Archived Stories

The Tiger's Whisker
An adaptation of an old Asian folktale that has many versions as retold by Germaine Dietsch

Old and Far
A Jeffco Spellbinder, Gordon Benesh, was invited to go with his third grade class to the Denver Planetarium. Gordon waxed poetic.

Why Butterflies Can't Fly Straight
Retold from a Tewa Indian Legend

The Wave

Old Grandfather and the Half Blanket

The Fisherman and His Wife
A tale from the Brothers Grimm

How Indian Corn Came Into the World
Excerpts from an Ojibwa Legend told to Henry R. Schoolcraft

Rainbow Crow - A Tale of Snow from the Lenni Lenape Tribe
As retold by S. E. Schlosser

The Strange Visitor
From When The Lights Go Out: Twenty Scary Tales To Tell by Margaret Read MacDDonald

The Frog Princess

Why the Evergreen Trees Keep Their Leaves in Winter

The Awongalema Tree
Thanks to drummer Stephen Sharpe and Laurie Loeb for passing on this African folktale

Spring Defeats Winter
A tale from the Seneca Tribe of the Northeast Woodlands

The Red Silk Handkerchief
From When The Lights Go Out: Twenty Scary Tales To Tell by Margaret Read MacDDonald

Senor Coyote - The Judge
A Tale from Mexico

The Sticky Sticky Pine

Grandmother Cedar Tree
Native American Story from the Sammish people of the Northwest

Arachne
A Greek Myth

Any Day Can Be Thanksgiving
Adapted from Thanksgiving at the Tappletons’ by Eileen Spinelli

The Tiger and the Frog
A Tale From Tibet

Clever Manka
A Tale From the Czech Republic,as retold by Parker Fillmore in The Shepherd's Nosegay (1920)

The Cracked Pot
An Indian Folktale

The Legend of Chrstmas Tinsel
This story is a retelling of an old German legend about the origin of Christmas tree tinsel, based on a version by Shirley Climo titled Cobweb Christmas

The North Wind & the Sun

It's In Your Hands
A Tale for Earth Day

New Attitude Brings New Satisfaction
A Jewish Folktale

The Two Travelers and The Farmer
A Tale From North America

Grandmothers
Germaine Kresser Dietsch

The Peddler of Swaffham

Maybe I'm a Spellbinder
Lev Ropes is the Grandbear of Jeffco Spellbinders

Strawberries
A Cherokee Legend of Love

The Legend of the Bluebonnet
A Comanche Legend

The Woman and the Stone

The Leprechaun's Gold
This classic tale goes by many names including The Leprechaun and the Red Scarf

How Anansi Became Owner of All the Stories
A tale from Africa

The Rose and the Butterfly
an Aesop fable

Going to Grandma's House
A Variation of a Story Told by Heather Lyle At the Koebel Library Storytelling Festival October 2003

The Legend of Saint Valentine
One of our favorite versions of the legend of this saint.

Darby the Tailor - A Story of Luck and Leprechauns

Truth & Story
Retold by Germaine Dietsch, with permission of Bobby Norfolk, from his book, The Moral of the Story

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Audio Stories

Grandbear's Song
by Lev Ropes
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The Giant Who Played Pickup Sticks
by Mary Ann Janson
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Video Stories

In Charge of Celebrations
by Sue Parker
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Kim Stacey
by Kim Stacey
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Wake up, Jake!
by Tommy Paxton
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Stories
by Sue Parker
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