# The Princess & the Frog πŸ‘ΈπŸΈ Bedtime Fairytale for Kids An episode of [Snuggle: Kids bedtime stories](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1714672018), 29 Dec 2024, 21 min. Audio: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/62969460/prod_snuggle_061.mp3 When a little princess loses her ball in a pond, a magical frog helps her β€” if she promises to be his friend and let him live in her palace. We hope you enjoy our rendition of this classic fairytale. Narrated by: Vanessa Labrie Written by: Laila Weir Welcome to Snuggle! The best kid's story-telling podcast. Enter a cozy world of imagination perfect for bedtime, quiet time, or any time you want to embark on an enchanting adventure. Learn more at slumberstudios.com/snuggle To enjoy ad-free listening and exclusive bonus episodes, start your 7-day free trial of Snuggle Premium: https://snuggle.supercast.com/ November only: try Premium free for 90 days. Ad-free listening and more at slumber.supercast.com ## Transcript [0:03] Speaker 1: Welcome to Snuggle Cozy stories for kids. This episode is [0:09] Speaker 1: called The Sleepy Tale of the Princess and the Frog. [0:15] Speaker 1: Snuggle is a production of Slumber Studios. To listen ad [0:19] Speaker 1: free and support the show, sign up for our premium feed. [0:26] Speaker 1: Hey friend, it's Tom. I'm so glad you're here for [0:30] Speaker 1: story time. It's always a pleasure to have you join [0:35] Speaker 1: us here on Snuggle. Today we have a lovely retelling [0:40] Speaker 1: of a classic fairy tale about a princess and a [0:44] Speaker 1: magical frog. It's a tale that children all over the [0:50] Speaker 1: world have enjoyed hearing or reading for hundreds of years, [0:57] Speaker 1: and now it's your turn. My friend Vanessa will be [1:03] Speaker 1: narrating it for us, so let's get nice and cozy. [1:10] Speaker 1: Whether you're ready for a full night's rest or you're [1:14] Speaker 1: just taking a break in your day, begin with a big, [1:20] Speaker 1: slow breath in, hold it for a moment, and then [1:28] Speaker 1: let it out gently. Well done. Now, cuddle up to [1:38] Speaker 1: your plush cushion or your covers, or maybe a soft teddy, [1:45] Speaker 1: because our story is about to start in a fairy [1:49] Speaker 1: tale kingdom on a special sleepy night. [2:05] Speaker 2: Once upon a time, in the land of fairy Tales, [2:09] Speaker 2: there lived a very young princess, the youngest daughter of [2:15] Speaker 2: a king and queen. Now that young princess had many [2:23] Speaker 2: wonderful things. She had beautiful clothes and sparkling jewels. But [2:31] Speaker 2: her favorite thing out of everything she had was a [2:36] Speaker 2: golden ball that she loved to play with. So one [2:44] Speaker 2: nice evening, the princess decided to go out for a [2:49] Speaker 2: walk and play with her favorite ball. She put on [2:56] Speaker 2: her bonnet that is a kind of hat, and her clogs. [3:03] Speaker 2: Those are shoes. After all, she was a princess living [3:09] Speaker 2: once upon a time in a fairytale land, and that [3:14] Speaker 2: is what they wore there. Anyway, When she was all [3:21] Speaker 2: ready to go out with her bonnet and her clogs on, [3:25] Speaker 2: she picked up her golden ball and went outside. Her [3:32] Speaker 2: family's palace was surrounded by woods, so the princess set [3:38] Speaker 2: out on a walk through the shady trees. It was [3:45] Speaker 2: a beautiful evening and the air was warm and comfortable, [3:51] Speaker 2: so the princess walked on carrying her golden ball. After time, [4:01] Speaker 2: she came to a spring of water. The water of [4:07] Speaker 2: the spring was cool and fresh. It flowed up and [4:12] Speaker 2: made a bubbling noise that sounded beautiful in the quiet woods. [4:20] Speaker 2: The princess thought that this would be a nice place [4:24] Speaker 2: to rest for a while, so she sat down and [4:29] Speaker 2: looked around at the green trees. The sky was still light, [4:37] Speaker 2: but the sun was getting lower, and the sky was [4:41] Speaker 2: turning a darker blue that was very pretty to see [4:46] Speaker 2: between the leaves of the trees. The princess began to [4:54] Speaker 2: play with her