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About the “ten commandments”: what a pity that you have to include bible stories for kids. So much damage in the world is due to religion. Please let kids wait until they’re older before giving them bible talk. Then they can decide for themselves. Kids are too impressionable. Let them make up their own minds when they’re older. Otherwise religion will always have the same value as superstition.
Daniel,
Thanks for your comment. Although I take your point, there’s nothing on Storynory.com to try and persuade anybody to take up religeon. We do believe that knowing about Moses and the Ten Commandments is an important part of any child’s education. It’s part of our cultural heritage. They also happen to be very good stories, well read by John Le Mesurier.
Our plans include doing some Greek myths. Perhaps they will be more to your taste.
Hi Trinh,
We will be publishing a Bertie book, we hope in about a month’s time.
Dear Hank Christen
All the stories on our site are free, including the Bible Stories.
You can burn our Stories onto a CD using a free program such as iTunes or Microsoft Media Player.
The paid-for Bible stories at OnceUponaWorld.net are not our product, and we have no financial interest in their sales, and we don’t even have copies of them. Our arrangment is that Once Upon a World let us put out a few free stories in return for us linking to them.
There really should be enough free stuff here for everybody on Storynory. Have a look under the Stories tab. You will find a huge collection. I hope that Anna will enjoy most of them. There is a new free stories every week.
Hugh London
what a great idea - - thanks — you’ve helped bedtime enormously
- we’re becoming very fond of bertie
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Dear Ms. and Mr. Storynory:
We just discovered your site thanks to the BBC interview. It’ll be interesting to see if your ‘hits’ skyrocket as a result. It looks like you are doing well with sponsors.
Our grandkids live 500 miles away so we don’t get to read to them enough. We’ve recorded a handful of stories for them, mostly Geisel/Seuss stories (which are copyright still). We read them into GarageBand and added soundtracks … music, squealing pigs, fire engine sirens, etc. Great fun, but no substitute for the million voices of an accomplished actress.
I’m sending the grandchildren a handful of your most recent readings … they’re great, although I found The Spider and the Fly to be pretty scary!
Speaking of which … two stories I remember most vividly from my childhood were The Snow Queen (HC Anderson originally) but in a very vividly illustrated book and “Strewwel Peter” a sadistic, nasty little story, originally in German, with chilling illustrations of an evil boy with long fingernails. He was chased by someone with scissors who wanted to cut them off (read “penis” for little boys). I’ve often wondered if it might not have contributed to Hitler’s psychopathology and even to WWII. It is credited with the birth of a more recent popular movie. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Scissorhands
I think Natasha could scare the crap out of little kids with a dramatic reading of Strewwel Peter (Google it and look at the illustrations in the original). I’m really not suggesting you do it … just being playful with the idea.
Unless of course you want to start WWIII. Oooops! Wait a minute! Bush and Blair have done that one already. You *could* try for WWIV.
We enjoy your humor across The Pond and out here in the Wild West where Men are Republicans and the sheep are deeply troubled!
Have fun … You’ve got a great thing going. Let’s hope though that your readings supplement, not replace, the hallowed ritual of children being read to by their parents and grandparents at bedtime.
Dana and Carolyn Wilson / Salt Lake City, Utah
Hi, just wanted to say a big thank you for your free stories!
My children listen to them before going to sleep - I prefer to stimulate their imagination with your stories than TV (which we didn’t even have until my ex pressured me into it as I wasn’t giving them a ‘normal’ life!!)
So we are off to listen right now….
Many thanks and keep up the great work
Hollie,
Perhaps the sound on your computer is turned off? If you are using Windows, you should find a little icon representing a speaker in the bottom right of your screen. Right-click it and open the master volume control. Check that none of the the “mute” boxes are ticked.
You also need to have either speakers or headphones plugged into the audio out of your computer.
Hope this helps.
You are a blessing to children. My child loves your stories and she would listen to the same stories many times over without feeling bored especially “A Christmas Carol” by Dickens. I am indebted to you for your generosity in publishing the stories free. I have told many of my friends about your website. Once again, many many thanks!
Thank you for this great web site. It’s good to listen to stories told by someone who knows how to read in such a thoughtful way. The site is easy to navigate, and looks very good. Congratulations!
EOL (from Paris, France)
This is a great site. Myself and my kids love these stories. Great site once again. And the story teller…..I love you.
