Roy Trumbull: Children's Stories

In The Land of Souls

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:24:18 GMT

In The Land of Souls
An American Indian story. A young chief is to marry but the night before the wedding his intended becomes suddenly ill and dies. He is heartbroken and seeks to find her in the Land of Souls. This is a variant on the classic Orpheus myth.

The Queen of Quok

Tue, 19 May 2009 21:11:35 GMT

The Queen of Quok by L. Frank Baum
The king is dead. His 10 year old son is the new king. The treasury is empty. The plan is to auction off the king's hand in marriage to a rich woman who wants to be queen. All the candidates are old enough to be his grandmother. As this is a fairy tale he is saved from his fate by a magic purse.

The Box of Robbers

Mon, 11 May 2009 21:45:17 GMT

The Box of Robbers by L. Frank Baum
A little girl is curious about a mysterious trunk in the attic that belongs to her Uncle Walter. She finds a key in the household collection that fits the lock. But to her dismay the trunk contains three Italian bandits, very much alive, who complicate her day.

The Girl Who Owned A Bear

Mon, 04 May 2009 03:56:27 GMT

The Girl Who Owned A Bear by L. Frank Baum
Jane Gladys Brown has been given a book from which the drawings of the characters leap off the pages and into her room. She is about to be devoured by a grizzly bear when she realizes she can save herself.

The Capture of Father Time

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:02:49 GMT

The Capture of Father Time by L. Frank Baum
A young cowboy throws a lasso over Father Time and time stops.

The Glass Mountain

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:16:16 GMT

The Glass Mountain
A fairy tale from Poland. An enchanted princess lives in a castle atop a glass mountain. She is surrounded by gold and fine jewels. Naturally all the knights in the realm want to rescue her. They attempt this by charging up the glass on their steads while wearing full armor. Tells you all you need to know about the intelligence of knights. A mere youth succeeds while they all fail.

The Magic Ring

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:09:59 GMT

The Magic Ring
This story doesn't start out well. A young lad is sent to market to buy food and instead gets a dog and a cat. His mom kicks him out. He labors a year for a sack of sand. But then his fortunes turn for the better when he acquires a magic ring. Not willing to be happy with his lot he seeks the hand of a princess and then his troubles really begin.

How Six Men Traveled Through The World

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:49:36 GMT

How Six Men Traveled Through The World
Long before there were comic books there were fairy tales. Some of them had what would later be called Super Heroes. In this tale we start out with a discharged soldier who has less than a cent in his pocket. But by the end he has six super companions and all the gold in the kingdom.

Joey and the Portal

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:24:22 GMT

Joey and the Portal by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009
Joey visits an MRI machine and learns something about how it images soft tissue. Joey's Uncle Walter has vanished and in his uncle's lab he finds something like a home brew MRI machine but it's much different. He figures out it's a portal but to where?

Pecos Bill Rides A Tornado

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:53:58 GMT

Pecos Bill Rides A Tornado
A classic tall tale from the Southwest

Joey and Young Mr. Tom

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:51:29 GMT

Joey and Young Mr. Tom by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009
The first Joey story, Joey and the P-Ball, was quite popular. So I've brought him back and put him on a train in 1862 with a young Thomas Edison.

The Elephant's Child

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:51:09 GMT

The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling
This is my favorite Just So story. A running joke in the story is that two words are mispronounced in the manner of a child who has just learned a word. Thus curiosity becomes curtiosity and insatiable becomes insatable.

Kind Little Edmund

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:13:32 GMT

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
Kind Little Edmund - This is the concluding story in the Book of Dragons

The Fiery Dragon

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:54:10 GMT

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
The Fiery Dragon

The Dragon Tamers

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:19:17 GMT

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
The Dragon Tamers

The Island of the Nine Whirlpools

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:46:18 GMT

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
The Island of the Nine Whirlpools

The Ice Dragon

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:03:18 GMT

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
The Ice Dragon

Deliverers of Their Country

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:32:45 GMT

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
Deliverers of Their Country

Uncle James or the Purple Stranger

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:51:31 GMT

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
Uncle James or the Purple Stranger

The Book of Beasts

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:36:44 GMT

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
The Book of Beasts
The playing time of this story is 30 minutes.

Joey and the P-Ball

Sun, 25 May 2008 19:51:18 GMT

Joey and the P-Ball by Roy Trumbull copyright 2008
A teenager invents a golf ball that can't be lost.