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From a collection of Just So by Rudyard Kipling stories, this is the tale of how the cat quite cleverly allowed humans to almost domesticate...
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For decades, Erin Davis helped radio listeners wake up and start their day as the host of a popular morning show. Now, her dream is to comfort listeners as they drift off to sleep. Drift is...

From a collection of Just So by Rudyard Kipling stories, this is the tale of how the cat quite cleverly allowed humans to almost domesticate...

The author L. Frank Baum is best known for The Wizard of Oz, but this story is also based on a little girl who finds herself in a rather pre...

In this tale, we imagine a girl who is cursed with a lack of gravity; she actually floats freely and constantly but finds her love and her l...

Some say this truly beautiful tale is actually a story that Hans Christian Andersen wrote about his love for an opera singer – a love that w...

When asked if he'd ever write his life story, Hans Christian Andersen said that this tale was it. With that in mind, I shaped this popular c...

In this personal story, I ask whose hand you would love to hold as you drift off tonight. Join me as I reminisce about intertwining fingers...

There's more than one version of the Cinderella story, and this one comes from Celtic folklore. In it, a young girl named Trembling is picke...

100 years ago, the famous writer HG Wells brought the world his ambitious overview of how we began. In this third and final section of his b...

A young boy's legendary rise from crushing poverty to London's highest office combines fact, folklore and a fearless feline heroine. It's a...

Join me for a sleep-worthy rendering of the famed writer's take on the history of humans, and our emergence from caves. One century ago, and...

From well-loved Edith Nesbit's collection of Dragon Tales, this is a delightful story of love, envy, virtue and triumph over evil. Princess...

This classic tale of a special toy and the trials he faces proves again why the stories of Hans Christian Andersen will always stand the tes...

An adventurous young woman finds herself sleepy after a lovely meal but awakens to three furry creatures who are sa surprised to meet her as...

Published in 1922, the writer HG Wells took on the immense subject of our planet and as much as scientists and historians knew (thanks to ar...

This campfire tale is about a tiny plant that can bring great and positive change to a kingdom, but who will find it – and how? It's a lovel...

Joseph Jacobs translated fairy tales from many different cultures and this story that originated in India is about a witch, disguised as a m...

Join me for this famous poem by British-born Canadian writer Robert Service. Set in the Yukon, it is a fascinating tale, but did you know th...

Join me as we take you to the forest for the final days of a stately, majestic and aged tree. This exquisite Hans Christian Andersen tale se...

Whether you await the arrival of Père Noel, Sinterklaas or good ol' Santa, this timeless classic is a story that resonates and stirs the hea...

Effie is a ten-year-old girl who has everything a child could want - except the spirit of Christmas in her heart. After she reads a Dickens...

Over 100 years ago, an eight-year-old girl wrote to the editor of a New York City newspaper with a question: Is Santa Claus real? This is th...

This lovely story is about a little girl who helps an elf. He turns around and helps her become invisible, but is it a gift or a curse? She...

Long have the Wise Men been believed to have started the idea of giving presents at Christmas. But this couple's mix up could very well have...

Join us for this story, as Charles Dickens looks back at holidays past, and sees angels in the present – and among the presents – at Christm...

Join me for this beautiful story set around Christmastime in the forests of Germany where a little girl who lives with her grandmother holds...

In this retelling of a Hans Christian Andersen fable, a tree yearns for everything it does not have, until he gets it and realizes he should...

Set as far under the sea as this story by Hans Christian Andersen is from the animated versions, this telling of the original fish-out-of-wa...

In this story written just for Drift, it would appear that love grows on trees for a humble farmer, when locals come to hear the song of an...

With so much of Canada in the throes of baseball fever, it seems only right that we share this, the most famous of all poems about the sport...

This heart-warming fiction (or is it?), Man May Love was chosen from among 30,000 short story entries to a war-time LIFE magazine contest. W...

A classic tale told on stage and film, this story by Lewis Carroll takes a young girl on a gently-told but most interesting ride down, down,...

A Grimm Fairy Tale proves it: at the end of the day, don't let seeds show the way. And be nice - you never know how it could pay off. Listen...

A social climber learns that not even the sky's the limit in the retelling of this young has-bean. *No ogres are harmed in the telling, but...

From Anna Sewell's well-loved book, these first three chapters offer the perspective of a handsome young horse learning of life and love at...

A young princess loses her talisman but finds the amphibian of her dreams. A spell-binding tale of looking past first impressions to find fr...

When we left Benjamin, the middle-aged man was run out of Yale University on a rail (literally). In this F. Scott Fitzgerald story's adventu...

A classic short story from F. Scott Fitzgerald, this tale imagines age reversal with life beginning as an elderly person and ending as an in...

TS Arthur wrote this beautiful story, reshaped especially for you here, of a hard-working couple who opened their house to a recently-orphan...

Set in the idyllic South of France, this original gentle story story puts you in the comfy shoes of a travel blogger witnessing the beauty a...

This Ukrainian folk tale is one of many told about a man deemed unintelligent who actually turns things around to his benefit. Ivan the Fool...

How wonderful to discover another tale from the wonderful, wizard-like mind of Oz author L. Frank Baum. What happens when a group of people...

A young girl grows up hearing ages-old legends of a magical talisman that no one has been able to use for its abilities. Asha decides it wil...

In this retelling of a Grimm classic, a young woman is shunned for her beauty and finds help from seven new friends, while a jealous queen p...

If it's very warm where you are, you may find some comfort in this magical tale of Northern Lights, a very clever brother and sister duo and...

From the man often called the Father of the Fairy Tale, this little-known story written by Charles Perrault is about a hard-done-by young wo...

How many times have we heard this tale? Well, not enough! For this story of a young girl, ill-treated by her family but beloved by not just...

What an unexpected delight to come across a new-to-us story from such a brilliant writer! The man who brought us The Wizard of Oz tells a ta...

If you drifted off before the end of Part One of this story by Jonathan Swift, not to worry: I'll recap where we are when we pick up on the...

What happens when a full-sized man who is cast adrift lands on an island full of tiny, often warring people? In this Jonathan Swift tale, we...

Inspired by a trip along the coast of Vancouver Island, this is the tale of a boy who finds a mollusk that turns into something quite incred...