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Bedtime Stories for Children

Welcome to “Bedtime Stories”. Popular children"s stories, classic tales, and time-honored fables. A podcast that will entertain everyone in the family and help you fall asleep.Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Samsung Podcasts, Amazon Music, Alexia, and YouTube

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6:40

Snow White

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/09/02

Based on the classic 19th-century German fairy tale "Snow White". The Brothers Grimm originally published the story in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales.Copyright 2024 Steve AdamsBedtime Stories for Children is produced by Magic Monorail

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2:26

The kid and the wolf

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/09/01

"The kid and the wolf" an Aesop's Fable. Aesop's Fables are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BC. Initially the fables were addressed to adults and covered religious, social and political themes. They were also put to use as ethical guides and from the Renaissance onwards were particularly used for the education of children.

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8:17

The story of Cinderella

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/09/01

"The story of Cinderella" is based on a folk tale about oppression and triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The protagonist is a young woman living in forsaken circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune, with her ascension to the throne via marriage.The first literary European version of the story was published in Italy by Giambattista Basile in his Pentamerone in 1634; the version that is now most widely known in the English-speaking world was

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6:19

Little Red Riding Hood

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/09/01

"Little Red Riding Hood" is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Its origins can be traced back to the 10th century to several European folk tales, including one from Italy called The False Grandmother. The two best known versions were written by Charles Perrault and the Brothers GrimmCopyright 2024 Steve AdamsBedtime Stories for Children is produced by Magic Monorail

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6:59

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/09/01

“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” is based on a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe written in 1797. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is also a symphonic poem by the French composer Paul Dukas, completed in 1897. The piece was based on Goethe's 1797 poem of the same name. By far the most performed and recorded of Dukas's works, its notable appearance in the Walt Disney 1940 animated film Fantasia has led to the piece becoming widely known to audiences outside the classical concert hall.Copyright 2024 Steve

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6:41

The Little Mermaid

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/09/01

"The Little Mermaid" is based on a Danish literary fairy tale written by the Hans Christian Andersen. The story follows the journey of a young mermaid who is willing to give up her life in the sea as a mermaid to gain a human soul. The tale was first published in 1837 as part of a collection of fairy tales for children. There is a statue portraying the mermaid in Copenhagen, Denmark, where the story was written and first published.Copyright 2024 Steve AdamsBedtime Stories for Children is produced by

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6:36

Jack and the Beanstalk

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/09/01

The story of “Jack and the Beanstalk" is based on an English fairy tale. It originally appeared as "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" in 1734 and again as "The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk" in 1807."Jack and the Beanstalk" is the best known of the "Jack tales", a series of stories featuring the English hero and stock character Jack.Copyright 2024 Steve AdamsBedtime Stories for Children is produced by Magic Monorail

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7:40

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/08/25

"Goldilocks and the Three Bears" is one of the most popular fairy tales in the English language. The story is a 19th-century British fairy tale of which three versions exist.The original version of the tale tells of a badly-behaved old woman who enters the forest home of three bachelor bears whilst they are away. She sits in their chairs, eats some of their porridge, and sleeps in one of their beds. When the bears return and discover her, she wakes up, jumps out of the window, and is never seen

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7:19

Chicken Little

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/08/25

“Chicken Little” is a European folk tale with a moral in the form of a cumulative tale about a chicken who believes that the world is coming to an end. The phrase "The sky is falling!" features prominently in the story, and has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. Similar stories go back more than 25 centuries. The story was originally part of the oral folk tradition and only began to appear in print after the

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6:06

The Princess and the Pea

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/08/25

"The Princess and the Pea" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a young woman whose royal identity is established by a test of her sensitivity. The tale was first published by Andersen in 1835. Andersen had heard the story as a child, and it likely has its source in folk material, possibly originating from Sweden, as it is unknown in the Danish oral tradition. Neither "The Princess and the Pea" nor Andersen's other tales of 1835 were well received by Danish critics, who disliked

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6:44

The Elves and The Shoemaker

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/08/21

"The Elves and The Shoemaker" is based on a set of fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm about a poor shoemaker who receives much-needed assistance from helpful elves. The original story is the first of three fairy tales contained in the German Grimm's Fairy Tales under the common title "Die Wichtelmänner"Copyright 2024 Steve AdamsBedtime Stories for Children is produced by Magic Monorail

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7:20

The Golden Goose

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/08/21

"The Golden Goose" is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. The Brothers Grimm were academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century. They were among the first and best-known collectors of German (and European) folk tales, and popularized traditional oral tale types such as "Cinderella", "The Frog Prince", "Hansel and Gretel", "Rapunzel", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Sleeping

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7:09

Rumpelstiltskin

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/08/21

"Rumpelstiltskin" is based on German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. The story is about a fairy who spins straw into gold in exchange for the Queen’s firstborn.The same story pattern appears in numerous other cultures including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Scotland, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, South America, Hungary, Japan and France.The Cornish tale of Duffy and the Devil plays out an essentially similar plot featuring

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7:34

The Gingerbread Man

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/08/17

“The Gingerbread Man” was adapted from a folktale about a gingerbread man's escape from various pursuers until his eventual demise between the jaws of a fox. "The Gingerbread Boy" first appeared in print in the May, 1875, issue of St. Nicholas Magazine in a cumulative tale which, like "The Little Red Hen", depends on repetitious scenes featuring an ever-growing cast of characters for its effect.

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6:30

How the Leopard got his spots

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/08/17

"How the Leopard got his spots" was adapted from a classic children's story Copyright 2024 Steve AdamsBedtime Stories for Children is produced by Magic Monorail

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6:51

Sleeping Beauty

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/08/16

"Sleeping Beauty" or "Little Briar Rose", also titled in English as "The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods", is a classic fairy tale about a princess who is cursed to sleep for a hundred years by an evil fairy, to be awakened by a handsome prince at the end of them. The good fairy, realizing that the princess would be frightened if alone when she awakens, uses her wand to put every living person and animal in the palace asleep, to awaken when the princess does. The earliest known version of the story is

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7:43

Thumbelina

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/08/16

Thumbelina is a literary fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen first published on December 16, 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the second instalment of “Fairy Tales Told for Children.” Thumbelina is about a tiny girl and her adventures with marriage-minded toads and moles. She successfully avoids their intentions before falling in love with a flower-fairy prince just her size.Thumbelina is chiefly Andersen's invention, though he did take inspiration from tales of miniature

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6:33

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/08/16

"Three Billy Goats Gruff" is adapted from a Norwegian fairytale by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr, first published between 1841 and 1844. It has an "eat-me-when-I'm-fatter" plot. The first version of the story in English appeared in George Webbe Dasent's translation of some of the Norske Folkeeventyr, published as Popular Tales from the Norse in 1859. The heroes of the tale are three male goats who need to outsmart a ravenous troll to cross the bridge to their

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7:18

Hansel and Gretel

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/08/11

"Hansel and Gretel" was adapted from a fairy tale collected by the German Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in Grimm's Fairy Tales.Hansel and Gretel are a brother and sister abandoned in a forest, where they fall into the hands of a witch who lives in a house made of gingerbread. The cannibalistic witch intends to fatten the children before eventually eating them, but Gretel outwits the witch and kills her. The two children then escape with their lives and return home with the witch's

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7:14

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Bedtime Stories for Children ·

2024/08/11

“The Tale of Peter Rabbit” was adapted from the children's book written by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he gets into, and is chased around, the garden of Mr. McGregor. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. It was revised and privately printed by Potter in 1901 after several publishers' rejections, but was printed in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1902. The book

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