Tim from North Carolina, U.S.
I LOVE this site! THANK YOU THANK YOU AND THANK YOU! I’ve been looking for such site for a long time. Finally found you, Bertie! I grew up listening to radios, we didn’t have a TV back then. I am still a little bit anti-TV to these days. In fact, my kids are not allowed to watch a lot of TV. This site is a great site for my kids. I think listening to stories will help their speech.
I understand your stories are free today. I wonder how long they will remain for free? Do you need donation to keep the site running?
And Natasha, you are wonderful! Thank you!
Trinity
Thank you for you kind words. We do plan to keep the stories free. Of course we don’t turn away donations! These can be sent to our PayPal account, Bertie@storynory.com. We are planning a Christmas competition, and thinking of asking for a small donation from entrants - but it will be free to anyone from a country where credit cards and paypal is not generally accepted.
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There ate lots of useful information. I like it very much. It is so great. I`ll try to visit it more often.
Dear Colette, Greg, Andrew, Kenneth and others - many thanks for you kind words which are much appreciated.
Thank you so much for providing this public service! My kids love Storynory. My 6 year old loves the Greek myths and my 2 year old says “Storynory!” and wants to listen every day. I have recommended this site to all my friends!
Faithful Listener - thank you for the suggestion of It’s a Wonderful Life - could be one for next Christmas - but we will have to look into the copyright. It looks like the plot dates from the time of the film in the 1940s, and we might not be able to do it.
Sarah - and others who have left feedback recently - it’s so nice to hear that your children like our stories. Many thanks for letting us know.
I love my job. I am an ESL/EFL teacher. Your stories are a great help to me.
Thank you…thank you…thank you.
Victoria, we are glad our stories are a help to you. If you have any suggestions as to how we can help teachers more, please let us know.
Aziz
There are no download links on the blog entries under the “kidding section” - this is because they are just brief notes on relevant topics. Of course all our 50 audio stories have downloads.
Thank for such great site. We currently live in Europe, in non-speaking English environment. Your stories give our children a chance to grow like their friends living homeland.
Thank you again.
Hi!Q
Great site!
Your website was mentioned in an article in the Miami Herald (1/27/07). Our daughter loves stories, therefore we immediately went to your site as it struck us as such a great idea. Good luck and thanks
Thanks for letting us know about the Miami Herald - we’re really pleased your daughter like our stories!
Is it possible to do a reading of Winnie the Pooh or is this book unavailable?
Dear Sylvia and Evelyn,
We would love Natasha to read Winnie the Pooh, unfortunately Disney and the other licence holders / copyright owners would find it very unamusing. Ho-hum.
Thank you very much, storynory, I teach English to young children and you are a great help for me. I am catalan and this is a good way to practice your lovely language. Congratulations
Dear Natasha,
I live in India and have a nine year old daughter. We recently discovered storynory. Now Nisha ( our daughter ) refuses to go to bed unless she has a storynory from Natasha. We all love your stories and the wonderful way you narrate them. The only complaint I have is that often your stories are so exciting that Nisha cannot sleep and wants another, and another and another story.
Keep up the great work that you are doing for children around the world.
Regards,
Milind
P.S. We looked up your picture on the net and we were pleased to see that you are as beautiful as your voice!
Just to say that we are thrilled to receive the lovely comments that have been coming from all over the world recently, including India, Morocco, and Sudan. We are actively looking for some Indian stories at the moment and are currently looking at Birbal. Suggestions for stories from all parts of the world are always welcome.
Bertie
I notice that you are using Google adsense on your site.One of the ads was for ‘gay books’ - not sure if you care one way or the other but I thought you should know.
Cathy,
Thanks for letting us know. We can only ban a Google Adsense ad if we know more exactly which site it clicks through to. I don’t think “gay books” are the end of the world for us - but they aren’t really what Google’s contextual advertising is supposed to send to a children’s story site.
We thought people were more likley to complain about the new banner ads at the top of the pages.
Always useful to know what people think about these things.
Storynory
Cathy,
I think I have spotted the offending ad and have banned it. It might take a few hours to take effect.
Thanks!
P.S Sorry your comment got automatically kicked into moderation… ironically we filter “naughty” words in comments!
I’ve written an update on Google Adsense
http://storynory.com/2007/02/22/google-adsense-going-wonky/
Thanks again Cathy for pointing this out, and to those who wrote to us.
