MAGICAL STORIES for
Sleepy STRAWBERRIES

An ANIMISMA Production

About

In 1938, my grandmother was in 3rd grade at Roseville Public School in Sydney, Australia.
That year she won a beautiful book called “The Little Round Garden” by Gladys Lister.

In 2023, while visiting with family, my treasured twin nieces who I lovingly refer to as “my strawberries” asked me if I
would record a podcast for them as they drifted off to sleep. They said they liked to listen to the sound of my voice.

I thought about my grandmother, their great-grandmother’s book, and wondered if perhaps reading this old, sweet, fairy story for
children might offer them what they were seeking. Plus they are in 3rd grade themselves this year, so the timing felt perfect…

And so with that, Magical Stories for Sleepy Strawberries was born.

This is an offering of love for my family. May it also be a sleep or story aid for you and all you hold dear.
I hope to add more stories for sleep to this collection.

You can find it soon on all good podcast apps and it will also be updated on this page.

COMING SOON

Season 1

The Little Round Garden, by Gladys Lister

  • Gladys Lister was the seventh of ten children born to American immigrants. She was educated at Cromarty, a private school in Melbourne until the age of fourteen, when the family moved to Perth. She continued her schooling there until the family moved to Sydney a few years later. After leaving school, Lister studied painting under Julian Ashton. She married in 1913 and her two children, Peter and Roberta, feature in her first book.

    Her last novels, written in the 1950s and all published in England, form a group, using the same characters. Two of these, A Star for Starlight and Quest for Starlight, may also be read as travel books, for they include descriptions of post-war sea voyages made by Lister to North America, England and Europe.

    Lister has said that she owed her love of horses to the fact that she had always owned a pony and that she inherited her love of story telling from Irish ancestors on her mother's side.

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