Daddy Tell Me a Story Podcast

We continue through Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales and The Dragon's Daughters tonight.

In our first story, The Elf, three beautiful princesses disappear into the earth, and their father will pay anything to get them back. When three young huntsmen go to find them, who better to help them than a creature of the earth?

In our second story A Love Never Had, our heroes go before Master Grull, the leader of Tye...

Welcome back. We have been away a bit, and we are sorry for leaving you all. Some things happened that called our attention elsewhere, but we are ready to continue with our stories tonight.

In our first story from Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, Death makes a deal with a young man, which the young man finds advantageous. That is, until he learns that Death's Messengers are not as they seem.

In our second s...

In our first story, from Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, we find a young tailor who comes upon two great magical beasts in a fight to the death. The victor takes the young tailor on a journey to undo a dreadful curse, and receive good fortune along the way. This happens in The Glass Coffin.

In our second story, from the sixth chapter of The Dragon's Daughter's, Ralus, Baer, Valysa, and the pirate make their wa...

We take a break tonight from our regular story for an Interlude episode. In this story, a wheat sprout decides that he wants to be something more, and determines that he will do whatever it takes to become a tall and strong apple tree. He finds out that trying to be something you are not is often a road to disaster.

Find out what happens as we all tell you a story. 

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In our first story, we open with the first chapter of  our secret story.  It is about an ancient warrior, of a fallen race, who will search over every star in the universe to find the one he loves.

In our second story, we continue with chapter five of The Dragon's Daughters. This chapter is called The Mother of Mermaids, because we get to meet an ancient creature with an ancient grudge against Ralus. Deep within the d...

In our first tale, we read Donkey Cabbages from Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales. It's a funny name for a story, but very descriptive. A young man uses his wits and some magical tools to get his revenge on some witches who wronged him. One such tool is a magical salad. 

In our second tale, we continue with chapter four of The Dragon's Daughters. In this tale, the younger sisters are stolen by the pirates, and Ba...

Canines can be a friend or a foe, depending on where you meet them.

Our first story is from Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, entitled The Dog and the Sparrow. In this story, a starving dog finds a friend in a stalwart and loyal sparrow. When tragedy befalls the poor dog, the sparrow seeks to avenge his friend, no matter the cost.

Our second story is chapter three of The Dragon's Daughters, entitled Wolves a...

Today's episode finds us running as fast as we can for different reasons.

In the first story, The Hare and the Hedgehog have a race for a wonderful prize. Believe it or not, the Hedgehog wins, despite his crooked little legs. Exactly how, you will have to hear to believe.

In the second story, The Next Logical Step, Chapter 2 of the Dragon's Daughters, Baer agrees to join Ralus on a quest to save the litt...

Welcome back, everybody. I hope you had a fantastic summer. We will get back into our school year schedules with some more Grimm's Fairy Tales and some original compositions as well. 

In our first story, we learn of a cobbler named Master Pfriem, whose favorite activity is finding faults in others. He criticizes his wife, his apprentices, his servants...even the angels of Heaven are not spared from his savage tongue. ...

In our final story of Season One, we finish out our first adventure together with good times.

Our first story is from Grimm's Fairy Tales, and is called The Six Servants. It is about a prince, who meets six men with extraordinary powers. They pledge themselves to him in order to fight a sorceress, and rescue the beautiful princess. However, this princess may not be what she seemed to be. Will the prince and his six l...

In this tale, we come to the thrilling climax of our tale The Soldier, the Girl, and the Wild. In chapter eleven: Finding Courage, Loyalty, and Love, our heroes are in dire straits. They stand on the brink of a lifetime of torture in the horrific Garden of the Witches, and only a miracle can save them. Thankfully, courage, loyalty, and love are most definitely classified as miracles. 

Find out what happens as we all tell y...

In our first story tonight, a poor servant girl is struck with a horrifying tragedy. She retreats into the woods to do the only thing she can do: trust God. She meets a friendly, magical dove and a mysterious old woman. Will she ever find her way out of the woods?

In our second story, we continue with chapter ten of The Soldier, the Girl, and the Wild. In this chapter, called Blue Jay, the men of the village gather themsel...

Our first story comes from Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales and is called The King of the Golden Mountain. In it, a young man wins a fantastic reward and becomes King of the Golden Mountain. However, his queen betrays him, and he sets out on a quest to regain his home.

In our second story, we continue with The Soldier, the Girl, and the Wild in chapter nine, called An Educated Guess. Len returns from the Wild to visit the...

In our first story tonight, The Gold Children, we return to Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales.  In this story, two magical children are born to a poor fisherman and his wife under miraculous circumstances. One goes out into the world to seek adventure, and the other stays home. The one who leaves says that if anything happens to him, then the Golden Lilly in the garden will wilt. When the Lilly wilts, the Gold Child must leave his ...

We are back on track tonight.

In our first story, we read a sad story  by Hans Christian Anderson called The Little Match Girl. The little girl went out on New Years Eve to sell matches. She was unsuccessful in this, but that turns out to be a small comfort, as she uses her unsold matches to keep warm on the biting cold night. She sees wonderful things by the light of her little matches, ending in the most wonderful, and t...

In tonight's episode, we take a break from the main story and visit a land far to the east, with a young man that you think you know. Aladdin dreams of only one thing: never having to work for a living. Much to his mother's chagrin, he refuses to learn a trade, which would inevitably mean working for the rest of his life. One day, he meets someone who may be able to grant this wish of his, but Aladdin learns that easily g...

In our first story, Snow-White and Rose-Red are sisters. They love each other and care for each other like sisters should. One day, they meet two different strangers, who are as different as can be.  Their kindness and love win the day.

In our second story, we read chapter five of our original story The Soldier, the Girl, and the Wild. This chapter is called The Hedge. The Wild, the land of magic, intersects with our world...

In our episode today, we learn that it pays to be kind, but there are some creatures that are not to be trusted.

In our first story, Queen Bee, we read the story of Witling, who received his name because he is naively kind to everyone. However, his kindness pays off when he needs to lift a curse that will turn him to stone.

Our second story is chapter 4 of our original story The Soldier, the Girl, and the Wild. ...