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 tales so you can listen to them again! Our guest teller is the absolutely brilliant young talent Nu...
Jul 08, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. So this episode's TOP FIVE is about Leo's favourite gods and goddesses. What are your favourites? Draw us a piccy and don't forget to post it in the FaceBook Group. This episode, we welcome storyteller Sharon Carr to the podcast. Originally from Canada, Sharon Carr, has lived in the Midlands for many years. She can trace her love of stories back to her Welsh mother who would share family tales of ghostly visits, an...
Jun 24, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. We hope you enjoyed this episode's Scavenger Hunt! We would LOVE to see some photos of all the things you found. Did you manage to find them all? Don't forget to post pics in the FaceBook Group.This episode, we welcome storyteller Carl Merry to the podcast.Carl was once a teacher and ran storytelling clubs and story days in schools to engage children with storytelling. He’s been a professional storyteller for over ...
Jun 10, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. We hope you enjoy the return of LEO's TOP FIVE! Don't forget to post pics of your doggies and ideas for other top fives in the FaceBook Group.This episode, we welcome storyteller Eamonn Keenan to the podcast.Eamonn loves telling stories from Irish lore, particularly stories of heroes, fairies and ghosts. He learned many stories from his father, who was also a storyteller and a singer. Now Eamonn tells stories to ch...
May 27, 2021•54 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. It's the merry month of May, and we can feel summer drawing near. We'd love to see some photos of your outdoor activities - don't forget to post them in the FaceBook Group.This episode, we welcome storyteller Valentine Hanson to the podcast.Valentine is an actor and storyteller from East London. He's played lots of characters from history and told of their lives to audiences and families in schools, museums, herita...
May 13, 2021•22 min•Season 2Ep. 18
***We had some tiny audio issues this week. We hope it doesn't affect your fun. Naughty Pixies! Thanks for listening***Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. We would like to give all our listeners a big shout out - we've reached 13,000 downloads!!Thank you all so much, and please keep spreading the world to friends and family.This episode, we welcome storyteller Hannah Need to the podcast. Hannah , The Storyteller of Southfields, is a professional stor...
Apr 29, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. We hope you have enjoyed some holiday fun where you are!This episode, we welcome storyteller Sef Townsend to the podcast. Sef has spent many years animating children and adults through the medium of story, language, rhythm and song and he is equally at home in a nursery school; in the family atmosphere of a local festival; or at a national museum. Recent work has taken him from shantytown schools in South Africa to...
Apr 15, 2021•37 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. This episode we launch on April 1st - also known as APRIL FOOLS DAY! Yes, it's a day for pranks and tricks - but keep them light-hearted and silly If you want to more about the origins of April Fool's Day, you can read more HERE. And for a list of silly and harmless pranks to pull on your family, you can go HERE. This episode, we welcome storyteller Wendy Shearer to the podcast. Wendy Shearer is a Storyteller and W...
Apr 01, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. Happy St Patrick's Day (for yesterday). As you know, Emily & Leo are of Irish heritage and on the 17th March we celebrate the patron saint of Ireland - Saint Patrick. But he wasn't actually Irish!If you'd like to learn more about St Paddy you can do so HERE. Our little Irish lullaby at the end is a famous song called 'The Castle of Dromore'. Emily's parents used to sing it to her and she sang it to Leo when he ...
Mar 17, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. It's March! Happy coming of Spring! And we have two great stories for you in this episode.This episode, we welcome storyteller Jill Lamede to the podcast. Jill, The Tintagel Storyteller, lives in the magical birthplace of King Arthur, and may often be found telling tales on the cliffs above Tintagel Castle. Jill is telling a lovely story called Small Creatures, a tale from Romania shows that even the Creator may ma...
Mar 04, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. So there is lots going on right now. Hurray! Valentine's Day, Pancake Day (UK) and Chinese New Year! And we have THREE amazing stories for you in this episode. Our first is from our young guest teller, Sofia. She is 8 years old and is telling a traditional tale from her home in France - Fox and Crow. Animal tales appear in every culture on every continent, and this one is a lovely version of an Aesop fable. Fox foo...
Feb 18, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. So it's National Storytelling Week here in the UK! So we are celebrating everything story! If you would like to know more, then please visit The Society for Storytelling Website or Facebook Page and share your story fun. We have two lovely stories for you and in this episode we welcome guest storyteller Rachel Ann Harding. She is a traditional storyteller and musician, passionate about myth, and traditional tales. ...
Feb 04, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. We have two lovely stories for you and this episode we welcome guest storyteller Dawn Nelson, or DD Storyteller from the South Downs.Dawn writes and performs both interactive stories and traditional tales, as well as creating story based events and workshops for all ages. She also has her own podcast, Story Lore!You can find out more about Dawn on her website HERE or her YouTube channel HERE.Our story is an old won...
Jan 21, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. Happy New Year! May 2021 bring you light, love and happiness.We have two wonderful wintry tales to see you through the cold dark evenings, and this episode we welcome guest storyteller Giles Abbot from London to the podcast.Giles is a writer and voice artist, but he became a storyteller about 20 years ago when he suffered sudden (but not total) loss of sight. He found he couldn’t see someone across a table or read ...
Jan 07, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. It's Christmas Eve! We are so excited and I hope we can get to sleep tonight!This episode we welcome guest storyteller Hannah Brailsford from Essex to the podcast.Hannah is a brilliant storyteller who is 'captivating, compelling, magic and fun'. She has been telling stories to both children and adults for nearly ten years! Hannah delivers storytelling work shops to Early years and Primary children under guise of Ti...
