Background to the story of Helen of Troy and the Trojan War

We announced Storynory to the world around this time last year (after quietly posting a few stories to stock up the archive). Since then, we’ve kept our promise and published a new story every week, no matter what. Several of our first stories were Chrismtasy ones, and we expect that they will be new to […]

Answers.com has some interesting background on Kipling’s Just So Stories: “Many of the stories are addressed to “Best Beloved” (they were first written for Kipling’s eldest daughter, Josephine, who had died during an outbreak of influenza in 1899), and throughout they use a comically elevated style inspired by the formal speech of India, full of […]

Storynory is a truly international site. The map provided by Google Analytics shows our visitors from all over the world over the past week. A couple of weeks ago, an ISP in New Zealand recommended us to their customers, and we welcomed a flood of Kiwis. In the last few days, we have been glad […]

It was the greatest tea-party since the Mad Hatter’s in Alice’s Adventures Wonderland. The Queen invited 2000 children into her garden to celebrate her 80th birthday. Red Coated guards in busbies welcomed the guests playing “They are changing the guards at Buckingham Palace.” Chimney Sweeps danced on the palace roof top. The heroes and baddies […]

Here’s a lovely project by a father and son, who just happen to be listeners of Storynory. Alex and the Sleep Monster explains why children need sleep, and why teeth sometimes go missing in the night. Adrian Marsden has used photographs and artwork by his four year old son, Alex, and superimposed his verse fairy […]

Joseph Jacobs, the author of English Fairy Tales of 1890, (including Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Little Pigs) revived interest in English folklore.

The Gingerbread Man Once upon a time there was an old man, an old woman, and a little boy. One morning the old woman made some gingerbread in the shape of a man. She added icing for his hair and clothes, and little blobs of dough for his nose and eyes. When she put him […]

Storynory – the kid’s story podcast – is site of the week in LIFE magazine in the US

The Loch Ness Monster might really be an elephant sticking his trunk out of the water, according to a new theory. The monster, known as “Nessy” has been spotted down the ages in the Scottish lake known as “Loch Ness.” Nobody has been able to prove that Nessy really exists, and that people haven’t been […]