60 Results for : gordh
-
Little Ant and the Lion: A Myanmarese (Burmese) Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 13min
Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. Lion was declared king and invited all the animals to come for a greeting, so he could thank them all. Little Ant was representing all the ants and she was so excited she got up extra early and got to the greeting place before any other animals. She didn't care. She would just wait, but soon a monkey came who did not think a tiny ant should be the first in line and picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. This happened again and again as animal after animal felt that no little ant should be in front of it. Ant was last and by the time ant got up to the lion king, the king was too tired and he did not eve greet Little Ant. She went home sad. Time went by and the king got an ear ache. It was a tiny worm in his ear. He called in the animals, but they were all too big to reach in his ear. So they all figured that Little Ant was the only one who could help. Then they all remembered how mean they were to Little Ant. They all went together and apologized to Little Ant and asked her to help the King. He then offered his apologies and she agreed to help. She retrieved the worm and everyone celebrated her big littleness. From then on ants can live anywhere. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017057/bk_adbl_017057_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
The First Maori Fishing Net: A New Zealand Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 8min
Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. The village is next to the lagoon. The people fish with spears standing in the shallow waters. Time goes by and they are not getting any fish. They don't know what to do. They go to their chief. He seems to be in a dream and does not offer them any suggestions. Time goes by. Still no luck. One day the villagers watch as their chief goes across the beach and into the forest. The chief travels until he comes to a bay. There he sits behind a bush. He watches and a ghost ship comes sailing into the bay. You can see through the ship. Fairies are on the boat and they are fishing with a net. The chief has never seen a net before and watches as they catch many fish. They come to shore, haul in their fish and make a fire. They throw the net off to the side. The chief knows that the fairies will leave at dawn, so while they are dancing, he blows out the fire. They make the fire again and begin their dance again. He blows out the fire again. This happens again and again. They do not get to finish their dance or cook their fish. The sun is starting to rise and the fairies set off again in their ghost ship. The chief picks up the net and brings it back to the village. They have plenty of fish from then on and they do not question their chief when he is "dreaming". Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017997/bk_adbl_017997_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Jack and the Beanstalk: An English Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 30min
Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. Jack and his mother were having no luck on the farm. Jack was taking the cow into the village to sell it when he met a man who offered Jack some magical beans for the cow. Jack said, "Okay." When he came home, his mother got mad at him for making such a trade and threw the beans out the window. In the morning Jack woke to discover a huge beanstalk rising to the sky. He climbed it up into a cloud land. He walked on a path across the clouds to a great palace. Inside he discovered a huge woman. She was the ogre's wife. The ogre was coming home, and Jack hid in the oven. Ogre smelled Jack. "Fee fi fo fum." He ate, counted his gold, and fell asleep. Jack took a bag of gold and went home. They had gold that lasted a long time. Then Jack went back. Ogre's wife hid him again in the oven. Ogre came home, ordered his hen to lay its golden eggs, and fell asleep. Jack took the hen. He returned a third time and took the golden harp, which sang out when Jack ran away with it. The ogre woke up and followed. Jack got to the bottom of the beanstalk, and as the ogre was climbing down, Jack chopped through the beanstalk. The ogre came tumbling down, and that was the end of the ogre. Jack had a harp that sang and a hen that laid golden eggs. He and his mother were happy. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018014/bk_adbl_018014_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
The Woman who Jumped into the Sky: An Australian Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 11min
Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. A young woman named Pirili lived in a village. She was kind and generous. A hunter named Mangowa from another village saw her and wished to marry her. She did not wish to marry him. He brought gifts and food and flowers. He hunted just for her and brought her everything he caught. He did not bring food to his own. She still did not want to marry him. Her village ate the food. He brought the elders of her village food and gifts and asked permission to take her as his wife and take her with him. They loved all the food and agreed. Pirili did not want to go. He got mad, picked her up and began to carry her to his village. It is a long trip. When he reaches hill looking down on his village he realizes how long it has been and how he has not been bringing the people their the food he had always supplied. He got angry and threw Pirili to the ground. She got up and with all her strength jumped - up - up- up into the sky. She landed in the Milky Way where the star women lived. Mangowa leaped into the sky and began throwing stars. The stars came down to earth and made holes in the ground that became lakes and ponds. The star women grabbed Mangowa and threw him back down to earth and Pirili joined the sisters and became a star that we now see in the constellation of Orion. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017995/bk_adbl_017995_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
The Emerald Lizard: A South American Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 5min
Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. A sad man walks up the road. He stops when he sees an old man sitting on his porch. The old man asks what the trouble is. The sad man describes how he has lost everything. The old man sees a green lizard on a leaf and catches it. In his closed hand, the lizard is handed to the poor man, but it is no longer a green lizard. It has transformed into an emerald! The sad man is sad no more and returns to the town. There he sells the emerald and uses the money to start a shop. The shop does well, and the man prospers. Years go by. The man is now married, wealthy, and with a family. One day he wakes up and thinks of the old man and the lizard. He decides to go and find the emerald and return it to the told man. He locates the store and buys back the emerald. He walks down the road until he comes to the old man's house. There he is, much older but still sitting on his porch. The happy man tells the old man the story of how the old man's generosity changed the happy man's life. "I have brought you back the emerald!" The old man accepts the emerald and places it on a leaf - it becomes a lizard and runs off. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018001/bk_adbl_018001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
A Pot of Gold/Ants: A Chinese Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 5min
Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. There was a farmer who worked hard on his land for many years. He and his wife had a little farmhouse and ate their simple meals each night together. One evening the farmer ran down from the fields all excited. His next door neighbor saw the old farmer and wondered what was going on. He sneaked over to the old farmer's house and listened through the window. The farmer told his wife how he had spotted down in a hole full of rocks a kettle that was full of gold coins. It was too late in the day to move all the rocks, but he would in the morning, and they would have plenty! When the neighbor heard about the gold, he hurried up the hill to the farmer's field to get the gold for himself. Beneath the light of the full moon, he threw all the rocks out of the hole until he was holding the pot. He reached in to feel the gold coins. OUCH! Fire ants swarmed across his hand. The neighbor was angry. The farmer had tricked him. He took the pot and hurried down the hill. He climbed up onto the old farmer's house and cut a hole in the roof. The hole was right above the old couple, who had just gone to bed. The greedy neighbor called down to them, "Here's your pot of gold!" He dumped the pot, and gold coins tumbled out and covered the surprised and delighted old couple! Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017052/bk_adbl_017052_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
2 Tales of Juan Bobo: "The 3-Legged Pot" and "The Sleep-over": A Puerto Rican Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 8min
Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. Juan Bobo often gets mixed up. One day his mother sent him to his grandma's to borrow a cooking pot since his mother's had a crack in it. Juan ran to Grand ma's and asked her for a pot. Grandma gave him a three-legged pot - the kind that can stand over the fire and doesn't need a level surface. He started home but got tired along the way and stopped to rest. He set down the pot. He looked at the pot and noticed its three legs. He decided it wasn't fair that he was carrying a three-legged pot when he had only two legs himself. He challenged the pot to a race home. He determined that he should have a head start since he had only two legs. He began running. He got home and asked his mom if the pot had arrived. She said, "No." Juan Bobo declared, "I won!" Another time Juan Bobo was at a friend's house, and it began to rain. It was a heavy rain, and Juan worried about getting soaked on his way home. Since it was night, his friend invited him for a sleepover. Juan smiled. "That would be great!" he exclaimed. "I'll be right back." He ran into the night and the pouring rain. His friend waited and waited. Finally a very wet Juan Bobo returned. "Where have you been?" asked his friend. Juan smiled and said, "I went home for my pajamas." Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017038/bk_adbl_017038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Nasrudin and the Candle: A Middle Eastern Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 7min
Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folktale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. Nasruddin made a bet with some friends that he could stand all night long outside, in the middle of the square, with no clothes on. They all said it was too cold. They all decided that if he could make it through the night with no heat, they would make him dinner, and if he failed he would cook them dinner. He went into the square. As it got later, it got colder. Colder and colder and colder. Nasruddin was about to give up and go inside to get warm when he saw a candle in a window across the square. He concentrated on the candle and imagined its warmth. He made it through the night looking at the candle. The next morning he told his friends how he had made it through the night with the help of the candle. They told him he should cook them dinner since he used the candle to keep warm. Nasruddin said, "Okay". The friends came over for dinner. Every half hour Nasruddin went back into the kitchen to see if dinner was cooked. He returned shaking his head. "Not ready yet." After several hours the friends told him that the food had to be cooked by then. He showed them into the kitchen. On the floor was a single lit candle. Suspended from the ceiling was a pot of stew. Nasruddin said, "If a candle can keep me warm all night, surely it can cook your dinner." The friends agreed to fix dinner. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018007/bk_adbl_018007_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
The Story Bag: A Korean Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 12min
Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folktale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. The wealthy young man and all his family and servants are preparing for his wedding. Later in the day, he will travel by horseback to his fiancée's family's home for the ceremony. One old servant hears a noise down the hall from the kitchen. He sees the story bag where the young man used to store his stories when he was a little boy. He loved stories so much. The stories are angry about being left behind and forgotten about. They are planning to hurt the young man. One story says it will transform into a bush with red berries the young man will see on his way and not be able to resist stopping and eating, and the berries will be poisonous! Another says it will become a spring of fresh-looking water that will also be poison. Another story says it will become a sharp piece of glass and hide beneath the straw where the young man will step off his horse. Another says it will become a ball of poisonous snakes and hide in the wedding bed. The old servant runs outside and asks the young man to accompany him to the wedding. When the young man asks to stop for the red berries and then later for a drink of water, the old servant pretends to misunderstand and keeps going. When the young man climbs off his horse, the old servant elbows the horse so it throws the young man off but not on the sharp glass. After he is married and in the bridal chamber, the old servant interrupts and chops the bed in half, killing all the poisonous snakes. The young man asks what is going on. The old servant explains about the story bag. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017054/bk_adbl_017054_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Hare and Hyena: An East African Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 10min
Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. Hare and Hyena are great friends and decide to start a farm together. They will have a garden and buy 10 cows for milk. They share the work. One day one tends the garden, milks the cows when they come in and fixes dinner. The other watches the cows all day in the fields. This works for a long time. One day Hyena watches the cows and when Hare milks, no milk comes out. When Hare watches the cows, there is plenty of milk. This happens over and over again. Hare begins to suspect Hyena is milking the cows during the day and drinking the milk. Hyena says he is doing his job watching the cows. So Hare sneaks behind him one day and watched Hyena and sure enough, Hyena is drinking all the milk. Hare is mad. The next day, Hare takes the cows, goes into the field, cuts their tails off, and sticks the tails into the mud so that it looks like the tails are sticking up out of the mud. Hare then hides the cows in the woods. Hare runs down to Hyena saying the cows have fallen into the mud and that he is not strong enough to pull them out. Hyena to the rescue, but every time, Hyena pulls on a tail he ends up with it in his hand and Hare cries out, "Oh no, you pulled off its tail!" This happens 10 times. They decide that since there are no cows left, they have no reason to keep the farm together, so Hyena takes off. Hare calls the cows and has plenty of milk from then on. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018003/bk_adbl_018003_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping