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Bertie on Holiday - Bertie Stories
Bertie on Holiday - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download Bertie on Holiday Prince Bertie has been on a secret mission to save the royal family and the honour of the lovely Princess Beatrice. In this special Bertie story, our hero is turned back into a prince - but don't worry - this is not the...
Bertie Writes A Book - Bertie Stories
Bertie Writes A Book - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
This audio story explains how Prince Bertie came to write the first installment of his autobiography (Prince Bertie the Frog). The book itself presents the text and beautiful full colour pictures to go with an earlier Bertie story which you can...
Bertie Valentine - Bertie Stories
Bertie Valentine - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
There is a terribly romantic mood on the pond where Prince Bertie the Frog lives. All the pond life are excited by Valentine's Day, but nobody is more excited than Bertie. All he has to do is to lure the lovely Princess Beatrice down to the pond,...
Agent Bertie - Bertie Stories
Agent Bertie - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
You will only hear this on Storynory because it's top secret. Natasha exclusively reveals that before Bertie was turned into a frog, he worked as a secret agent. He was sent by his father, the king, on a mission to a far away kingdom called Wales....
Colin: The Grumpy King - Bertie Stories
Colin: The Grumpy King - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Sometimes it seems that people the whole wide world over are divided into two sorts: fans of Prince Bertie the Frog, and fans of Colin the Grumpy Carp. Are you a Colin sort of person? Or a Bertie sort of person? Or does it depend on what sort of day...
Bertie’s Year of the Rat - Bertie Stories
Bertie’s Year of the Rat - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Years of the Rat: 1996,2008,2020,2032 this story. which explains how they got their names. We also have a video about the Aesop Fable - the Rat and the Elephant. Read by Natasha. Duration 8.30. The other day, Bertie asked me to pop up to the palace...
Colin’s Grumpy Christmas - Bertie Stories
Colin’s Grumpy Christmas - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Perhaps you know that Colin the Carp is an extremely grumpy fish. He is so grumpy that he doesn't even like Christmas. In fact, he says it's a total misery. And so when Tim the Tadpole asked Colin what he would like for Christmas he said, "I want to...
Three Short Bertie Stories - Bertie Stories
Three Short Bertie Stories - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
In these three short stories, Sadie the Swan takes The True Princess Test, the Pond Life are haunted by a Ghost Swan, and Bertie sees off Barker the Dog. We first published the stories, right at the beginning of Storynory in November 2005. They...
Bertie and the Ghost - Bertie Stories
Bertie and the Ghost - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Do you believe in ghosts? Of course you do. And so does Bertie, because he was once haunted by one. It was Halloween, and Bertie's annoying little brother dared him to sleep in the north tower of the palace - which everyone knows is haunted. But...
Bertie and the Lion - Bertie Stories
Bertie and the Lion - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
A touching and adventurous story about how Prince Bertie had a lion as a pet when he was still a boy prince. With a nod of acknowledgment to Christian the Lion (YouTube). More Bertie Stories... Read by Natasha. Proofread by Claire Deakin. Duration...
Bertie’s Double - Bertie Stories
Bertie’s Double - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
The lovely Princess Beatrice has stayed true to her long lost prince Bertie for many a long day. But there was a time when she was seen walking in the palace gardens with another prince! Still worse, the wicked queen was determined to hold a royal...
Bertie’s Car - Bertie Stories
Bertie’s Car - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
When Bertie was a prince, he won a prize for being the kingdom’s most courteous driver. The wicked queen thought that he looked ridiculous waiting at the lights in his ordinary car. She was more furious than ever that her daughter wanted to marry...
Sadie’s Broken Heart - Bertie Stories
Sadie’s Broken Heart - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Sadie is a beautiful black swan who lives on the pond with Prince Bertie the Frog. She finds a crown and puts it on her elegant head. Prince Boris sees her, and believes that she is a princess who has been turned into a swan - in the same way that...
Bertie and the Mermaid - Bertie Stories
Bertie and the Mermaid - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
She kissed him. Bertie went all red and she said "Te he he" Melrose came off his mount and was tumbling over and over and over through the water Now you know what Bertie looks like, Sophie Green has painted four pictures for this story. We would...
