SUNDAY, September 1st: TEA TIME & STORYTIME

@ 1:30pm: TEA TIME with Jeeves and Wooster Continues

Frightening teas, revolutionary fanatics, and Bingo Little in love . .  AGAIN!  THIS WEEK: "The Inimitable Jeeves" - Episode 4 with Da5id Abbot, Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower, live on Stream in Ceiliuradh Glen. 
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@ 6:30pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME - Tilly & The Bookwanderers  
Eleven year-old Tilly has lived above her grandparents' bookshop ever since her mother disappeared shortly after she was born. Like the rest of her family, Tilly loves nothing more than to escape into the pages of her favorite stories.  One day Tilly realises that classic children's characters are appearing in the shop through the magic of `book wandering' - crossing over from the page into real life. Caledonia Skytower continues the adventure, live on Stream - onstage at the Golden Horseshoe in Magicland Park.  
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SUNDAY, August 18th: Tea Time & Storytime

@ 1:30pm: TEA TIME with Jeeves and Wooster Continues
A dead fish, a bevy of cats, and several incarcerations.  Just another fun-filled hour with Bertie Wooster and his inscrutable valet, Jeeves. THIS WEEK: "The Inimitable Jeeves" - Episode 3 with Da5id Abbot, Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower, live on Stream in Ceiliuradh Glen. 
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@ 6:30pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME - Tilly & The Bookwanderers  
Eleven year-old Tilly has lived above her grandparents' bookshop ever since her mother disappeared shortly after she was born. Like the rest of her family, Tilly loves nothing more than to escape into the pages of her favorite stories.  One day Tilly realises that classic children's characters are appearing in the shop through the magic of `book wandering' - crossing over from the page into real life. Caledonia Skytower, live on Stream onstage at the Golden Horseshoe in Magicland Park.  
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SUNDAY, August 4th at 6:30pm slt: MAGICLAND STORYTIME - Classic Tales!

Jean-Léon Gérôme, Androcles - Oil on Canvas 1902 - Public Domain

So many tales in over a decade on the Golden Horseshoe stage, and we never run out. How could we?  

TONIGHT, some classic stories you might not yet have heard at our Storytime: The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Gingerbread Man (loved that one as a child!), The Tortoise and the Hare, Androcles and the Lion, Thumbelina . . . and more. 

Caledonia Skytower, live on stream!

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SUNDAY, June 19th: Another Storied Sunday

@1:30pm ~ TEA TIME with The Jungle Book

Bryn Taleweaver continues to share selections from Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book."

Mowgli is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories. He is a feral child from the Pench area in Seoni, India who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his novels The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters.

In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean "frog", describing his lack of fur. Kipling made up the name, and it "does not mean 'frog' in any language other than the language of the forest."

Kipling stated that the first syllable of "Mowgli" should rhyme with "cow" and is pronounced this way in Britain and some European countries, while in the United States it is almost always pronounced to rhyme with "go".

Presented live in voice.
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@6pm ~ MAGICLAND STORYTIME: Ollie's Odyssey Continues


Caledonia continues William Joyce's Ollie's Odyssey at the Golden Horseshoe at Magicland Park.

 In the secret realm of toys, there are many mysteries.There is the Code of the Toys, which is as ancient as childhood. There’s also the magic of becoming a child’s favorite, the highest honor in the Toy World. Made by hand by Billy’s mother, Ollie is a special toy, “a toy who will matter.” He becomes Billy’s best friend, confidant, pal, and yes, Billy’s “favorite.” Presented Live in voice.

Presented live in voice.

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SUNDAY, May 29th: TERRIFIC TALES

@ 1:30pm Tea Time at Baker Street concludes:
The last event by Seanchai Library at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 will conclude Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

THIS WEEK: The Adventure of the Second Stain

Lord Bellinger, the Prime Minister, and the Right Honourable Trelawney Hope, the Secretary of State for European Affairs, come to Holmes in the matter of a document stolen from Hope's dispatch box, which he kept at home in Whitehall Terrace when not at work. If divulged, this document could bring about very dire consequences for all Europe, even war. They are loath to tell Holmes at first the exact nature of the document's contents, but when Holmes declines to take on their case, they tell him that it was a rather injudicious letter from a foreign potentate.

Presented live, in voice
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@ 6pm Magicland Storytime: More from the Art and Magic of William Joyce

Caledonia shares "A Day with Wilbur Robinson" and continues "Ollie's Odyssey" :
In the secret realm of toys, there are many mysteries.There is the Code of the Toys, which is as ancient as childhood. There’s also the magic of becoming a child’s favorite, the highest honor in the Toy World. Made by hand by Billy’s mother, Ollie is a special toy, “a toy who will matter.” He becomes Billy’s best friend, confidant, pal, and yes, Billy’s “favorite.”

But there are villains in the Toy World, and Zozo, the clown king, is the most feared. He and his toy henchman (the Creeps) have sworn to steal and imprison favorite toys until they forget their children and become forever lost.

When Ollie is toynapped, Billy must rescue his beloved favorite from Zozo’s subterranean lair in the old Carnival Place, past the park, through the woods, and into the night.
Never has a journey of ten blocks been more epic 

Presented live in voice. 
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SUNDAY, November 22nd: MORE STORIES - Sublime to Silly

Two sessions today: one of a work in progress, and another as its antidote.

@ 2PM ~ TWO HOUSES Concludes in the Seanchai Fireside Room
Caledonia shares the WIP conclusion of her short story "Two Houses": a young couple honeymoon in Ireland where strange and frightening dreams of the past disturb their future.  The mystery centers on the fates of two houses, one thriving and one decayed.

The story will be part of A TRIO OF IRISH TALES, which is set to be released by the end of the month for Kindle and in Paperback.

