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Hey folks!  We hope you are enjoy the summer break, wherever you are. In this favourite episode, we venture into the Amazonian rainforest to hear a story from the Anambe people. You can find a version of today's tale, 'Ceuci the Witch who ate a lot' in this book: Amazonia - Indigenous Tales from Brazil If you would like to watch Emily tell this story, you can do so HERE . Remember to j...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. While Emily is recovering, we have chosen one of our favourite episodes for you - with TWO stories. The first one is a fable by Aesop, brilliantly told by Leo! If you like this short fable, you can read more of them in this book - Orchard Aesop's Fables . And the second one is The Bremen Town Musi...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This is one of our FAVOURITE episodes - Odysseus and the Cyclops from Season 1. It is THOUSANDS of years old. It’s a very long epic and we only had time to tell a part of it. If you liked the story and want to follow Odysseus on the rest of his journey, we’d recommend this version by Daniel Morden and...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. We're nearly at the end of Season 3 and we are so grateful that you are still here listening with us! This week, we have the return of guest teller Sharon Carr, from our second season. She tells a tale of King who wants far too much. THE MOON!! If you'd like to learn more about Sharon's st...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This is one of our FAVOURITE episodes - The Faerie Thorn. It is a tale from Northern Ireland about the mystical and magical Faerie Thorn tree. I first heard the wonderful Liz Weir MBE tell a version of this at the Glens of Antrim Story Festival. Here is an extract from Jane Talbot’s wonderfully dark c...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This episode, we celebrate Leo's end of his first EVER exams. And he has chosen to tell a brilliant Anansi story. Our listeners know Anansi well, as a naughty trickster from the ancient tales of West Africa. The tales travelled across the ocean to the Caribbean and on then throughout the whole wor...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This episode, we welcome our guest teller Maria Gillen, from County Cork in Ireland. Maria is a great friend and a fabulous teller of tales. She loves stories of magic, healing and old wisdom and has told to big crowds and small. Maria is also the storyteller in residence at the Kerry Writer's Mus...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This episode, we learn about Leo's top five Inventors and Discoverers. Here they are! Click on their names to learn more! 5. Marie Curie 4. Patricia Bath 3. Ada Lovelace 2. Nikola Tesla 1. Leonardo Da Vinci If you would like to tell a tale on the podcast, have a practise at telling a 5minute folkt...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This episode, we are celebrating the Spring and Easter. There are many wonderful celebrations happening around the world at this time of year. You can find out about them HERE . Leo shares a lovely story about peace and friendship. You can read the original in Margaret Read Macdonald's wonderful b...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This week, we don't have a guest teller and we really need you!  If you would like to tell a tale on the podcast, have a practise at telling a 5minute folktale. Then you can record it for us (an iPhone works great if you place it on a flat surface and keep one hands width away from the microphone)...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This week's guest teller is Camden, who is 11, from Denver Colorado in the USA. Listen to this brilliant version of Goldilocks and the three Bears. If you would like to tell a tale on the podcast, have a practise at telling a 5minute folktale. Then you can record it for us (an iPhone works great i...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. Thank you so much for being patient with us this week - we had some naughty gremlins at work and had to re-do the recording . Gah!! However, we are so happy with this episode, as it features the lovely Kaila from California, who shares her tale of How the Sea became Salty. She is just BRILLIANT! If yo...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. We are really looking forward to welcoming some new YOUNG guest tellers to the podcast. If you would like to tell a tale on the podcast, have a practise at telling a 5minute folktale. Then you can record it for us (an iPhone works great if you place it on a flat surface and keep one hands width away f...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. Next here in the UK is National Storytelling Week! If you want to join in the story fun, you can visit the Society for Storytelling Website – they have lots of fun story activities for you.  You can also support their brilliant work by donating to their crowd funder and keep the art of oral storytelli...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. Happy New Year to all our wonderful listeners! We hope that 2022 is a great year for you. We have two lovely stories for you and in this episode we welcome back guest storyteller Rachel Ann Harding. She is a traditional storyteller and musician, passionate about myth, and traditional tales. In 2018 sh...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. It's the Holidays and it's Christmas Eve tomorrow! Hurray! We hope you enjoy this special episode to celebrate this special time of year. Our first story is from Leo, who brings us the long awaited return of CINDERELLA: Assassination Santa - The Revenge of the Elves. Leo really really enjoyed...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. It's December! The Christmas trees are up and it's cold outside. We hope you're looking forward to the holidays. Our first story comes from guest teller Belinda McKenna Bicknell , also known as the Steampunk Storyteller! Belinda spends her life in story land with people of all ages, sharin...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This episode is brought to you from County Antrim in Northern Ireland.  We stayed at the wonderful Ballyeamon Barn and explored all the magical sites of the Glens of Antrim. We saw the Fairy Thorn tree from Season1 Episode 5 and The Giant's Causeway from our very first episode. Leo even sang the s...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. It's November and things have been going with a whizz and a bang! On the 5th November, we celebrate Bonfire Night here in the UK, to commemorate the failed gunpowder plot of 1605. A group of Catholic conspirators attempted to blow up King James I and the Houses of Parliament. They failed, but we s...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. It's our Halloween Special! WOOOOOOOOO! We have lots of TREATS for you this episode, including the return of LEO'S TOP FIVE - and a few tricks too! Firstly, we have a song that we learned from Kate Corkery and Winston Nzinga, also known as Spud and Yam ! The Boogie Man song! We hope you join i...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. We are so grateful to all our listeners for their patience - Leo and Emily have been a bit sick with colds - but we're SO glad to be back with a new episode! Our first story this episode is from our guest teller Pyn Stockman . Pyn is a professional storyteller who lives on a boat! She loves fairy...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. This episode, we are thinking about how we can mend and make do - reduce, reuse and recycle things - so that everyone can enjoy the wonders of our beautiful planet. It's not too late, if we all work together for change. Our first story this episode is from our guest teller Maria Credali . Maria ta...

Welcome to Season 3 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children (and grown ups) of all ages. We're back back back! We hope you've had a lovely summer and are looking forward to some story fun. We have so much planned for this season - more Leo's Top Fives, guest storytellers and, of course, our spooky Halloween and festive Holiday episodes! Our story this episode is an old Turkish...

Welcome to the final episode of Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. Its the summer holidays here in England! Hurray! We will be taking a break for the summer but will be back in September with brand new stories and guests for season 3. Yippee!  We thought it would be fitting to end the season with a story from Leo - he tells the tale that is sometimes called &#39...

Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. So this episode is a musical journey through our favourite stories, revisiting our songs and music. Leo and I love singing and making ORIGINAL songs that go with our episodes, often accompanied on guitar by me or by professional guitarist Andy (Daddy producer). We hope that the songs will remind you of your favourite...