Stories

Every story follows the printed text word for word, with a voice for every character, original music and sound effects. The whole text is there to read along, in time with the recording.

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Complete Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt

Mother Holle

10 min 8 roles, 8 voices ages 4 and up

A hard-working girl drops her shuttle into the well while spinning. She jumps in after it and wakes up in a meadow in another world. An old woman with very large teeth lives there: when she shakes her feather beds, it snows down here. Unabridged, with a full cast, music and sound effects.

Complete Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt

The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids

10 min 6 roles, 5 voices ages 4 and up

The old goat has to go into the forest and warns her seven kids about the wolf: they will know him by his rough voice and his black feet. But the wolf is clever. A tale to hold your breath for, unabridged, with a full cast, music and sound effects.

Complete Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt

Rumpelstiltskin

10 min 7 roles, 5 voices ages 5 and up

A miller boasts to the King that his daughter can spin straw into gold. Now she sits in a room full of straw and weeps, until a little man comes in. He helps her, but not for nothing. The tale of the name nobody knows, unabridged, with a full cast, music and sound effects.

Complete Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt

The Frog-King, or Iron Henry

12 min 6 roles, 5 voices ages 4 and up

A princess loses her golden ball in a well, and a frog brings it back up for her. But in return he wants to be her playmate, eat from her little golden plate and sleep in her little bed. The first tale of the Grimms' collection, unabridged, with a full cast, music and sound effects.