The Spoken Word of

These pages contain narrations by Barry Carl. Keep checking back here for more stories. Feel free to download them and make a "Beary Tales" compilation of your own.

Here's an mp3 of "Goldilocks and The Three Bears", by Daniel Dorff, performed by members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conducted by Mark Gould, with yours truly as narrator. [more]

This story is called "The Girl Who Helped Thunder", and it's a Native American tale. I don't have a pic for it yet. It's one of the stories I read to my daughters. [more]

Runaways is the fourth in a series of 'real-life kid stories', tales from my childhood. They're all true. [more]

Stolen $$ is the third in a series of 'real-life kid stories', tales from my childhood. They're all true. [more]

The Cactus is the second in a series of 'real-life kid stories', tales from my childhood. They're all true. [more]

The Coffee Grinder is the first in a series of 'real-life kid stories', tales from my childhood. They're all true. [more]

Christmas Every Day was originally written in 1892 by William Dean Howells. This is a wonderful story of Christmas run amok. It's a funny story with a point. I hope you enjoy it. [more]

Unanana and the Elephant is from "Hey! Listen to This," an anthology of read-aloud stories selected and annotated with commentary by Jim Trelease. It is specifically for kids, and is one of the stories I recorded for my kids to listen to when I'm out on the road. I hope your children enjoy it as much as mine have. - Barry [more]