Bertie and the Boot Camp - Bertie Stories
Bertie and the Boot Camp - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Bertie, the guiding spirit of Storynory, is a frog who likes to tell stories about the time when he was a human prince. His adventures range far and wide, and this one is no exception. We learn how when Bertie was a teenage prince, the King was...
Bertie and the Merchant of Palmyra - Bertie Stories
Bertie and the Merchant of Palmyra - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Proofread by Claire Deakin. This is Natasha, and while I’ve been away doing a bit of globe trotting, I didn’t forget about my old friends. I sent Prince Bertie the Frog a postcard from Mount Everest, but unfortunately it didn’t arrive because the...
Tim The Tadpole’s Exams - Bertie Stories
Tim The Tadpole’s Exams - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Prince Bertie the Frog's friend, Tim the Tadpole, is extremely upset because a certain person on the pond has called him "stupid" for not doing well at school. No prizes for guessing that the name of that person is Colin the Carp. Read by Natasha....
Bertie and the Secret Potato - Bertie Stories
Bertie and the Secret Potato - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio (right click, save as) Happy 12 everyone ! We are starting 2012 with a Bertie story this week, and a Katie story next... and look out for the final chapters of the Wizard of Oz and a spectacular Greek Myth. Just in case you are...
Bertie’s Lost Christmas - Bertie Stories
Bertie’s Lost Christmas - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio, Right click, Save as Prince Bertie the Frog has always considered himself to be something of a comedian. His speciality is penguin jokes. He is delighted when he is asked to do a Christmas Eve performance of his stand-up comedy...
Bertie in Siberia - Bertie Stories
Bertie in Siberia - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Natasha and Richard team up to tell us an epic Bertie story that takes us all the way across Russia to Mongolia on the trans-Siberian train. Like the journey itself, this is a lovely long story, so find time sit back and listen to it... perhaps on a...
Bertie’s Quest - Bertie Stories
Bertie’s Quest - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
It is soon to be Princess Beatrice's birthday. What should Bertie give her? It us the same problem every year. The Wicked Queen tells Beatrice to send Bertie on an impossible quest, to find a living dinosaur. It is a quest that takes Bertie to...
Colin’s April Fool - Bertie Stories
Colin’s April Fool - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
In some countries, including France, there is a strong connection between fish and April Fool's jokes. It seems the same is true on the pond, where Colin the grumpy Carp, plays a big practical joke on everyone. Read by Natasha. Written by Bertie....
Bertie and the Queen’s Confession - Bertie Stories
Bertie and the Queen’s Confession - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Storynory listeners know that the Wicked Queen turned Bertie into a frog. But the secret is not yet out in the Big Wide World. There's a rumour that the Queen has recorded her confessions on a cassette tape. The tape has gone missing. The race is on...
Bertie’s Magic Pancakes - Bertie Stories
Bertie’s Magic Pancakes - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
As we hope you have realised, Bertie is Back as a Prince, and this is the first story since he returned to his human form. The Wicked Queen has been banished to the pond where she lives as a frog. But poor Bertie isn’t really feeling himself. His...
Prince Bertie Returns - Bertie Stories
Prince Bertie Returns - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Mystery,Suspense, Drama, Romance - join Natasha and Richard for The ROYAL STORY OF THE YEAR! What do you think will happen? Here's a clue. Doctor Who is not the only character who might regenerate this Christmas. Eight years ago, Prince Bertie...
Tim the Tadpole’s Birthday - Bertie Stories
Tim the Tadpole’s Birthday - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Before you say it - let us say it first: we've done this story before. And yes, it was from a time when Bertie was still a frog. We first recorded Tim the Tadpole's Birthday way back in 2006, but somehow the mp3 file was overwritten and lost. All...
Bertie in the Land that Time Forgot - Bertie Stories
Bertie in the Land that Time Forgot - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Could you live without your technology? What would you do without your digital games? Princess Beatrice thinks that Bertie spends far too much time lying on the couch and playing games on his tablet. Sounds familiar? She takes him on holiday to the...
Bertie and the Frog Princess - Bertie Stories
Bertie and the Frog Princess - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
What would it be like to be a frog? Have you ever wanted to be one just for a day? You haven’t? Well Princess Beatrice loves animals so much that she once wished for just that… and she soon regretted it. ………. ……… …….. ……. …… ….. …. … .. . Written by...
