Some of Storynory’s most charming tales are in verse. We draw on the Victorian poets whose verse is still fresh and amusing. Edward Lear’s nonsense poems, Robert Browning’s verse-fairy tale, Marry Howitt and others.
If you want to know just how cool dinosaurs are, you should listen to this poem by Giles Paley-Phillips. And there’s a domestic drama in The Bump in the Rug
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea… And when the Sieve turned round and round, And every one cried, ‘You’ll all be drowned!’ They called aloud, ‘Our Sieve ain’t big, But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig! By Edward Lear.
“Please give me a ride on your back,” Said the Duck to the Kangaroo: “I would sit quite still, and say nothing but ‘Quack’. From Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense.
Ipod Video: A slide show that syncs the beautiful illustrations of Kate Greenaway with Robert Browning’s Poem read by Natasha of Storynory. This version will play on a Video iPod and in iTunes and Quicktime.
The famous story of the greatest rat-charmer of all time. Verse by Robert Browning. Natasha’s reading is synced to the beautiful illustrations of Kate Greenaway (1846 - 1901).