I just want to congratulate you on this wonderful site. I am an EFL teacher in Argentina who will certainly profit from you mp3 files. I will surely visit you very often for updates. Thank you!!
I just want to say a big thank you to Carmen H, Tina H, Michelle (who wrote that lovely story about the ice doll), Melenie, Sally, Alice, Rachel, Sham, Jeny (who is a very regular commenter), Winly, (I will find those texts for your soon, promise), Rita and others for all your lovely comments.
It seems like a group of you have been listening to all the Bertie stories today, and we are so pleased that you like them, and know all the characters so well, including their many faults. If they were perfect and good, it would be hard to make the stories funny, of course.
Thank you!
Dear Carmen And Tina,
Thank you for your sympathy. Life isn’t always easy being a frog, especially when you are in love with a beautiful princess. It’s a good thing that Sadie sees the romance in my situation or I might despair. As for that Colin, you are quite right, he can’t make any wishes come true, and all he ever does is grumble.
Brilliant, stories for my children at bedtime in a beautiful English accent. My son was UK born but is slowly becoming an Auz. We will listen to lovely Natasha as they drift off to sleep each night.
Great, Lovely british accent from the rather nice looking Natasha. I will enjoy listening to them with my children as they drift off to sleep - ignore the critics
comments are going through even if you are seeing some strange lines appear - working on this
Having trouble seeing your archives - trying to find the Littlest Tree?
Thank you
Kathy
Kathy, I think the archives are working ok now. Thanks for letting us know.
hi nice site.
hi
can i request that the “special effects” be minimal? The great thing about StoryNory is the quality of the *story* and the expressive delivery. We don’t need echos, reverbs and such. Simpler is better, as far as my kids and i are concerned.
Thanks for listening.
Hello Michael,
Thanks for your comments about the special effects. They are on the whole fairly minimal, but we take your point. Natasha’s delivery is what people love most. We think the fx nice on the 12 Dancing Princesses - perhaps they weren’t strictly necessary on the Billy Goats Gruff.
All the best
Storynory
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I am a 28 years old teacher in Taiwan. I found your podcast by accident and LOVE to listen to your stories. To be honest, I use this to practice my English listening. I want to say: Natasha, you’re a great storyteller, keep up the good work!!Thanks for your stories~~
My daughter is 6 years old and has always loved being told stories; especially at bedtime. Since we discovered Storynory we have been able to listen to the wonderful stories until she (or both of us) falls asleep. The spoken word is much more powerful that television as it fires the imagination. Keeping it simple is the key and you have just the right balance.
Wonderful stuff Natasha, a hint of Welsh accent?
Steve and others - thank you for your lovely comments.
You are the first to mention the accent - it’s Cardiff.
Natasha
Your stories are wonderful - you have by far the best children’s content that I have found on the web and your podcasted stories have my six year old twins (and I) mesmerised whenever we are travelling in the car. I love the variety of stories you tell, classic and modern, happy and sad, short and long. You are an accomplished storyteller and you bring such life to all these tales. keep up the great work!
oops above comment correction. Thank you people for stories read wonderfully.
Duncan, Monica - all other comment leavers - you are most welcome and so glad you like the stories. Thank you for your encouragement.
Thanks for doing your jobs with excellence. My daughters and I enjoy a story every day of the week. The selection is grand and you include Bible stories - thanks! Keep up the great work! - new fans:)
Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks
I am sooooo DISAPPOINTED that you’ve gone to MP4 file format! The files are no longer portable in my MP3 player!
Since I don’t intend to by a new player that will play MP4, I guess I won’t be sharing these stories with my kids any more.
Why did you do it? Proprietary reasons? Please, consider making MP3 versions available.
Daniel Do not despair. We have both ! Mp3 of Little Red Riding hood is here.
http://storynory.com/2007/06/03/little-red-riding-hood-2/
The mp4 is to play pics on an iPod.
Please keep listening, can get in touch if you have any more questions or comments.
Hi, I happen to find this interesting website ,what you have done really impress me. I am looking for the short English stories which suit 6 month English learner, do you have any?
The stories here are great,but somehow to long and difficult, do you have more simple one?
