A Twist in the Tale

Patsy and Flo are Jealous

One of a series of magical, funny, modern original children's stories by Ruth Vidler, published by Little Angel Creative. Full details of the...

The Yonghy Bonghy Bo

The delightfully nonsensical saga of unrequited love between the Yonghy Bonghy Bo and Mrs. Jingly Jones...

The Hunting of the Snark

Another delightful dollop of consummate nonsense from a master craftsman...

Puss in Boots

The tale of a quick-witted and 'purr-puss-ful' miller's cat who - through flattery and cunning - secures for his new Master the hand in marriage...

Cinderella (Part 2)

The delightful story of how a little girl - condemned to be a kitchen-maid by her bossy, ugly step-sisters - eventually went to the Grand Ball and...

Aladdin (Part One)

The fantastic tale of how a lazy little Chinese boy met a magician, discovered a magic lamp, a few genies and a treasure trove of sparkling jewels...

How The Leopard Got His Spots

Another magnificent 'Just So' fantasy from Rudyard Kipling, choc-full of political incorrectitude, Empire, brilliant imagery, humour and...

Hansel and Gretel (Part 1)

The creepy tale of how an evil stepmother tried to get rid of her two adorable step-children for ever in a dark forest... encounters with an evil...

Tom Thumb (Part One)

The story of how tiny Tom Thumb (TT) - the smallest of 7 brothers - used his sharp wits to help his brothers to overcome an amazing series of...

The Duel

The strange tale of the gingham dog and the calico cat. They fight, closely observed by a Dutch clock and a Chinese plate, then disappear... but...

What is a Twist in the Tale?

Its a website that contains hundreds of newly recorded audio files of classic children's stories, verse, nursery rhymes and nonsense poems.

Why not browse on our virtual bookshelves (click the tab marked 'Audio Library' in the head of this website) and listen to samples of each work? Written by the greatest story tellers of their time, professionally voiced for todays young ears, these stories will conjure up a myriad of memories from your own childhood.

By registering with A Twist in th Tale (click on the 'Membership' tab) you can solve your gift predicaments and pass on a rich story heritage to a new generation.

We are also adding quality material penned by new, as yet unpublished, authors.

Becoming a Member

A Cheshire cat welcomes Membership is entirely FREE OF CHARGE for 12 months, and includes accessing all our recorded stories on the site.

You can download these as mp3 audio files and save them to your own computer. Click here to find out how.

The services we provide include inviting family and friends, and emailing stories from our site to your invitees.

To become a member please click here to register