From the Odyssey, Hercules and Beowulf to Gentle Nature Tales and Dino stories. 18 albums. All on a USB Flash Drive.

From the Odyssey, Hercules and Beowulf to Gentle Nature Tales and Dino stories. 18 albums. All on a USB Flash Drive.
The Adventures of Little Proto: A Musical Dinosaur Story
Little Proto’s T-Rex Adventure: A Musical Dinosaur Story
Little Proto and the Volcano’s Fire: A Musical Dinosaur Story
The Teacup Fairy: Very Old Tales for Very Young Children
The Evergreens: Gentle Tales of Nature
With Twinkle in your Eye: Funny Folktales from Everywhere
Rip Roarin’ Paul Bunyan Tales
The Winter Cherries: Holiday Tales from Around the World
The Blossom Tree: Tales from the Far East
Back when Odds Bodkin was creating his folktales and fairy tales collections for young children, he first issued them on cassettes. As an audio technology, they were soon replaced by CDs. Next came digital downloads, mp3s and other formats, where the audio music business still exists today in the streaming world.
Odds Bodkin’s early recordings are now available on Amazon Alexa. Just ask her to open “Bedtime Stories”, buy a subscription (it’s not much) and find a treasure trove of child-safe stories, all told with characters and live music.
Just ask for an Odds Bodkin story.
What will Alexa choose?
“I’m so thrilled to have found your website and eagerly await reconnecting with your peerless storytelling.
Some thirty years ago I lived in New Hampshire, where my two young sons and I frequently caught your act. Cassette recordings also entertained us on our twice annual car treks to visit family in Ohio.
Now the boys are grown and living on opposite coasts while their parents have settled in Kentucky. Anticipating grandchildren and, thanks to the pandemic, more long drives to visit family, I went in search of an old favorite road companion. It feels like going home.
Thanks for all you do.”
–A Recent Customer
If your children or grandchildren are heading back to school by staying at home this fall, get yourself an EPIC DRIVE with 18 full-length storytelling albums. From gentle nature stories to mythic adventures, they’re all told with characters, sounds and live acoustic music.
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Find Odds Bodkin’s stories on Amazon Alexa.
“Alexa, open Bedtime Stories.”
That’s all you have to say to your Amazon Alexa to open a trove of Odds Bodkin’s audio stories for kids. The Evergreens. The Teacup Fairy. The Little Proto Trilogy of dinosaur adventures. The Elf of Springtime. The Rock n’ Roll Three Little Pigs. 38 stories in all, each told with beautiful music, wild characters and amazing vocal effects.
Yes, Odds Bodkin’s ancient craft is now available on the most high-tech of platforms. Parents’ Choice Awards. Indie Awards. Storytelling World Awards. The Dove Award. The Golden Headset Award. These timeless tales have won them all.
Of course, you don’t have to rely on Alexa when you own these stories, plus The Odyssey, Beowulf and Bodkin’s other tales for adults and teens. Just purchase an EPIC DRIVE, the complete collection of Odds Bodkin’s audio works.
Happy listening!
At 4 hours and 8 minutes, The Odyssey is the longest of Odds Bodkin’s epic audio tales, but the others average well over 70 minutes.
The Little Proto Trilogy, his original dinosaur adventure series, is more than 3 hours of immersive listening for kids 4 and up. They’ll listen again and again and again, especially at bedtime.
Get all these and 12 other FULL-LENGTH STORYTELLING ALBUMS on the EPIC DRIVE.
Sit them down to listen on a good sound system. Odds Bodkin’s famous “sound effects bursts” begin each Little Proto audio adventure.
This isn’t “Once Upon a Time.”
This is roaring wind, made with the human voice. Crickets. Far off dino calls. Three-ton foot falls.
Building underneath, there’s 12-string guitar music.
Then a young dinosaur’s voice. “I’m listening for the hoots of Iguanodons…” Little Proto sings. You can listen here:
So begin all three ultra-kid-friendly Little Proto dinosaur adventure stories. Generations of parents have bought them for their children ages 3 and up.
And now, you can buy them for your kids, too!
No TV required.
3 hours and 20 minutes about a young dinosaur growing up. Good for falling asleep, too.
Tales from ancient Greece, England, Denmark, South Africa, Russia, China, Native America, India, France, Japan, the good old USA and more. Told with characters, fun vocal effects and live acoustic music.
Award-Winning Odds Bodkin Stories.
Just because your body’s locked down, doesn’t mean your mind should be.
Odds’ storytelling – including sound effects, voice, music, pacing, wit and style – is both versatile and relevant. It is a talent that needs witnessing and preservation. All the stories I’ve so far listened to have been precise and polished, a cut above anything else I’ve seen from others at live shows and readings. Odds is a true artist, who understands the weight of virtue and fiction. A true role model for the ages. This is one of the best (if not the best purchases/investments) I’ve made all year. I’m excited to share it with my family. At $99, this is really quite a steal … given The Odyssey alone is worth as much. (Not to mention, other such amazing series in this collection – Hercules, The Hidden Grail, etc…)
Well, there are always Odds Bodkin stories to free your child’s mind. The first few seconds are usually enough to engage their attention, even children accustomed to a constant flow of visual stimuli like TV or video games. Odds’ stories are for kids 4 and up. There are many age-appropriate categories.
To buy Odds Bodkin’s audio stories as downloads, you don’t have to go out, which is a good thing nowadays. Instead, just visit his online shop, purchase what interests you, and download to your device. The mp3s are ready to play. Nature stories. Fairy tales. Viking myths. Greek mythology. From two-minute tales to spoken-word epics that last for hours. All told with characters, music and a legendary joie de vivre, which we all need around now.
Joie de vivre. That’s French for “the joy of life.”
Find out more here.
It goes without saying: good luck to everyone. Stay safe and healthy. We’re in a national emergency.
At Odds Bodkin’s Shop, instead of buying hand sanitizer bottles for $1.00 and selling them for $70.00 during this emergency, we’ve decided to go the other way.
We’re dropping prices.
The coronavirus is forcing folks to self-isolate, and to make matters worse, the kids are home, too. Needless to say, they won’t be able to hear Odds tell stories at their schools.
So to help keep literacy learning going while kids are at home, we’ve dropped prices on Odds’ audio story collections.
Hours and hours of award-winning family listening. All with original music and characters.
To get your mind off what’s going on.