Looking for a lasting gift for your family? One that can arrive instantly, without shipping? Then purchase this collection of all Odds Bodkin’s audio storytellings, now including Beowulf, his 1 hour and 20 minute epic telling with music before a live adult audience at Grendel’s Den in Cambridge, MA.
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“We are very happy to receive our epic drive stories. Our kids were raised on these stories since they were tots. Our family custom during the winter is to gather around a warm wood stove with a hot cup of latte and share time together listening to books and doing artful projects. When I asked the family what they would like to listen to this season, my husband and kids (now teenagers) asked if we could listen to Odds Bodkin stories again. So, thanks for all the years of good story telling! We will enjoy hearing it all again.”
Warm Thanks,
Nuki Vaillancourt
November 2021
Get $50 off the price of his MASTER DRIVE this July. This flash drive features his complete audio stories, his epic poem The Water Mage’s Daughter (550 pages pdf), a live performance video plus original musical compositions.
Just plug it in and distribute the stories to your family’s devices! All mp3 audios.
Age-Coded Stories Include:
The Adventures of Little Proto (audio)
Little Proto’s T-Rex Adventure (audio)
Little Proto and the Volcano’s Fire (audio)
The Teacup Fairy: Very Old Tales for Very Young Children (audio)
The Evergreens: Gentle Tales of Nature (audio)
With Twinkle in your Eye: Funny Folktales from Everywhere (audio)
Rip Roarin’ Paul Bunyan Tales (audio)
The Winter Cherries: Holiday Tales from Around the World (audio)
The Blossom Tree: Tales from the Far East (audio)
The Wise Little Girl: Tales of the Feminine (audio)
Earthstone: The Eco-Musical (2 hour audio)
The Odyssey: An Epic Telling (4 hour audio)
Giant’s Cauldron: Viking Myths of Adventure (audio)
Hidden Grail: Sir Percival and the Fisher King (90 minute audio)
Stories of Love (audio)
David and Goliath: The Harper and the King (audio)
The Myth of Hercules (audio)
Plus Rare Works:
Beowulf: The Only One (live audio recording)
The Iliad: Book I (50-minute video)
The Water Mage’s Daughter: a 13,000-line epic poem. (PDF e-book)
Plus Odds Bodkin’s Original Musical Compositions on Acoustic Instruments and Kurzweil synthesizer:
Rapunzel’s Window
At Beauty’s Door
Black Irish
Soft-Hearted Men in the Good Old USA
Little Paws
Christmas Morning
The Great Irish Elk
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.
Odds Bodkin’s audio, BEOWULF: THE ONLY ONE, just won the 2020 Storytelling World Award. The 1 hour and 21 minute tale, told with 12-string guitar, Celtic harp and character voices, was recorded before a live audience.
It is available as a $19.95 mp3 download from Odds Bodkin’s Shop.
Recommended for listeners 12 & up.
Zinger’s in Milford, NH usually hosts stand-up comedians and music acts, but on January 17th, 2020, at 7 pm Odds Bodkin will show up to tell ODIN AND THOR BATTLE THE FROST GIANTS, an adult storytelling show with live acoustic accompaniments. He’ll use Celtic harp and 12-string guitars.
Talk about some cognitive dissonance. And yet, not so, because very hip young crowds have been coming to get their minds blown at Odds’ adult shows at Grendel’s Den on Harvard Square for years now. They found the secret ticket to the true intelligentsia. Now you can, too.
If you’re a hard-boiled comedy fan who can’t find anything to laugh at anymore, then come to this show. Odds Bodkin doesn’t care if you laugh.
He’s there to make you dream.
A portly, middle-aged white dude in a chair with a couple of instruments. Two microphones on booms. Not much else. No flashing lights. No background dancers or singers. No pyrotechnics to burn the house down.
I’m definitely not pretty.
Nevertheless, this coming Sunday night, Feb. 10th, 2019 at 5 pm at Grendel’s Den in Cambridge, MA, I’m performing WORLDS APART: TALES FOR LOVERS. The show is two stories, The Crane Wife and The Dame Ragnell. Two ancient love tales about women either being thrilled or disappointed by the men in their lives, or feeling both emotions at the same time. And how their men, following their own rules, see the women.
Old, old stuff.
I once heard a beautiful woman say, “I married a prince. And look, he turned into a frog.”
These stories might well make you weep.
Odds Bodkin
WORLDS APART: TALES FOR LOVERS
Feb. 10, 2019 at 5 pm
Grendel’s Den, Cambridge MA
Back to School Sale at Odds Bodkin’s Download Shop. 30% Off.
Give your child a giant head start in Greek mythology, medieval lore, Biblical adventure and more with these award-winning mp3 story audios, now 30% off at Odds Bodkin’s shop. Sale ends Sept. 10, 2018.
The Odyssey: An Epic Telling (4 hrs 8 min) reg. $49.95 now $34.95
David and Goliath: The Harper and the King (1 hr) reg. $14.95 now $10.45
Beowulf: The Only One (1 hr 20 min) reg. 19.95 now $13.95
The Myth of Hercules (1 hr 40 min) reg. 19.95 now $13.95
The Hidden Grail: Sir Percival and the Fisher King (1 hr 30 min) reg. $14.95 now $10.45
Fast download delivery brings these storytelling classics with music to your child’s device. Pry a young mind away from modern video games into ancient imagination.
The Collected Works of Odds Bodkin on a flash drive. 25 hours of audio storytelling and music, plus a 555-page epic poem for adult readers, with glossary.
“one of the great voices in American storytelling”–WIRED
