Grownups Read Princess Stories

Grownups Read Princess Stories

Grownups Read Princess Stories is the podcast that has grownups from around the world read Fair Tales and true history stories of Princesses. Each episode is a different grownup reading in their own unique voice.

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May 3, 2022 37 mins

The Boy and the Trolls was written by Walter Stenstrom.

Born ( 1881 ) in Malilla, he became an author, comedy writer, and lecturer. 

 Walters parents were the pharmacist Axel Fabian Stenström and Ingeborg Olivia Abrahamsson. He graduated in 1900 and in 1904 became a pharmacology candidate.

He was active as a theater man and managing director of Skådebanan , but also wrote some fairy tale plays.

Other children tales includ...

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The Prince Without a Shadow was written by Jeanna Oterdahl (1897-1965) Jeanna Oterdahl was the daughter of Captain Philip Oterdahl and Eva Frögren. She was the eldest of five siblings. After graduating as a teacher in Stockholm in 1901, Oterdahl was employed at Mathilda Hall's school in Gothenburg (where she herself was a student) but at the same time devoted herself to extensive writing. In the 1920s, she reduced her teaching hour...

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July 5, 2021 15 mins
"The Wedding of Mrs. Fox" (German: Die Hochzeit der Frau Füchsin) is two German fairy tales collected under the same title by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales as number 38. It was included in all editions, and is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 65, 1350, 1352*, and 1510.  The second version of the tale was told to the Grimms by Ludovico Brentano Jordis, who also wrote down "The Lion and the Frog" for the brothers.
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May 27, 2021 24 mins
The Maiden Without Hands comes from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, ( Brothers Grimm ) "Das Mädchen ohne Hände," Kinder- und Hausmärchen, gesammelt durch die Brüder Grimm [Children's and Household Tales -- Grimms' Fairy Tales], 7th edition, vol. 1 (Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1857), no. 31, pp. 162-68. A shorter, simpler version of this tale was included in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812). The ta...
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May 21, 2021 24 mins

"The Twelve Brothers" (German: Die zwölf Brüder) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 9). Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book

It is of Aarne-Thompson type 451 ("The Brothers Who Were Turned into Birds"), which is commonly found throughout Europe.  Other variants of the Aarne-Thompson type include The Six Swans, The Twelve Wild Ducks, Udea and her Seven Brothers, Th...

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The Companionship of the Cat and the Mouse  (German: Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft) is a tale written by the Brothers Grimm.

A shorter version of the tale was included in the Brothers Grimm's manuscript collection of 1808, and published in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1812. Their version is based upon an oral tradition communicated by Gretchen Wild (1787–1819) in Kassel.[2]


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March 23, 2021 21 mins
The True Story of Lakshmibai. Read by Mily Mumford
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March 16, 2021 24 mins
The Giant Who Had No Heart In His Body written by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were Norwegian , Read by Laura Anne Harris
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The Girl Who Dances with Skeletons: My Friend Fresno, Written by Ashley Wellman. Read by Ashley Wellman and Reagan Wellman
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Little Saddleslut by Edmund Martin Geldart. Read by Tamlynn Bryson
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February 23, 2021 31 mins
Little Thumbelina Written by Hans Christian Andersen. Read by Shirley Blanch
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The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek written by Jenny Wagner. Read by Shane Adamczak
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February 9, 2021 19 mins
The Legend of the Sea Written and Read by Nymphia.
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The Goodman of Wastness by Walter Traill Dennison, read by Turner Coats.
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The Good Ferryman and the Water Nymphs by Maude Ashurt Biggs. Read by Reid Messerschmidt
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Interview with Ellen Haun. Co Author of the book " Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling and Other Feminist Fairy Tales "
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January 19, 2021 17 mins
"The Little Mermaid Gets a Vagina" from the book " Cinderella & the Glass Ceiling. And Other Feminist Fairy Tales. Written by Laura Lane & Ellen Haun Read by Ellen Haun
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January 12, 2021 15 mins
The Mail Coach Passengers by Hans Christian Andersen. Read by Camiel Pell
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January 5, 2021 17 mins
Sirena read by Zane Oak
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December 31, 2020 24 mins
The Story of the Year, written by Hans Christian Andersen. Read by Charles Martin
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