Nguyen Huy Tung
I hope these will suit your needs for learning English. These two are simple stories with contemporary English
Harry and Rosie Take the Train
Big Sister’s Clothes
You can find them here:
http://storynory.com/category/modern-stories/
Of the Traditional Stories, I suggest
Red Riding Hood
Billy Goats Gruff
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
You can find them under the Stories Tab at the top of the site. Hope you Enjoy them.
Nathasia and fellas of storynory.com,
This is the greatest site I’ve found that allow my entire family to share precious moment in common which low income family, especially single father could afford. Thank You again.
Jong, Thank you. We are really pleased that you and your family enjoy Storynory.
I liked the cyclops cave story. It was very scary.
Not the stories, but the web site: The links change text size when you hover over them. A truly terrible idea! It makes the text around it jump around, which is very disconcerting. There are lots of other ways to make a link stand out when you hover over it.
My parents read about this in the Wall Street Journal.
What a great website. We love the stories!
Thank you
On the home page, there appears to be a margin issue. Can’t read all the print. Looking forward to introducing this to my daughter.
Natalie Thank you for pointing out the sloping margin, which is fixed now. Hope your daughter enjoys Storynory.
i love the podcast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have really loved your stories. My daughter (6)askes for them every time she gets in the car. Thank you for making these available to us.
what can i say - absolutely fantastic, keep up the great work guys
I babysit for a number of families, and all of them love Storynory! They have come to know and love the characters and ask for their favorite stories by name. It is so nice for me to be able to put on a story in the car, and have them settle in to hear about Tick Tock Turkey’s latest adventure. Thank you so much for giving them (and ME!) something to look forward to in the car. Storynory.com is wonderful!
Austin That great. We really like to hear how the word gets round about Storynory, and we hadn’t realised before that baby sitting is one way our stories spread from family to family. Thanks !
I heard about your fabulous site through one of my RSS feeds on literature. I downloaded three of the stories and they ran without a hitch. I love listening to the Frog Prince story told in Natasha’s delightful accent. Have you considered adding a story for kids about preparing for a hospital visit?
It would be a wonderful resource for young children who are facing chemotherapy or other treatments and love stories, but are too young or ill to read. Keep up the great work and I look forward to hearing more great stories.
Lisa - thank you for the nice comments and the suggestion about the hospital visit story.
hi, i love your web site and listening to your stories. i want to suggest one of my favorite stories. the bremen town musicians. i think you would do a wonderful job telling it.
Thanks for the suggestion about the Bremen Town Musicians by the Brothers Grimm. Great suggestion and we’ll put it on the list to do over the next month to 6 weeks or so.
Lewis has just been given an iTeddy as a gift, and it is brilliant for downloading storynory stories on to! He can now listen to his storynory stories coming from his very own iTeddy! So thank you very much indeed Storynory! I will recommend your website to all Lewis’ friends!
Thank You Thank You Thank You for these wonderful stories! We took our 3 children (6, 3 & 1) on a car trip and listened to Storynory most of the 12 hour ride. Mom and Dad enjoyed them too!
Lisa and other recent commenters
Thanks ever so much. It’s lovely to know that we kept you company on your car trip !
And Samantha and Lewis it was really interesting to learn about the iTeddy. Thanks for letting us know !
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The stories, and… the site is more far good than I expected. Now I can take my little kid to bed and give him some wonderful stories.
many thanks.
Love your site and my children love your stuff even more
One slight jarring note - in the Tim the Tadpole vidcast you spelt starring as “staring”, which required a little explaining to do to my pedantic child!
But please keep up the great work
Alan,
Thank you. Apologies that one of my spelling mistakes has crept in to such a prominent place on the video. I try to keep them at bay, but they have a way of creeping in. I’m suprised nobody pointed this out before ! I’ll have to remix the titles, so I can’t fix it till a little later.
My daughter Ella (aged 3 and a half!) and I adore Natasha, Prince Bertie, Tim et al. I upload the stories on my ipod and we listen to the stories in the car in the morning when I drop Ella off to the childminder on the way to work. We talk about the stories then at bed time and they really fire her imagination.
What a wonderful site this is. Keep up the great work
Sonia - thanks for your lovely comment. It’s great to hear that Ella enjoys Storynory. It’s always useful to know who’s listening, when and how. Thanks too to the other recent commentators. I’ll make sure Natasha sees them.
This website is great! Thank you!
Love your stories! My 6 year old son asks me to turn on your stories every morning at breakfast. We enjoy your lovely voice and great story telling abilities!
Thank you!
Thank´s a lot for this site! I need improve my English and this is great chance! I´ll say my friends about this site, because it´s looks very nice!
we’re sitting here in the english lesson and we listened to the story cinderella. it was very interesting and nice. natasha’s voice was very great!
greeting from bavaria in germany
I love all the stories on story nory. Every week I count down the days until I get to hear a new story I think about it all week. But becaus I finish school at five I put them on at night so I dream of a story every night.
I think my favourite story is Kissa the cat I love the bit where she takes the princess to her hut and uses all sorts of different things to cure the princess. I think its funny how she uses her tail for her crop I can see it but I think it would be very uncoftable!
I would like to say a really big thank you to Natsha and bertie they must get tierd reading all these storys but I think prince berties pond and palace would be a really nice place to live. It would be good to find more infomation about prince’s turning into frogs and how to turn them back.
Someday it might happen bertie and then colin the carp would understand it is good to be royal and then stop making grumpy coments to you! I hope it does happen one day bertie!
Mollie,
It is lovely of you to say such nice things about Storynory, and it makes it all worth while for us to know how much you enjoy the stories.
This website is great . It bring me my memory back .Not only kid enjoy them .You really contribute a lot!
My daughter, Kate, is 4, and completely loves these stories. She listened to them a couple times during her “quiet time” in the afternoon, and finally insisted on listening to storynory every day. She quotes them often, like after a dinner at Grandma’s, when she was saying how stuffed she was, then suddenly turned to me with a grin and said, “It’s a little rude to say ’stuffed,’ it’s more polite to say, ‘replete.’” This she learned from Tick Tock Turkey.
Dear Prince Bertie,
Natasha tells me about you. So, that makes me curious of what you look like. And she tells me the stories you command her to tell us. I like the story of the frightened wich and also Agent Bertie and also Tick Tock Turekey and the Mysterious Egg, and I also like all the other stories. Thank you for all the stories.
Love,
Kate (4 yrs.)
Dear Kate, So glad you enjoy the stories.
You are quite right : “replete” is a more polite word than “stuffed” !
If you are wondering what I look like, we do have a few pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/storynory/sets/72157601976795225/
We stumbled upon Storynory through Itunes. We drove from our home in San Francisco to Los Angeles (7 hours in the car) and listened to stories almost the entire time.
Our five-year old daughter has started saying “bye bye” with a British accent like Natasha.
Natasha, you are a FANTASTIC storyteller. Your voice is so animated. My daughter wants to tell you “Thank you Natasha. I think your stories are wonderful, I’ll see you next time. Bye bye.”
Hello Laurel and Family,
Thanks ever so much for your kind words.
Bye ! Bye !
hello!! well i’m not a native speaker so i loooove the stories they really help me! thank you vey much it’s a wonderful site.
Hello,
This is a wonderful site and a parent’s and child’s delight alike! I do wish though that your index listed the length of the audio or suggested the intended age group so that parents could skip right to the appropriate stories, rather than skip in the middle of a story.
Thank you for all the effort that goes into the site!
Hina M
Hi Hina
It’s a great suggestion about how to improve the index, but it’s a big task to implement right away. We might start with listing a few stories for certain age groups. At the moment there’s quite a bit to do for Christmas, but we’ll definately keep your suggestion in mind.
THANK YOU the Storynory staffs soooo muchhh !!! I love this site, I just started my teaching career for 2 months at an English Center in Viet Nam, I teach English listening lesson and I couldn’t find a good American accent story-teller audio anywhere in Ha Noi audio shop for my students. I was sooo glad when I found this site, Natasha’s voice is sweet, amazing and so attractive. My students love her voice and we’re looking forward for a new story soon.
My Best Regards,
Ngoc Anh
I love StoryNory!!! Oh, yeah, so do my kids, ages 5, 3 and 2. I have them jammed across the back seat of the car and usually endure much bickering, pinching, poking, etc. With StoryNory on, there was complete silence for an HOUR!!! Punctuated by cries of ‘next one! next one! make it play them all!!!’.
Which brings me a to a quick ipod question.
Does anyone know where they’ve hidden the setting to make an ipod play all episodes of a podcast, one after another, like it will all tracks on an album or playlist? It’s kind of dangerous trying to navigate the ipod menu to get the next episode started doing 110kph down the motorway!
