Storytelling for Children
Leo and Sundara perform children’s stories with music at The Dragon Sanctuary. These stories seek to convey a positive, uplifting and life-affirming message.
Leo has been storytelling since 1989. Sundara has been playing music since she was a child and now plays handpans, flutes and harmonium. Leo plays guitar and sometimes they sing together too. They have been setting stories to music together for over 20 years.
Their work can be found on Palace of Stories, where you can find over 100 free audio stories for children, as well as learn to tell your own Intuitive Stories for the children in your life.
Previously heard at The Dragon Sanctuary
Magical Story Gems
One day a little girl discovered old woman living in the forest in a cottage filled with magical gems. What sort of magic was in those gems? Story-magic! Each one of them was filled with stories, and just the right stories for whoever most needed them….
The Beauty Book
A girl discovers her grandfather reading his “Beauty Book”, a scrapbook where he keeps mementos of the most beautiful and meaningful moments of his life. At the end of telling her the stories therein he makes a sketch of her and puts it in the Beauty Book too! But the girl is confused. “Why would he make a picture of me, just reading his book? What’s so beautiful about that?” She only answers that question much later in life, when she creates her own Beauty Book, and shares it with her own daughter…
The Gardener’s Golden Grass Clippings
One day the King’s gardener finds gold in the most unexpected place while tending the palace gardens. Should he tell the King or keep it to himself?
Listening to the Birds
A girl always had a little bird following her around. Wherever she was, whatever she was doing, this little bird seemed to want to get her attention.
In time she learns to understand its messages, and this knowledge saves her tribe from destruction.Â
The Farmer’s Gifts
One day, on her way to market, the farmer found a thin young girl standing by the side of the road. “Please miss, you’ve got so much food on your cart! Could you share some with me and my family, we’re all starving hungry!” What happens next doesn’t just help the girl and her family, it changes the farmer’s life too!
Claire’s Unbreakable Hair
Once there was a girl whose hair could not be cut. Her mother tried scissors, which only broke! Her father tried an axe. Same thing! But why? Why is she the only girl with magical hair? It takes a meeting with a wise old woman and many more adventures before she discovers what her hair is really for.
Molly’s Treasure Hunt
Molly is a small girl who one day loses her balloon. Chasing it through the streets she encounters one person after another and deeply affects them, just by being herself. In the end Molly discovers something even more lovely than a balloon, maybe you can guess what it is?
For upcoming Storytelling for Children at The Dragon Sanctuary, see the Events page.