golden ball. She threw it up a [4:59] Speaker 2: little way into the air and caught it. Then she [5:05] Speaker 2: threw it up a little higher and caught it again. [5:11] Speaker 2: And then she threw it even higher, and again she [5:17] Speaker 2: caught it. But then the princess threw her golden ball [5:24] Speaker 2: way up high into the air, and this time she [5:30] Speaker 2: couldn't catch it. Instead of landing in her open hands, [5:37] Speaker 2: the golden ball fell onto the ground and rolled away [5:44] Speaker 2: right into the water of the spring. Down, down, down, [5:52] Speaker 2: It fell out of sight into the bottom of the spring. [6:01] Speaker 2: Oh no, said the princess. She did not want to [6:06] Speaker 2: lose her favorite toy. When she spoke, a frog peeked [6:14] Speaker 2: up out of the spring and looked at her curiously. Now, [6:21] Speaker 2: remember this was fairytale land, and there the animals can talk. [6:31] Speaker 2: So the frog spoke up and asked the young princess [6:36] Speaker 2: what was wrong. She explained that the golden ball had [6:42] Speaker 2: fallen to the bottom of the spring and that she [6:45] Speaker 2: would give all her jewels to have it back. I [6:51] Speaker 2: don't want your jewels, the frog answered, but I can [6:57] Speaker 2: get your ball for you. If you will be my [7:01] Speaker 2: friend and let me come to live with you and [7:06] Speaker 2: eat from your golden plate and sleep in my very [7:11] Speaker 2: own room, I will bring you back your ball. Well, [7:19] Speaker 2: the princess wanted her toy back, but the truth is [7:24] Speaker 2: that she did not think the frog could get out [7:27] Speaker 2: of the spring and come to her home. So she [7:33] Speaker 2: did something she perhaps ought not to have done. She [7:40] Speaker 2: promised the frog that he could come and live with [7:44] Speaker 2: her and eat from her plate and sleep in his [7:50] Speaker 2: very own room, even though she didn't really mean it. [7:58] Speaker 2: Even though she didn't think she would have to keep [8:03] Speaker 2: her promise, the frog dove down down down to the [8:13] Speaker 2: bottom of the pond and came up with the golden [8:19] Speaker 2: ball in his mouth. He tossed it on to the [8:25] Speaker 2: grass beside the spring. The princess ran to pick up [8:33] Speaker 2: her favorite toy. She was so happy to have it [8:39] Speaker 2: back that she ran off without even a thank you [8:44] Speaker 2: to the poor frog. The frog tried to call after [8:51] Speaker 2: her to take him with her, but she didn't hear [8:58] Speaker 2: a word. She just ran home with her golden ball [9:05] Speaker 2: and went to sleep soon afterwards, all tired out from [9:12] Speaker 2: her long walk. The next day, the princess was sitting [9:20] Speaker 2: at the large dining room table in the palace. She [9:26] Speaker 2: was just about to have dinner with her family when [9:31] Speaker 2: she heard a polite knock at the door. Open the door, [9:39] Speaker 2: my princess, dear, open the door to your true friend, here, [9:47] Speaker 2: came a small voice from outside the door. The princess [9:54] Speaker 2: jumped up and hurried over to the door to open it. [10:02] Speaker 2: There she saw the frog looking up at her. She [10:08] Speaker 2: was very surprised, and she closed the door without letting [10:14] Speaker 2: him in. Her father, the King, asked the princess who [10:23] Speaker 2: it was knocking at their door, so she told him [10:28] Speaker 2: everything that had happened at the spring. When she was [10:35] Speaker 2: done speaking, there was another knock at the door, and [10:41] Speaker 2: the frog's voice came again. Open the door, my princess, dear, [10:49] Speaker 2: open the door to your true friend. Here the king [10:56] Speaker 2: had listened to his daughter's story. Now he looked at [11:02] Speaker 2: her seriously. If you have made a promise, you must [11:10] Speaker 2: keep it. He explained kindly to his little girl. If [11:16] Speaker 2: this frog helped you, you must go and let him [11:21] Speaker 2: in as you said you would. At that, the princess [11:28] Speaker 2: got up and went back across the room to open [11:34] Speaker 2: the door to the