If you know the secret, please email me - mychudsonATgmailDOTcom
Hi Monique
So glad that Storynory brings peace and quiet to the back of your car.
To answer your question about getting an iPod to play tracks one by one, I think you might have to set up a play list from within iTunes, and then re-sync.
When I’ve had a moment to experiment with my iPod I’ll email you.
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hi there,
the first christmas read by John Le Mesurier is excellent, all classes in our school love it. are there ary other stories read by him? i use an interactive whiteboard in the class and have made up a powerpoint presentation to accompany this story………the result is magical!
thanks to the team for all the hard work which they put into this site…..u make a lot of children.. and adults very happy…..well done!
mary
Dear Mary,
We love to hear that our stories are being used in schools - so thank you. There are 6 John Le Mesurier Bible stories in all on the site, and they can all be found on this page:
http://storynory.com/category/bible-stories/
Hi,
My two daughters have enjoyed the two stories the have listened to from your website.
My elder wanted me to check if you the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Well done, we have just started using your website and it is a great resource for kids.
I’ve heard better stories but these were ok if you ask me.
When I came across this site and showed my boyfriend the picture of Peter, chills went down his spine! He remembered that exact poem from his childhood and it still gives him the creeps! Well done with the reading. I am a teacher and I will be sharing this site as a great resource!
Is there anyway that we can group the stories by age as some are more suitable for younger children and some are suitable for older children
thanks
I, along with my 3 and 5 year old children, just discovered Storynory on iTunes. It has instantly joined my select pantheon of favorite gifts — gifts like Google, This American Life, Pandora, and now Storynory — that make me happy to be alive here and now. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
thanx to storynory excellent site.
thanq so much
pLEASE ADD SOME VERY SHORT STORY.
THANQ SO MUCH
pLEASE ADD SOME VERY SHORT STORIES
Thanks so much for this service. As an educator and a mom, its so fantastic to see my kids enjoying these stories so much. I subscribe through itunes but wanted to stop by and let you know how much we love the audiobooks….keep up the good work! Youre the best audiobook podcast for children we’ve found!
i am a preschool teacher and i am sure my children are going to enjoy the short stories. these will be great for their audiotory skills and the stories are great too. keep up the great work and let more keep coming. the short ones especially.
Why do all audio stories for kids that I find on the internet have to be narrated by some English person with an accent so thick that it is difficult for an adult to understand let alone a primary student???
Dear Anon
Sorry you don’t like Natasha’s English accent. Lots of people do. If you would like to hear an American Accent, then pop over to Light Up Your Brain and Chuck Brown:
http://lightupyourbrain.com/index.html
Bye !
I like these stories and it’s a really great idea but I think maybe the vocabulary is sometimes too complex for younger listeners. I think you should try to use everyday words instead of clever comparisons.My children are 4 and 7 and they like to listen together 7 year old can just about get it but 4 year old is totally unclear and needs me to explain words, I listen and explain but that means I can’t let them listen alone. Otherwise a nice twist on original stories. Natasha has a lovely voice calming and interesting the perfect mix.
My daughter loves the stories. She got a Sansa Shaker for Christmas and can’t wait for the new podcast each week.
Thanks so much for doing this.
My brother wanted to know who Circe was. so I tried to tell the story but this was much more fun for him to listen to it! Thanks for the free stories!
THANK YOU!!!!! My daughter got the Fisher Price fp3 player for Christmas and is tired of all the stories it came with. FP offers stories, but they are not free and I can’t afford them right now as a single mom. Thank you for making these available! We love them!
Hi Sherron,
Thanks, that’s really interesting.
I think a lot of kids got mp3 players for Christmas. We really take love and care over stories, so I hope they are better than the paid for ones !
thank you… this is a great gift for parent like me.
Finally a site which bring me back to my chilhood days. Am loving all the stories and am looking forward to more exciting ones…….
Its a packaged beautifully wrapped.
I love`d all you`r story`s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I love`d all you`r story`s, can you Natasha and Bertie send me a letter .I love you guy`s !!!!!!
Please record Pinnoccio.
I found storynory recently and my 6 year old loves it! I’ve also started printing the stories too so she can read along! She also has a printed photo of Natasha (taken off the site - sorry!) - she’s becoming a member of the family! :o)
Absolutely great site and I’m giving site details to her primary school to pass it on! Well done and keep up the good work!
