I succumbed to Potter fever and hopped along to the cinema to spend a rainy Saturday afternoon watching the latest Harry Flick,  The Order of the Phoenix. What I like about HP’s magic is that it is so psychological.   In order to scare off demons, you have to conjure up your happiest moment in […]

“The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane…” So begins the most eagerly awaited novel of 2007. The internet is a kind of witchcraft, and it’s amazing what you can conjure up if you look hard enough. This is a picture of the not yet released Harry […]

One thing we love to read about on the blogosphere, is that Storynory is being used in Schools (and home schools too).We we are really pleased that Primary School UK has included Natasha’s reading of the Pied Piper by Robert Browning in their Pied Piper planning resource.

Rats are strong contenders to make it into my Room 101 (along with the boring meetings that also inspired author George Orwell to come up with this symbol for ratty nightmares in his novel 1984). So I find it strange indeed that the latest hit animation, Ratatouille, features a rat who stars in the Kitchen […]

Just for fun, I thought I would put “Storynory” into the search box of Facebook. In case you don’t know, Facebook is a social network that is all the rage. To my great delight, I found that there are already groups set up by Storynory fans for Storynory fans. Storynory isn’t just for little kids […]

This is one of several lively stories by Ella-Rose, aged 7. By coincidence the heroine is also called Ella-Rose and is 7 years old.

Our listener Barbara Imbrie  wrote a lovely story for her 8–year-old grandson about a cat who was a afraid of mice.   We are pleased to publish the enjoyable text under our “Your Stories” section.

By Barbara Imbrie (who wrote this for her 8 year old grandson) Afraid of mice? You really wouldn’t have expected it. His father, Tom Cat, was a famous mouse catcher. He had even won a blue ribbon at the county fair for catching the most mice in the shortest time—ten in ten minutes. And his […]

There’s a really nice mention of Storynory in the Wall Street Journal today. For bedtime stories, just press play By YING WU June 16, 2007; Page P2 For families on long car trips, there’s a new boredom killer: free podcasts of children’s stories. The tales come from London-based Storynory, which offers them on its Web […]

I’d like to thank all the blogs who link to us – sorry we can’t link back to you all. It’s very helpful for us to gather some insight into how you listen to Storynory – and we do read and follow what you say. It makes us feel we know you. This is one […]