Latest Childrensstories Podcast Episodes
Broken Dada
Silly and Funny Things - October 11, 2021 16:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsDada is out of practice telling Silly and Funny Things... could he be broken? Silly and Funny Things are our family's bedtime stories. Each boy (Miles, Ari, and Levi) gets to pick a word that will show up in the story. The stories aren't edited (who has time for that) and they include ever...
Superb
Silly and Funny Things - October 04, 2021 16:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWhat happens when you eat "superbs" and they give you super powers like x-ray vision and super strength. Silly and Funny Things are our family's bedtime stories. Each boy (Miles, Ari, and Levi) gets to pick a word that will show up in the story. The stories aren't edited (who has time for t...
The Key to Everything
Silly and Funny Things - September 27, 2021 16:42 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsMama finally gets her vaccine and thinks that it makes her completely invincible. Silly and Funny Things are our family's bedtime stories. Each boy (Miles, Ari, and Levi) gets to pick a word that will show up in the story. The stories aren't edited (who has time for that) and they include ...
"The Purple Reader" by Douglas Evans
Read Me a Story, Ink - September 26, 2021 23:21 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsKenneth is the worst reader in his class until a mysterious purple book appears on the bottom bookshelf of the reading corner. Each day there are fewer pictures and more words but each page chronicles events in Kenneth’s life that haven’t happened yet.
"The Princess Who Kicked Butt" by Will Shetterly
Read Me a Story, Ink - September 09, 2021 15:54 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhen a princess is born, the Fairy Who is Good with Names names her the “Princess Who Kicked Butt.” However, the King and Queen hear the “Princess Who Reads Books.” It takes an Evil Enchanter, a kidnapped king and queen, a handsome page and a horse named Hates Everything to allow her to live up ...
"The Test Tester" by Douglas Evans
Read Me a Story, Ink - August 19, 2021 01:27 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThird-grader Loren doesn’t like taking tests until she is contacted by the top-secret Iowa Test Site to be a test tester. Charged with her new duties, she settles into answering the questions seriously while looking for flaws. And if she ever has any questions, she can contact any one of the fou...
"Fluffle-Picking Time" by Chris Grabenstein
Read Me a Story, Ink - July 25, 2021 16:09 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“The outdoors smelled like cotton candy mixed with the fresh scent of pillowcases dried on a clothesline.” It was clearly fluffle-picking time, and Charlotte’s dad thought it could be the best crop in six years. Thousands of stuffed bears, blue whales, monkeys, and other critters just ripe for t...
"Jamie and the Bakerman" by Phyllis Root
Read Me a Story, Ink - July 05, 2021 17:24 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhen a young boy steps into a new bakery to get out of the rain, he is invited to help with the baking. But he soon finds out that what they are really cooking up is the weather… sprinkle the flour and the rain comes down, stir the bowl and the wind whips up.
"The Clever Thief" by Sophie Masson
Read Me a Story, Ink - June 01, 2021 15:03 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhen a young boy is captured by a band of robbers and forced to do their bidding, he foils their attempts to steal by taking their instructions too literally.
"When Swamp Lily Met Swamp Thing" by J. G. Formato
Read Me a Story, Ink - May 10, 2021 21:52 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhen Swamp Thing appears in 12-year-old Lily’s closet, with sorrowful eyes, begging for help in cleaning up his trash-strewn home, Lily elicits the help of her classmates in forming the North Florida Nature Preservers to clean up the swamp. But she keeps her friendship to Swamp Thing her special...
"Dr. Peterson's Electric Pumpkin Field" by Jack Stillman
Read Me a Story, Ink - April 26, 2021 23:23 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAfter his wife and son die in the epidemic of 1918, Jonathan Ford must find a way to keep his farm alive and instill the will to live in his young, influenza stricken daughter, which he does with love, ingenuity and some electric pumpkin seeds.
"The San Jacinto Corn" by Diane Bailey
Read Me a Story, Ink - April 11, 2021 15:19 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAfter Daniel's and Joseph's pa died at the Alamo, the boys joined Sam Houston's brigade to fight for Texas independence. After Santa Anna's surrender, Sam Houston passed around an ear of corn from their meager supplies and encouraged each soldier to take a kernel home so that they could cultivat...
"Boom Town" by Sonia Levitin
Read Me a Story, Ink - March 19, 2021 15:11 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAmanda and her family have come to California to join her father in the mining camp but they find nothing but a few broken down log cabins. Soon Amanda is baking pies that her Pa sells to the miners and she is suggesting to traveling peddlers and wandering artisans that they settle down and open...
"Messenger's Plight: A Dragon Tale" by Robyn Jordan
Read Me a Story, Ink - February 28, 2021 20:04 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhen Hsing Li's brother is injured, Li must deliver a critical military message to the emperor, but is nearly forced to turn back by a severe winter storm...that is until she outwits the Snow Dragon and gains his respect and support.
"Little Mary and the Big Bear" by Gretchen Woelfle
Read Me a Story, Ink - February 11, 2021 00:39 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhen Mary's papa announces he can't go to the mill because Buttercup is about to have her calf, nine-year-old Mary begs to go alone. Her mother calls her dauntless, her father gives in and Mary sets off on Old Major. But neither Mary nor Old Major are prepared to meet the biggest bear even seen ...