Thank you so much. This was perfect when my son was sick and my voice gave out.
Fantastic website the stories are read wonderfully, and there are so many stories to choose from. My 2 year old loves to listen to them whist drifting off to sleep highly recommended Thankyou so much JJJ&J Wirral Merseyside
I love this site and will recommend it to all my friends with children.
My son LOVES Tick-Tock Turkey. Please tell me there are more Turkey stories to come soon! He knows the 4 already by heart! Love your site!!!
My son LOVES Tick-Tock Turkey. Please tell me there are more Turkey stories to come soon! He knows the 4 already by heart! Love your site!!!
Hi there
We are not quite sure about the next Tick Tock - he’s a bit in limbo, but hopefully he will make a return every now and then.
thanks 4 u r story because of it i got 10 marks out of 15
Hi Komal - well done on your marks !
We enjoy your site. Well done. The grandkids love it.
I love the story when is your next story coming?
Dear Anjuma
There will be a new story on Sunday evening London time - it will be a story from India about a Tiger - and there are over 100 stories under the stories tab at the top of the site
V glad you enjoyed the story. Many thanks !
I would love to see you do the Three Little Pigs
Thank you so much for this labor of love. My son and I have a 45 minute commute together, and listening to stories helps him survive it! (I was running out of stories to answer the request, “Tell me about when you were little and you did bad things and got in trouble.”
Hi Hugh
This is an amazing site.So glad i discovered it.We are spoilt for choice.Will be telling my home educating families about it. Many thanks.
Best of luck.
Regards
Sabina
sabinam@hotmail.co.uk
Dear Natasha,
We were just listening to Hansel and Gretel. We love you, and your stories! You’re the best reader- even better than our mom.
Love, Toby (6yrs old) and Max (3 yrs old).
My sons and I love your site. But I don’t see a “search” feature. For example, my son wanted a story about “Knights.” I wanted to search by key word, but could not find it. Do you have such a feature? Thanks.
Hi Beth
Really glad you like the site. We do have a search form in the right hand side bar. The only story we have about knights at the moment is St. George. Hope this helps.
It’s hard to overstate how nice a gift these stories for our family. They are exceptionally well read, well chosen (or written). My kids love them and so do I. I’m downloading another batch for our train ride today from Aberdeen to Edinburgh.
wild praise and thanks for your work
I love stor ynory.com.Itis a fantastic website for children.My friend gave me this website and now I have grown to love this website.
This site is great
Thank you so much for these stories, I can’t wait for the next ones!
my daughter LOVES your stories. I have two suggestions of improvements that could be made.
1) i wish i could get more than 30 on the itunes site so I could download some of the older ones.
2) more importantly, the audio production is inconsistent. sometimes the stories are extremely loud and others very soft. My daughter listens to them as she falls asleep and she will be comfortably listening to something and then when the story changes it will suddenly be blasting.
thanks.
Hi Heather,
Many thanks for your comments and suggestions.
It is possible to get our older stories into iTunes using the individual category feeds which are in the archive pages. This is a new feature since the redesign a month or so ago.
There’s more help on doing this on this page under “get individual category feeds”
http://storynory.com/2008/04/22/help-using-itunes
We do try to keep the volume of the stories consistent - so apologies if you’ve come across some loud ones. I know there are a few inconsistencies - especially among the older stories.
If there are any really terrible examples, please email me on bertie@storynory.com. Also if you need any more help getting the older stories into iTunes, drop me a line.
Wow! What an awesome website! I have downloaded all of your stories and plan to use them in my classroom.
this site is interstibg. i like “THE GIRL WHO MISSED CHRISTMAS” it is so interesting.
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It is a wonderful audio site. We love Natasha
story telling. I wish you have more stories for my 11 year-old boy, who prefer listen to stories more than reading it. He loves “the book without words–a fable of medieval magic ”
Many thanks to make your site available to all of us to share
I like the stories its nice for a four year old well pls keep adding new stories always that would add more and more children to ur website and try to give video as well
that would be great ………………….
would keep visiting ur site to check that out
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WOW,WOW,WOW!!!! What an amazing site this is that I’m just discovered. We are taking a ten hour car trip with young children and I’m sure these stories will help us then, as well as make for great times in the future as they grow older. THANK YOU!!!! Natasha is a brilliant story reader.