little frog. Well, as soon as [11:41] Speaker 2: she opened the door, the frog hopped right into the [11:47] Speaker 2: room and had it straight to the table, where he [11:52] Speaker 2: asked the princess to lift him up onto the chair [11:57] Speaker 2: beside her. Then he asked her to move her golden [12:04] Speaker 2: plate a little nearer so that he could eat off [12:08] Speaker 2: it too, just as the princess had promised. So, the [12:17] Speaker 2: little frog and the young princess shared their dinner, eating [12:23] Speaker 2: off the golden plate, until their bellies were full and [12:29] Speaker 2: they were beginning to feel sleepy. The princess opened her [12:37] Speaker 2: little girl mouth and yond a big white yond then, [12:45] Speaker 2: and the frog opened his frog mouth and beyond a [12:50] Speaker 2: big yon too. Stretching sleepily, the frog asked the princess [13:01] Speaker 2: to carry him upstairs so he could go to sleep [13:06] Speaker 2: in his very own room. Just as she had promised, [13:15] Speaker 2: The princess sighed and picked up the little frog. She [13:21] Speaker 2: took him to his room, where he went right to [13:26] Speaker 2: sleep on a silk cushion. In her own room. The [13:34] Speaker 2: princess laid her head on her soft pillow and pulled [13:42] Speaker 2: her cozy blankets up around her as snug as could be. [13:50] Speaker 2: She was very tired, and she drifted off to sleep [13:57] Speaker 2: almost as quickly as the frog. Well. The next morning, [14:07] Speaker 2: the frog got out of bed just as soon as [14:12] Speaker 2: the sun came up and shone in the windows of [14:17] Speaker 2: his room. He hopped out of the palace and disappeared [14:24] Speaker 2: into the woods. Seeing him go, the princess thought that [14:33] Speaker 2: was the end of it, and that she would not [14:37] Speaker 2: see the frog again, But as it turned out, that [14:45] Speaker 2: is not what happened. For that night she again heard [14:53] Speaker 2: the knock at the door, and the voice saying, opened [14:59] Speaker 2: the door, my princess, dear, open the door to your [15:05] Speaker 2: true friend here. So once more the frog came in. [15:14] Speaker 2: Once more, he shared the princess's dinner, eating off of [15:21] Speaker 2: her golden plate, and then slept in his very own [15:27] Speaker 2: room at night. The same thing happened again the next [15:34] Speaker 2: day too. The frog hopped off as soon as the [15:41] Speaker 2: daylight shone in through the palace windows, But that night [15:50] Speaker 2: he came back and knocked at the door again. He [15:56] Speaker 2: ate from the princess's golden place and slept in his [16:03] Speaker 2: room just like before. The Next morning, though, things changed. [16:14] Speaker 2: When the princess woke up to the sunshine streaming in [16:20] Speaker 2: her window and went to check on the frog. She [16:26] Speaker 2: was very much surprised. That was because the frog was gone, [16:36] Speaker 2: and in his place was a handsome young prince with [16:42] Speaker 2: the kindest eyes she had ever seen. The prince explained [16:51] Speaker 2: to her that a fairy had put him under a [16:56] Speaker 2: magic spell that had turned him in to a frog. [17:03] Speaker 2: Only a princess could break the spell and turn him [17:09] Speaker 2: back into a prince, and the way she could break [17:15] Speaker 2: the spell was by letting him eat from her plate [17:22] Speaker 2: and live in her palace, even though she thought he [17:28] Speaker 2: was just a frog. And that is just what the [17:35] Speaker 2: princess had done. She had let the frog eat from [17:42] Speaker 2: her golden plate and share her palace, even though she [17:50] Speaker 2: thought he was just a frog, So she had ended [18:00] Speaker 2: the magic spell and turned him back into a prince again. [18:10] Speaker 2: After that, the young princess and the no longer a [18:17] Speaker 2: frog prince lived happily ever after. And I don't know [18:30] Speaker 2: about you, but I am guessing that they were both [18:36] Speaker 2: very kind to any frogs they happened to meet. After that. [19:03] Speaker 1: U n [20:02] Speaker 2: D h Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them.