"The Wrong Spoon" by Sophie Masson
Read Me a Story, Ink - January 21, 2021 21:17 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDr. Bee is the greatest saucerer in the land. Why his sauces are almost magical. Or so that is what his young apprentice, Clara, discovers when she stirs the super-duper, extra special Christmas honeycomb caramel sauce with an old spoon she finds hidden away behind a cupboard.
"Two-Thirty Crossing" by Leslie Wyatt
Read Me a Story, Ink - January 01, 2021 22:02 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsYoung John Maxwell and his dad live in a Nebraska soddy, two and one-half miles from the railroad crossing. But with a freezing rain storm and only a half hour to intercept the afternoon train, that two and one-half mile ride on their little black mare, Ozark, seems like an eternity to John who ...
“A Miracle for Marci: A Story for Hanukkah” by Miriam Rinn
Read Me a Story, Ink - December 07, 2020 22:50 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsYoung Marci needs the help of her neighbor, Mrs. Gold to plan a surprise Hanukkah party for her recently emigrated family. Since religious practices were banned in her native Soviet Union, Marci and her family never learned the true history of Hanukkah or how to celebrate it.
"The Christmas Elf" by Elizabeth Yates
Read Me a Story, Ink - November 29, 2020 22:44 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAfter Jennie and her mother mixed the batter for the Christmas cake, Jennie took it into her sick father's room so that he could stir in his wish. Then Jennie and her mom both stirred in their wishes. Now, it was up to the Christmas Elf to grant one of the three wishes.
"The Wild Dog of Caucomgomoc" by Charles Boardman Hawes
Read Me a Story, Ink - November 09, 2020 21:01 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhen an old trapper dies, his faithful bloodhound turns wild and fearsome tales grow around his mournful howl. But when the Wild Dog of Caucomgomac saves a young boy lost in the swamps, the townsfolk reassess their fears and give him a loving home for the rest of his days.
"The Wild Dog of Caucomgomoc" by Charles Boardman Hawes
Read Me a Story, Ink - November 09, 2020 21:01 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhen an old trapper dies, his faithful bloodhound turns wild and fearsome tales grow around his mournful howl. But when the Wild Dog of Caucomgomac saves a young boy lost in the swamps, the townsfolk reassess their fears and give him a loving home for the rest of his days.
"The Fisherman and the Bird" by Sonia Levitin
Read Me a Story, Ink - October 20, 2020 01:53 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRico has lived and fished alone since being jilted in his youth. But one day, Rico discovers that a pair of beautiful birds have built a nest at the top of his mast. He is ready to destroy the nest so that he can sail, but the local school-teacher convinces Rico of the rarity of the birds and th...
"The Powder Horn: An Historical Tale" by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Read Me a Story, Ink - October 05, 2020 16:08 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsA gently told story of how small things can bring joy. Alice finds and old, engraved powder horn in Mr. Hall's antique shop. When she brings it home, she and her father decide to build a "rainy-day" room in the attic decorated in the same designs as the powder horn.
“Calling Papa Home: A Tale of the Great Peshtigo Fire, 1871” by Julia Pferdehirt.
Read Me a Story, Ink - September 16, 2020 01:43 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDuring the Great Peshtigo Forest Fire of 1871, Susanna's papa sets off to help his sister-in-law and her baby back to the river and safety. But before he can make it home the smoke becomes so thick he loses all sense of direction. Luckily, Susanna has the presence of mind to climb the bell tower...
"The Old Gray Chair" by Douglas Evans
Read Me a Story, Ink - August 31, 2020 23:21 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsZachary just can't seem to stay in his seat. But as it turns out, it isn’t entirely his fault. Mr. Leeks, the old janitor, lets on that Zack’s seat is the orneriest bucking chair at W. T. Mellon Elementary School. Well, yahoo! Looks like there’s going to be a chair bustin’ rodeo in the classroom...
"The Pied Piper of Hamelin, A Tale From Germany" by Amy Friedman
Read Me a Story, Ink - August 16, 2020 17:43 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsA fresh and lively retelling of a traditional German folk tale in which a piper is not paid his due for ridding the town of Hamelin of its rats. But he forewarned the town that his pipe could play many tunes and they paid the price.
"The Entrance Exam, A Young Witch's Tale" by Mary Carey
Read Me a Story, Ink - July 29, 2020 02:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsKate is refused entrance to Miss Perkle's School for Young Witches, that is until one of her spells saves the school from destruction and causes Miss Perkle to reconsider.
"The Soap Bandit" by Dennis Haseley
Read Me a Story, Ink - July 07, 2020 01:20 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJesse just can't help but get dirty, which is a problem when he goes to visit his aunt who lives in a town where EVERYONE is clean and tidy, that is until the soap bandit steals all of the soap. As everything and everyone gets dirtier and dirtier, attitudes begin to change, until the whole town ...
"Ethan Unbound" by Gary L. Blackwood
Read Me a Story, Ink - June 14, 2020 20:47 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsA young book lover thinks the librarian is a witch, only to find out how true that is when he is locked in the library after closing on a stormy night.
"Kite Flier" by Dennis Haseley
Read Me a Story, Ink - May 26, 2020 15:29 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhen the Kite Flier's wife dies in childbirth, the Kite Flier stops making kites until he realizes the joy they bring his infant son. From that day forth kites are what father and son share. Even when the son is grown and moved away, the first windy day of each year they both put a kite up and l...
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