set in a garden that is not unlike paradise. Children play freely among the trees and flowers. And then the owner, The Selfish Giant, returns from a long...
The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Original Pictures for Storynory by Henrietta MacPhee Read by Natasha Oscar Wilde's story of a statue and a swallow is both beautiful and sad. We feel it captures much of the spirit of Easter (our reasons for thinking this are explained here). The...
The White Seal Part One - Rudyard Kipling
The White Seal Part One - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio (Right Click, Save As) You can't beat a story that has an animal hero who is both intelligent and courageous. The White Seal is an absolute classic of that genre. Kipling's tale has a very modern theme - it highlights the way in...
The Cat that Walked by Himself - Rudyard Kipling
The Cat that Walked by Himself - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Most domestic or farm animals have to earn their place by the fire. Kipling's short story (from the Just So Stories) tells us why cats can drink milk from a bowl AND live a semi-wild life by themselves. It takes us back to the time when people lived...
How The Whale Got His Throat - Rudyard Kipling
How The Whale Got His Throat - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio, (Right Click, Save As) This is one of the wonderful Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. It explains why a huge mammal - the whale - can only eat the smallest things. The story is full of Kipling's love of words and sounds, and...
How the Camel got his Hump - Rudyard Kipling
How the Camel got his Hump - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Kipling’s ‘Just So story from when the world was very new tells how the grumpy, idle camel turned his ‘humph’ into a ‘hump.’ The moral of the story is that not having enough to do makes people (and animals) grumpy. As we mention in the introduction,...
The White Seal Part Two - Rudyard Kipling
The White Seal Part Two - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
We conclude the story of The White Seal from the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (Part One is here). The White Seal has gone in search of the Sea Cow who can tell him of a special place where no humans visit. It is only in such a sanctuary that the...
The Crab that Played with the Sea - Rudyard Kipling
The Crab that Played with the Sea - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Why does the tide come in and out? Scientists might tell you it has something to do with the laws of gravity and the orbit of the moon. Of course it is true that there is a Fisher of the Moon who pulls in and lets out tide. But at the very...
How the Leopard Got His Spots - Rudyard Kipling
How the Leopard Got His Spots - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
The Just So Stories by Kipling (who also wrote the Jungle Book) tell us so many interesting things - and in this story we learn how the Leopard got his spots - and why a Leopard can never change his spots. (We have slightly adapted the story at the...
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin - Rudyard Kipling
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
There are so many questions that Kipling answered for us, and this is one of the most interesting - how rhinoceroses became so wrinkly and so bad tempered. Read by Richard Scott. HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKIN Hello, This is Richard, and I’m here...
The Jungle Book – Part 1 - Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book – Part 1 - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Mowgli boy in jungles with different plants and lianas, watercolor paintings By Rudyard Kipling Hello, This is Richard, and I’m going to be reading from the famous Mowgli chapters from the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. They tell the tale of a...
