Posted on Mar 07 2009
This is an adorable story about a patchwork quilt, a little girl and her grandmother. Get the enhanced transcript of "La colcha de retazos" in the Cody's Cuentos online store.
Quilt and photo by Rebekah
Posted on Mar 01 2009
Un cuento uruguayo, escrito por Horacio Quiroga
Foto de Szeke
Click here for a Spanish-English glossary of some words in this story.
Cierta vez las víboras dieron un gran baile. Invitaron a las ranas y a los sapos, a los flamencos, y ...
Posted on Feb 04 2009
This is a Spanish translation of "Franny B. Kranny, There's a Bird in Your Hair!"
written by Harriet Lerner and Susan Goldhor. This is a Latin American Spanish translation, so you will hear "ustedes" instead of "vosotros" in this story. Complete ...
Posted on Feb 02 2009
This podcast is an interview (in English) with Harriet Lerner, a well-known psychologist and best-selling author. While Harriet is famous for her numerous self-help books, she's also co-author (with her big sister Susan Goldhor), of two children's books, both of ...
Posted on Jan 17 2009
If you subscribe to the Cody's Cuentos podcast via iTunes or any other RSS service, I need you to resubscribe. Feedburner, the service that I use to notify listeners of new episodes, was purchased by Google awhile back. I think ...
Posted on Jan 04 2009
In English, this story is called "The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs." Through the ages there have been many different takes of this story in different cultures. Here is a Spanish version we found, author unknown, where the goose ...
Posted on Dec 09 2008
Escrito por Hans Christian Andersen
Había una vez, en el fondo del océano, un maravilloso palacio construido con corales multicolores, caracolas de nácar, burbujas saltarinas y perlas de todos los tamaños.
En el palacio vivían el rey y la reina de los ...
Posted on Nov 22 2008
Cierto día, Rosy y su hermana mayor, Katy, estaban sentadas bajo su árbol favorito, comiendo crujientes manzanas rojas.
Cronch, cronch, cronch -crujió Rosy.
Monch, monch, monch -mascó Katy.
Crujían y mascaban, y crujiendo y masticando, Rosy y Katy devoraron sus ...
Posted on Nov 15 2008
Today we launch the new BEGINNER category of stories here at Cody's Cuentos. These are stories that will be short, sweet and easy to understand.
The goal of these Beginner-level stories is to help you improve your Spanish listening comprehension and ...
Posted on Nov 15 2008
Chema y Emma son hermanos. Viven en una ciudad grande. Su abuela vive en el campo en un pueblo lejos de la ciudad. Cada mes, Chema y Emma van al campo con sus padres para ver su abuelita. Un día, ...
Posted on Nov 04 2008
This episode is the Spanish translation of a "Want Ad" that Frank Crane, an American writer, published in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th-century. I think it's pretty neat. (Se busca is the way to say "Wanted" in ...
Posted on Oct 30 2008
In this classic tale from the French fairy tale master Charles Perrault (the same man who gave us Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, among others) we meet two sisters. The older sister has got an ugly personality while the ...
Posted on Oct 26 2008
Check back here after November 15 for new beginner level audio stories in Spanish.
Posted on Jul 23 2008
Otro cuento clásico de los hermanos Grimm
Foto de Rumpelstiltskin en el bosque de Ariel Dawn
Había una vez un molinero que era muy pobre, pero que tenía una hija muy hermosa. Ocurrió que un día tuvo la oportunidad de hablar con ...
Posted on Jun 17 2008
Gnomes by Fantastic Toys
Hace muchos, muchos años, hubo una vez un niño que solía jugar debajo de un gran pino cercano a su casa.
Después de cada lluvia, alrededor del árbol brotaban muchos hongos alineados en forma de círculo, que servían ...