Kathleen Pelley. audio story podcaster, children's author
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Journey with Story is a storytelling podcast for kids ages 3-10. These audio stories are told with a Celtic flavor and calming voice of Scottish author, Kathleen Pelley. She shares fairy tale stories, bedtime stories, classic stories, and her own original children's audio stories.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kathleen Pelley makes folklore approachable through clear narration, useful context, playful repetition, and well-placed invitations for children to predict what happens next.
Journey with Story - A Storytelling Podcast for Kids lets Kathleen Pelley carry the whole room, moving from one narrated tale to the next while keeping each plot easy to follow.
A blue cap whirls a lost fisherman away; Kathleen Pelley has your story hour well in hand.
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A warm omnibus of myths and folktales for a winter sit-down.
This winter omnibus lands as a cozy, firelit listen, with Kathleen Pelly guiding families through the month's episodes in one sitting. It moves from Zeus and the titans making the first animals and first men from clay, to a spider saved from a snake and tied to the soft white…
A winter-themed omnibus that settles in as a warm, family-friendly listen.
Journey with Story offers a winter omnibus that feels made for a quiet evening, with Kathleen Pelly setting up a single sitting of tales for dark, dreary months and a warm fire.
An omnibus of gentle stories that moves from a rainforest fable to playful verse and a tale about why the sea is salty.
Journey with Story gathers this month's episodes into a single omnibus listen, moving from the hermit and the two worms into playful verse and a tale about why the sea is salty.
A calm omnibus edition that gathers several tales into one easy sitting.
Kathleen Pelley presents this special omnibus edition of Journey with Story as a single sitting of this month’s episodes, moving from Why Ducks Sleep on One Leg to Crow and the story stone, then to Why mosquitoes buzz around our ears, with a final witch-and-mouse tale at the…
A field notebook in audio form.
True crime with a live-wire conscience.
Comedy tangents with too many witnesses.
East End culture, told close-up.
Fast quests for story-hungry kids.
Kathleen Pelly narrates a Norwegian folktale about a kind-hearted boy who gives his jacket to a cold stone, discovers an 'honest penny,' and through a series of magical events with a merchant and a cat named Grumalkin, learns that selflessness ultimately brings greater rewards than selfishness.
Host Kathleen Pelley shares two contrasting cat poems from T.S.
This episode tells a folktale from Singapore about two poor widows who work hard growing rice and show kindness to everyone in their village.
Kathleen Pelly narrates a Swedish legend about a magical forest garden that blooms only on Christmas Eve.
Host Kathleen Pally shares an old Scottish folktale about the water horse of Loch Garve, who loves his wife so much that he builds her a fireplace underwater to keep her warm during the cold winters.
Host Kathleen Pelly tells a Vietnamese folktale about a poor fisherman who catches a magical golden fish, the princess of the sea, who gives him a salt grinder in exchange for his freedom.
Kathleen Pelley tells a Tibetan folktale about a tortoise who befriends a monkey in the forest, neglecting his family.
Kathleen Pelley narrates a Russian folktale about a poor farmer who shows kindness to Father Frost's three sons and receives magical sacks that control heat and cold.
Kathleen Pelly opens a winter omnibus by the fire.
A Scottish folktale about King Malcolm who receives a magical silver bowl engraved with 'give this to the one you love,' triggering a chain of gifts through the castle hierarchy.
Kathleen Pally tells an Irish folktale about Ursula, a beautiful but clumsy girl whose mother lies about her spinning skills to the prince.
A Latin American folktale about a king who becomes obsessed with touching the moon and commands his subjects to build an impossibly tall tower of wooden chests, leading to dramatic consequences when his hubris meets reality.
Host Kathleen Pelly tells an Irish folktale about lazy servants in County Kildare who take advantage of their master's absence, only to encounter a magical pooka—a shape-shifting creature—that cleans their kitchen each night.
Kathleen Pelly opens this special omnibus edition with an invitation to settle in by a cozy fire for a winter story session.
Kathleen Pelley shares a Native American Iroquois tale about how the four winds were named after different animals.
Kathleen Pelley opens a special omnibus edition and invites families to listen to the month's episodes in one sitting.
Kathleen Pelley welcomes listeners to a special omnibus edition of Journey with Story.
Kathleen Pelly tells a cautionary folktale from the Philippines about a hermit who transforms two worms into humans so they can teach people to respect the environment.
A silver bowl travels from King Malcolm to a kitchen maid through a chain of people who love others.
Kathleen Pelley shares a Filipino folktale about a giant crab king, Maga, who can't sleep and blames a chain of animals—frogs, snail, firefly, and mosquito—for disturbing him, leading to a mosquito's defiance and a swarm attack that explains why mosquitoes buzz around human ears today.
Kathleen Pelly narrates a Japanese folktale about a farmer named Yosaku who saves a spider from a snake.
Host Kathleen Pelly tells a Scottish folk tale about a husband and wife who have a silly argument about whether the world is all east or all west.
A storytelling episode featuring an Indian folktale about a foolish man named Guru Swami who argues with his wife about who is more foolish.
This episode retells the classic Greek myth of Pandora's Box, where Zeus creates Pandora and gives her a forbidden box as revenge on humans.
A children's storytelling podcast episode featuring a First Nations folktale about a girl learning from Cloud and Rain to save her people.
A storytelling podcast for kids presents a Korean folk tale about a boy whose kindness is repaid when he is in trouble.
A storytelling podcast for kids featuring a reading of Edward Lear's nonsense poem 'The Pobble Who Has No Toes' with a Celtic flavor.
A Scottish storyteller introduces a tale about a magic cap that helps a fisherman escape danger.
A storytelling podcast for kids presents a magical tale about frost fairies and winter magic.
Munna's one-grain rice request grows to 1,048,576 grains by the twenty-first day.
A storytelling podcast for kids featuring an encore Mother's Day episode with stories about what makes mamas happy.
A special omnibus edition of a storytelling podcast for kids, featuring a collection of this month's episodes with a Celtic flavor.
A storytelling podcast for kids featuring fairy tales, bedtime stories, and original tales with a Celtic flavor.
A storytelling podcast for children featuring Celtic-flavored fairy tales and bedtime stories narrated by a Scottish author.
Kathleen Pelley introduces a Christmas story by Hans Christian Andersen about a little fir tree who learns the dangers of envy and discontentment.