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Pocket Tea Tales: Gentle Imaginative Stories for Children

Sarah Gray

11 episodes

Pocket Tea Tales is a storytelling podcast for children and the folks who love them.

More about the show

These stories come from a practice I’ve carried for years: reaching into my pocket and finding just the right story for the moment. In classrooms, in my rocking chair at home—wherever a child needs something gentle, funny, or healing—these tales are told in that same spirit.

Each episode offers a simply told, imaginative story, often filled with animals, nature, small creatures, and a touch of magic. These gentle, low-tension stories are well-suited for bedtime, rest time, or any quiet moment in a child’s day. Rich in feeling, they are shaped to meet children where they are, supporting emotional development, resilience, and a child’s inner life.

Some are comforting, some are playful, and all are told with care and deep respect for childhood. Rooted in an imaginatively rich, child-centered approach, Pocket Tea Tales is a place to settle in, listen, and return to often. A world of beloved characters will become living inner companions your child can return to again and again.

Episodes

  1. Witch Nittle's Halloween

    · 11 min · S1 E11

    Meet a new friend from the Fairy Forest, just in time for Halloween: Fairy-Witch Nittle, a wee, hummingbird-quick broom-maker with a big, kind heart who gives every broom she makes away. But on the most magical night…

  2. New Friends

    · 11 min · S1 E10

    On the first morning of fall, it still feels very much like summer. Minka Mouse has a long list of Saturday chores to finish before she can go out to play. But by the time the tasks are finished, the sun is already…

  3. Skymouse

    · 7:50 · S1 E9

    On the very last evening of summer, Minka Mouse catches sight of a most mysterious creature fluttering before the autumn full moon. But there’s no time to linger. Autumn’s Welcome Party is about to begin, and Minka…

  4. Bumbleball--The First Game

    · 11 min · S1 E8

    Once upon a time in the Fairy Forest, a grouchy gnat received some help from a Bumblebee. By and by a a snowberry was dropped on a friend and that happy accident led to the invention of Bumbleball—the most beloved game…

  5. Grandfather Beetle's Summer Vacation

    · 10 min · S1 E7

    Grandfather Beetle's Summer Vacation Grandfather Beetle has never taken a vacation before—and he's not entirely sure he wants to start now. When an invitation arrives from his beloved sisters, Grandfather packs his…

  6. Phillip The Librarian Skunk

    · 8:28 · S1 E6

    In this gentle and heartwarming tale from Pocket Tea Tales, listeners wander into the cozy root-neighborhoods and towering redwoods of the Fairy Forest, where communities are built through friendship, shared spaces,…

  7. Sylvie in the Garden

    · 12 min · S1 E5

    In this cozy springtime tale from the Fairy Forest, listeners meet Sylvie, a gentle Orb Weaver Spider with silver-threaded webs and a heart as warm as sunshine. Alongside her friend Mother Ladybug and seventeen tiny…

  8. Whisk, A Racing Rat!

    · 10 min · S1 E4

    In this Pocket Tea Tale, we travel to the Fairy Forest, where we meet our first Racing Rat, Whisk. Whisk is one of the fastest among them but more than that, she is kind. On a Mossy Market morning, she arrives at the…

  9. Grandma Mouse

    · 8:30 · S1 E3

  10. Minka Mouse and the Fairy Forest

    · 12 min · S1 E2

    Minka Mouse introduces me to the Fairy Forest.

  11. Minka Mouse: How it all began.

    · 6:39 · S1 E1

    This first short story introduces Minka Mouse, the mouse who introduced me to the Fairy Forest when I was a child. From here, oh so many more friends and adventures will be shared.

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