Astropup in Gone with the Wind - All Stories
Astropup in Gone with the Wind - All Stories
- Author: All Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Subscribe in Apple Podcasts Astropup in ‘Gone with the Wind’. Dedicated to the Alrashed kids. Read by Richard Scott Written by Bertie Sound editing and emissions by Jana Hello, Astropup here. In the previous episode of my adventures, the parrot and...
Bertie and Beatrice’s Dreams Part 2 - Bertie Stories
Bertie and Beatrice’s Dreams Part 2 - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
We continue the story of Bertie and Beatrice's Dreams - see Part one here. Beatrice has called off the wedding, left the palace, and gone to live in the town and look for a job. How will the ex-princess get on in the "real world"? Story written by...
Bertie and Beatrice’s Dreams - Bertie Stories
Bertie and Beatrice’s Dreams - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
These days, Prince Bertie is a human Prince who lives in the Palace. The Wicked Queen is now a frog who lives on the pond, but that does not stop her making trouble. She persuades a fairy to give some very contrasting dreams to Beatrice and Bertie,...
The Wicked Uncle By the Sea - Wicked Uncle
The Wicked Uncle By the Sea - Wicked Uncle
- Author: Wicked Uncle
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio to your computer (right click, save as) The first time we met Jeremy and Jemima’s wicked Uncle Jeff, we discovered that he was not so much “wicked” as “irresponsible.” Mum and Dad decided that it would be better if he did not look...
The Wicked Uncle - Wicked Uncle
The Wicked Uncle - Wicked Uncle
- Author: Wicked Uncle
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio to your computer (right click, save as.) Mum and Dad are going away for a romantic weekend, and “Wicked” Uncle Jeff is left in charge of the children. The children have homework to do, but Uncle Jeff thinks that is far too boring....
Bertie and the Magic Seal - Bertie Stories
Bertie and the Magic Seal - Bertie Stories
- Author: Bertie Stories
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Once upon a time, when we started Storynory back in 2005, our main character was called Bertie. He’s a royal prince, who was once turned into our frog. That’s why Storynory’s mascot is a little green frog wearing earphones. After a long time away on...
Christmas in Space - Wicked Uncle
Christmas in Space - Wicked Uncle
- Author: Wicked Uncle
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
This is our most ambitious story about the “Wicked Uncle” – Uncle Jeff. Of course he’s not really wicked, merely irresponsible, and somewhat annoying to Mum and Dad. But the kids love him. This story refers back to our summer story, “The Wicked...
The Luck of the Wicked Uncle - Wicked Uncle
The Luck of the Wicked Uncle - Wicked Uncle
- Author: Wicked Uncle
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a story about luck, or chance or fate. Some people believe that everything that happens is set in the stars at the dawn of time and some people believe everything happens chaotically and at random, and other people believe that we are...
How to Out-Jeff Uncle Jeff - Wicked Uncle
How to Out-Jeff Uncle Jeff - Wicked Uncle
- Author: Wicked Uncle
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
If you know Uncle Jeff, you will understand why the kids love him. He's outgoing and will do things that their parents would never dream of. But Mum and Dad think he's irresponsible. Mum hopes that Jessica, his new girlfriend, will calm him down....
Dad’s Half Century - Wicked Uncle
Dad’s Half Century - Wicked Uncle
- Author: Wicked Uncle
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
We do hear you! Bertie has noticed all the comments asking for another Wicked Uncle story. Uncle Jeff returns with an uncharacteristically generous and flamboyant style. Dad is going to be 50, and his younger brother is planning a wonderful party...
The Easter Fair - Wicked Uncle
The Easter Fair - Wicked Uncle
- Author: Wicked Uncle
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio (Click to Play, Right Click to Save As) The “Wicked Uncle” takes Jeremy and Jemima to an Easter Fair. What could possibly go wrong? Well almost anything. Of course Uncle Jeff is not really that wicked – but he is both fun and...
Writing Competition – Wicked Uncle - Wicked Uncle
Writing Competition – Wicked Uncle - Wicked Uncle
- Author: Wicked Uncle
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Storynory Summer 2016 Writing Competition Sponsored by Wicked Uncle, home of brilliant children’s presents. How would you like to write a Wicked Uncle story of your own and hear me Richard read it out here on Storynory? This Summer (or winter if you...
