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Carl Sandburg was a favorite author in my house.  My parents loved his poetry and my mother loved to read us stories from “The Rootabaga Stories”.  Her favorite was “How The Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the Wind Blows It Away.”  My favorite is “How Bimbo the Snip’s Thumb Stuck to His […]

Did you grow up with this story?  Of course you did, as did I! When I started telling as a new storyteller the Three Billy Goats Gruff was a request story – one that children always wanted to hear. After so many retellings it has emerged as my favorite tale of group action to combat […]

This is another of Aesop’s well known fables. In a world of constant speed-up and multi-tasking, it is good to remember that “Slow and steady wins the race.” For more information about Robin Bady, please visit RobinBady.com The music from this podcast is “Before She Is Even Born – Variations on the Sher”, by Skip LaPlante, […]

I look for fables when I have a need to get a quick reminder of ancient wisdom.  They always help me find perspective. Such a story is Aesop’s fable, “The Body.”  Enjoy it on several different levels! For more information about Robin Bady, please visit RobinBady.com The music from this podcast is “Before She Is […]

A story for the harvest!  “The Little Red Hen: is one of the standard European folktales we tell to children, read to children and act out with children.  I always enjoy listening to it, reading it and of course telling it.  A question:  which one of the animals do you relate to most?  For more […]

Grapes…I have always loved grapes. These days we buy them from the Park Slope Food Co-op, organic, from Chile or some such place. I remember so fondly the Concord grapes taken fresh off the vine, warm and sweet in the sun, that my best friend Stephanie Argyris and I stole from her parents’ backyard grape […]

The animal stories of the fabulists Aesop and Jean La Fontaine are simple and profound. These fables are as relevant for us today as we go about our lives as they were in the times they were told and written. What are the truths you find in them? For more information about Robin Bady, please […]

This story is derived from a song from the Yiddish Theater, “I Had a Little Overcoat” or “Hob Ikh Mir a Mantl”. It is a popular story, for reasons you will understand when you hear it! There are many versions told by storytellers of different heritages, and two beautiful books for children (Something From Nothing, […]

The fables attributed to Aesop spoke to the silliness as well as the deep injustices in his world, and continue to do so in our world today. I particularly love this story, “A Bundle of Sticks.” I hope you do too! The music from this podcast is “Before She Is Even Born – Variations on […]

Let us start our storytelling journey in Chelm. For how can we go beyond Chelm if we have never been there in the first place? In eastern European Jewish folklore, the city of Chelm is a mythical municipality, the archetypical home of simpletons and fools. The population is befuddled, but sincere. Reality does not exist, […]

In this episode of The JCast Journey, host Darone Ruskay sits down with his dear friend Robin Bady. Robin Bady is an award-winning storyteller, and has also just launched her own podcast on JCast Network, Beyond Chelm in which she will be telling tales for all ages. In this episode, Darone and Robin talk about their […]

In this episode of Beyond Chelm with Robin Bady, master storyteller Robin Bady tells a wonderful tale from the Far East. This story entitled King Tumbo and Mr. Monk, tells the story of the Elephant King the wise silly monkey and the little mouse who got caught in his nose. The music from this podcast […]