Bertie Stories

Once upon a time, when we started Storynory back in 2005, our main character was called Bertie. He's a royal prince, who was once turned into our frog. That's why Storynory's mascot is a little green frog wearing earphones. After a long time away on holiday, Bertie is making a return in this story. He's in his human form, but he's still friends with all the pond life, including Colin the Grumpy Carp.

We continue our Love Story in Space. The Parrot and Astropup have plucked a  red rose from the Planet of the Cows for the Parrot to give to his beloved, Polly. Unfortunately the bulls who guard the sacred rose have a very blustery response. 

We continue the story of Bertie and Beatrice's dreams. Beatrice has called off the wedding, left the palace, and gone to live in the town and look for a job. How will the ex-princess get on in the "real world"?

Prince Bertie and Princess Beatrice have very different dreams leading to trouble in the palace.

We first recorded Tim the Tadpole's Birthday way back in 2006, but somehow the mp3 file was overwritten and lost. Now, for the first time in some years, we present this sparkly story in its entirety.

iPads and Mobile phones - they are necessary for life - how can anybody survive without being connected to the internet 24 hours a day. And yet Bertie and Beatrice visit a land where technology is banned. How do they get on.

What would it be like to be a frog? Have you ever wanted to be one just for a day?

Shrove Tuesday has a special tradition at the Palace that dates back to the days of Bertie's true mother who is remembered for her magic pancake recipe.

Spooky, exciting, dramatic, romantic, funny - the most epic Bertie story ever ! Bertie has spent eight long years as a frog on the pond. Is this the story where he turns back to a prince? The only way to find out, is to listen to Natasha and Richard's special performance recorded for Christmas 2013

It is soon to be Beatrice's Birthday and she asks him to go on an impossible quest, to find her a living dinosaur as a pet.

The grumpiest fish on the pond plays and April Fool joke - but is it funny?

The Wicked Queen has confessed everything. She had recorded the story of how she turned Bertie into a frog. The cassette tape has gone missing. Bertie MUST get hold of it.

A Bertie adventure that takes us to the jungle of Papua New Guinea in search of the secret of eternal youth.

It is Christmas Eve. Bertie the frog is performing his stand-up comedy act abroad. He and Tim are delayed by snow when trying to get back to their pond, and end up with in a bus depot with some unlikely characters.

Prince Bertie goes to Siberia in search of a family heirloom, a Faberge egg. On the Trains Siberian Train he meets a mysterious Mongolian Princess.

Prince Bertie learns some history from an old war veteran, and he proves that even if he sometimes can be a bit spoilt and rude, deep down he has a very good heart.

Natasha tells us how Bertie was sent to a outdoor training "Boot Camp" and survived to tell the tale.

Natasha returns with a Bertie Story ! The King and Queen visit the desert oasis of Palmyra. The Wicked Queen brings back a souvenir that starts to haunt her

Tim the Tadpole is very upset because Colin has called him stupid for not doing well at school. Bertie decides to help Tim with some advice on how to pass exams.

Prince Bertie was the kingdom's most courteous driver. The Wicked Queen hoped that his ordinary car and slow driving would not impress Princess Beatrice.

Princess poppy falls into the pond and leaves her crown in the water. Sadie the swan picks it up on her head, and is seen by Prince Boris who is convinced that she is a princess who has been turned into a swan.

The story of why Bertie thinks that Mermaids are no better than sirens.

When Bertie was still a small prince, his annoying little brother bet him that he would not dare to sleep one Halloween night in the haunted North Tower. Bertie did - and he met a ghost with a strange sense of humour.

The story of how Prince Bertie kept a lion as a pet when he was a small boy living in the palace, and what happened when the lion grew too big to keep.

The Wicked Queen is determined that Princess Beatrice should marry a rich prince - but Beatrice stays true to her long lost Prince Bertie - then the Queen finds someone who looks just like Bertie.

In the year of the Rat, Bertie gives sanctuary to a special visitor to the pond.

A fish wishes to be alone. Santa grants him his desire for Christmas, and then he wonders if peace and quiet is such a wonderful thing after all.

Three short and slapstick pond-life stories compiled from the early days of Storynory. Notable for the voice of Rob playing Colin the Carp and Barker the Dog.

You will only hear this on Storynory because it's Top Secret. Natasha exclusively reveals that before Bertie was turned into a frog, he worked as a Secret Agent.

How an exceptionally grumpy fish who lives on the pond with Prince Bertie the Frog was turned into the King for a day and tried to ban football. There's a moral in it somewhere.

Bertie has become an author - and here you can listen to the the story of how he came to write his first block-buster.

All the pond life are excited by Valentine's day. But nobody is more excited than Bertie the frog. All he has to do, is to lure the Lovely Princess Beatrice Down to the Pond, receive her kiss from her, and he will turn back into his true self - a handsome prince.

The absolutely true story of how Prince Bertie the Frog met Santa Claus and his reindeer. The Lovely Princess Beatrice was most terribly upset after the wicked stepmother called off Christmas, and Bertie just had to cheer her up.

This a rather scary story, particularly if you are a very small tadpole. Halloween is the most frightening night the year, or it is the most scrummy night of the year, depending on whether you are on the right or wrong end of a trick or a treat.

After a huge argument on the pond Colin the Grumpy Carp was forced to reveal the secret of how he got his grouch. We now tell the story. Get your hankies ready, because this one is a real tear jerker.

The lovely princess Beatrice is on holiday - but she can get no rest because she is constantly being photographed. The newspapers back home are saying some really rude things about her. Bertie is shocked and comes to the rescue.

When Beatrice was just a teenage princess in training, she entered The Sweetest Princess Competition. Up until now, the inside story has been kept secret, but Sadie the Swan has persuaded Bertie to reveal all.

The pond-life were amazed when Tim suggested that all the fishes, frogs, and tadpoles should have swimming lessons. In fact, Colin the Carp said that was the silliest thing he had ever heard.

About the time when Bertie was a just a small prince-ling and he decided to run away from the palace. He finds that the world outside can be quite rough when nobody knows that you are really a royal in disguise.

How Prince Bertie slew a Welsh dragon and won the hand of the Lovely Princess Beatrice. An adventure from the time before Bertie was turned into a frog.

The annual Easter Egg hunt in the Palace Garden is heading for disaster, and Prince Bertie the Frog is about to take the blame for eating the eggs belonging to the children.

The story that sets up the Bertie series. How and why Prince Bertie was turned into a frog by the wicked step-mother of Princess Beatrice.

Written by Bertie Read by Natasha This is the very first Bertie story - from Christmas 2005. . Now, this morning it is a bit cold in this part of the world. Mr Frosty has been to visit, and the vegetable patch is white and glistening. There is ice on the pond. “Brrrr,” said Colin the […]