The Leap Frog & A Little Match Girl
We depart from the norm with this duo from a favourite author: The Leap Frog (about an amphibian who enters a competition to win a princess'...
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Drift with Erin Davis
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...
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20 of 272 episodesThe Sea Fairies
From Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum comes this charming tale of an old sailor and his young female friend who find themselves leaping pas...
Adrift On a Lazy River
There can be no more perfect story as we can see the end of summer than this one! Join us on an idyllic summer day as six friends who've lov...
Charlotte's Ladies by Lucy Maud Montgomery
A true delight to share tonight, you'll meet orphan Charlotte whose path crosses with two women (and a “Very Handsome Cat”) who are bound to...
The White Cat
Three princes are tasked with finding the most obscure treasures for their father to inherit a kingdom. And there's a magical white cat who...
Little House In the Big Woods
This is the first in Laura Ingalls Wilder's series of Little House books, with which so many of us grew up. Tonight we embrace the wild wood...
Felicia and the Pot of Pink Carnations
Imagine a time of spells and fairies, of queens and peasant girls, talking animals and happily ever afters. This sums up the story of a poor...
A Fawn in the Woods
I was inspired to find this tale, written in 1881, by the many fawns and their mamas who walk through the woods near our Canadian island hom...
Cinderlad and the Princess on the Glass Hill
You've heard of Cinderella, of course, but this is the tale of a young man kept dirty and humble while his two older brothers go to compete...
A Vintage From Atlantis by Clark Ashton Smith
A pirate ship and its crew encounters a huge urn within the waves, and the narrator shares a sobering reminder that it's often best to leave...
The Child’s Story
This is a most tender tale of a man who, whilst walking through the woods, meets himself at various stages of his life. It's lovely, relatab...
The Man on the Train – by LM Montgomery
From PEI's Lucy Maud Montgomery – when a nervous grandmother embarks on her very first train ride, she meets a kindly stranger and both of t...
Prince Hyacinth
A baby is born to a king and his wife, who have had cast upon them a spell: their child will have an enormous nose. But Prince Hyacinth must...
The Goose Girl Princess
In this gentle tale by the Brothers Grimm, we meet a young woman sent to a faraway kingdom, where her royal identity is stolen and she ends...
The Queen Bee
The Queen Bee is a sweet story from the Brothers Grimm that is not grim at all! It's actually about the third of three brothers who is eithe...
Aladdin and His Magical Lamp
When a boy meets an “uncle” who happens to be a magician, he's introduced to a world of sorcery. Enjoy this age-old tale and dream of genies...
The Story Teller by Saki
Fall asleep to this tale of a man who manages to distract and entertain some listless children travelling by train with their exasperated au...
The Six Swans
Lesser known than many of their other tales, this is the Brothers Grimm story of six boys who are changed into birds, and whose younger sist...
The Cat That Walked By Himself
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 Girl Who Owned a Bear
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...