Dec 23, 2020•32 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! This episode we welcome guest storyteller Joerg Steinkamper from Germany to the podcast. Joerg has been telling stories to all ages since 2009. He loves funny stories and his story is a modern version of an old Sufi tale featuring Nasruddin. If you would like to see Joerg storytelling you can visit his youtube channel HERE. Our story this episode is our version of a tale...
Dec 10, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. Our sixth episode invites renowned storyteller Liz Weir MBE to the podcast.Liz has been telling stories for over 40 years and has told her captivating tales on five continents!! She is also an author and has written three brilliant books: Boom Chica Boom, When Dad was Away and Here, There and Everywhere. If you would like to purchase them you can contact Liz HERE.Liz tells one of her own lovely tales, based on Iris...
Nov 26, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. Our fifth episode is a tale from the lands of Ice and snow - a Norse myth. Norse myths are ancient stories of gods, goddesses, heroes and battles from Scandinavia. They were passed down to the Vikings and have had a lasting impression on us too! Our days of the week are named after Norse gods!In this story, the Thunder god Thor loses his most precious possession - and finds himself in an embarrassing situation (tha...
Nov 12, 2020•30 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. It's our Halloween Special! WOOOOOOOOO! We have two stories for you. What a TREAT - not a trick! Our first story is by Leo and is a version of the Hairy Toe. We found this version from master storyteller Margaret Read MacDonald, a very famous North American tale spinner who specialises in interactive storytelling. Our little poem 'The Troll' was by poet Jack Prelutsky . You can find out more about him HERE. Our mai...
Oct 29, 2020•34 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. Our third episode is a tale from the East - a tale of mystical dragons. Eastern dragons are very different to those in stories from the west. In countries such as China, Korea and Japan, dragons are thought to be noble and wise, elemental gods that ruled over the skies and the oceans. They don’t have wings, and have long serpent-like bodies and magical powers.We have a guest teller this week and we're so looking fo...
Oct 22, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. Our second episode is a classic Greek Myth about a brave hero who must defeat a hideous monster and escape a mysterious labyrinth. WARNING: it gets a bit scary when Theseus goes into the Labyrinth! For more great myths and legends, check out this fabulous collection by Anthony Horrowitz.If you fancy being a GUEST TELLER this season, then you can get in touch with us HERE or in our Dragonfly Tales Podcast Group and ...
Oct 08, 2020•32 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome to Season 2 of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. We're back! We hope you've had a lovely summer and are looking forward to some story fun. We will be releasing episodes every two weeks from now on - but don't worry. We have lots planned this season - Leo's Top Fives, guest storytellers and a spooky Halloween episode for half term! Our first episode is an old Scottish tale about a clever baker lady who manages to fool the faeries into letting her leave fairyland. ...
Sep 24, 2020•25 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Serpents, Sweets and Sausages Welcome to the next episode of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. This episode is our last one of the first season. We'll be taking a break for the summer but we'll be back in September for more story fun. For our finale, we bring you something a bit special - a special guest! Our friend Ella has been working on a story for our podcast and it's just brilliant! Ella presents a fantastic tale of her own design, based on a Greek myth - The Minat...
Jul 14, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 18
The Man whose Mother was a Pirate Welcome to the next episode of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. This episode we head down to the sea in this beautiful story by Margaret Mahy. You find her story, and lots of other stories about pirates in this brilliant book The Kingfisher Treasury of Pirate Stories. Leo's activity this week is all about Pirates! Head over to the Royal Museums Greenwich website for tons of Pirate facts and activities! ARRRRRRRR! Finally, if you like ou...
Jul 07, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Zico & The Greedy Witch Welcome to the next episode of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. This 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 BrazilWe'd also like to thank our lovely friend and fellow storyteller Sef Townsend for helping us with the Brazilian nursery rhyme. Sef has been singing songs from lots...
Jun 30, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Episode 15 – Mayita and the Crocodile Welcome to the next episode of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. This episode we venture to Zimbabwe to hear a story from a clan of the Shona tribe - the Karanga! African storytelling is amazing and our telling would not have been possible without these two awesome books The Lion on the Path and Party Croc!Leo's activity this week is making banana bread - and it's DELICIOUS! Emily is now so into bananas! You can find the recipe at Zi...
Jun 23, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Episode 14 – The Mermaid of Bulgham Bay Welcome to the next episode of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. This episode we had two stories!We hope you enjoyed Leo's excellent telling of The Frog and the Locust. It's a wonderful tale about working together and and making our voices heard to make the world a better place for everyone. We found it in this awesome book Earth Care.our story is from the magical Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. The Isle of Man has a very rich histor...
Jun 16, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Episode 13 – The Chinese Red Riding Hoods Welcome to the next episode of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. This episode our story is a Chinese version of a classic fairytale Little Red Riding Hood. But this one is a bit different. It was written by Isabelle Chang and can be found in this lovely book Womenfolk and Fairy Tales. Our activity this week is about the is all about the wonderful grey wolf! They are not at all the big bad wolves of fairy tales. Visit Wolf Watch U...
Jun 09, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Episode 12 – The Fisherman and the Genie Welcome to the next episode of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. This episode comes from the fabulous collection - The Arabian Nights. The stories are told by the character Scheherazade, who tells a story every night for 1001 nights so that her husband, the King, will keep her alive. Yikes!The famous composer Rimsky Korsakov took several of the stories from the collection and turned them into pieces of music. The voice of the stor...
Jun 02, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Episode 11 – The Bremen Town Musicians Welcome to the next episode of Dragonfly Tales, a story podcast for children of all ages. This episode, we have TWO animal tales for you. 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 Musicians. This is a very popular folk tale in Germany, most famously told by the Brothers Grimm. Bremen is a real place and there ...
May 26, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 11