@ 6PM ~ MAGICLAND STORYTIME:  FORTUNATELY THE MILK
"...the silliest book I ever wrote" quoth author Neil Gaiman.

Caledonia shares Gaiman's hysterical adventure in misdirection. This is quite possibly the most exciting adventure ever to be written about milk since Tolstoy's epic novel War and Milk. Also it has aliens, pirates, dinosaurs and wumpires in it (but not the handsome, misunderstood kind), also a never-adequately-explained-bowl-of-piranhas, not to mention a Volcano God.

Presented live, in voice.
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SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AT 7PM: The Candlelight Processional

Our friends at Magicland Park are once more dusting off the choir robes and trimming the candlewicks for a beloved holiday tradition:

Magicland Park pays tribute to a Disneyland tradition that began in 1958, at the wish of Mr. Disney himself.  This holiday tradition takes place on Main Street U.S.A. and features a full Orchestra, Christmas Tree Chorus performing renditions of traditional Christmas songs and a retelling of the Christmas Story by a celebrity narrator.  In Magicland Park, the Candlelight Processional is narrated live by storyteller Caledonia Skytower.

NOTE: in 2013 the Disney Company updated the script of the Processional.  The Magicland version has not yet gone through this update and still uses the original 1958 script, some of whose language some might find dated in places.  We recommend that you appreciate the words as a reflection of the time in which they were written, not as a statement on where society is, or perhaps should be, today.

Presented live in voice and on stream.

SUNDAY, March 16th at 6:00pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME

Caledonia takes the stage at the Golden Horseshoe with more from her original stories about Ireland from her upcoming short story collection  A TRIO OF IRISH TALES II.

Stories from this collection include:

The Fairy Tree - Young Liam is back! (from The Shadow by the Gate) Armed with a new sense of belief in the unseen, he confidently goes back into the Wicklow countryside and discovers the power and the danger of getting what you wished for.

A Rock Beyond - Patrick is always left behind, or so it seems.  Eager to prove himself, he vows to spend the night at Teach Duinn, the gathering place of the dead on the most western crag of Irish soil.  What will Pat find beneath the rocks, among the waves, and beneath the cliffs?  Will he find himself?  Or perhaps he'll discover more than he bargained for!

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SUNDAY, March 2nd @ 6pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME

"The Frog Prince" by shall

THIS WEEK: The Frog Prince and Mardi Gras Stories!

Join Caledonia at the Golden Horseshoe as she shares the Grimm Brother's Tale that inspired Disney's animated "The Frog Princess" - and Mardi Gras Tales as Magicland enters the Parti-Gras season on Main Street with parades and fireworks.

Presented live in voice.

SUNDAY, November 10th @ 6PM: MAGICLAND STORYTIME

Caledonia does an Encore presentation of Neil Gaiman's FORTUNATELY, THE MILK ...

"I bought the milk," said my father. "I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: T h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in the air above Marshall Road."

"Hullo," I said to myself. "That's not something you see every day. And then something odd happened."

Find out just how odd things get in this hilarious story of time travel and breakfast cereal, expertly told by Newbery Medalist and bestselling author Neil Gaiman.

Caledonia Skytower presents, live in voice.

SUNDAY, October 13th at 6:00pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME Bonfires and Broomsticks!

Caledonia returns to the Golden Horseshoe with more from beloved author Mary Norton's (The Borrowers Series) and her adventures with Miss Eglantine Price, Carey, Paul, and Charles.

A lucky circumstance brings the children back to Miss Price's care, but such disappointment!  She's given up magic all together! Or has she?  The bedknob is lurking about, and it may still be magic.  So too might there still be a spell of two to be cast by the enigmatic Miss Price!

Presented Live in Voice.

SUNDAY, September 29th at 6:00PM: MAGICLAND STORYTIME

THE MAGIC BEDKNOB Concludes.

Mary Norton, author of  THE BORROWERS series, takes us on a magical trip to the English countryside village of Much Frensham in Bedfordshire to meet Miss Price, Apprentice Witch.  Into Miss Price's life enters something totally unexpected - three inquisitive children.  That's when the magic really starts!

Caledonia continues the story as Miss Price and the children take the bed on an adventure to an uninhabited island, or IS it uninhabited?

Live, in voice.

SUNDAY, September 15th @6PM: MAGICLAND STORYTIME

Mary Norton, author of THE BORROWERS series, takes us on a magical trip to the English countryside village of Much Frensham in Bedfordshire to meet Miss Price, Apprentice Witch.  Into Miss Price's life enters something totally unexpected - three inquisitive children.  That's when the magic really starts!

Caledonia Skytower Live, in voice.

SUNDAY, August 25th at 6:00pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME - "Just So Stories"

Cale returns to Magicland with a horse of a different color.  Or is it "How the Leopard got its Spots"?  Or "How the Elephant got his Trunk"?  What if it was a "she"?

The Just So Stories are a collection written by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Highly fantasised origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works.

The Just So Stories typically have the theme of a particular animal being modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being. For example, the Whale has a tiny throat because he swallowed a mariner, who tied a raft inside to block the whale from swallowing other men. The Camel has a hump given to him by a djinn as punishment for the camel's refusing to work (the hump allows the camel to work longer between times of eating). The Leopard's spots were painted by an Ethiopian (after the Ethiopian painted himself black). The Kangaroo gets its powerful hind legs, long tail, and hopping gait after being chased all day by a dingo, sent by a minor god responding to the Kangaroo's request to be made different from all other animals.

Presented Live in Voice.

SUNDAY, August 18th at 6PM: MAGICLAND STORYTIME

TONIGHT: The Conclusion of E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web" ... Wilbur and Charlotte are at the Fair, and the final moments of cementing Wilbur's future are at hand.  What will happen?

Come enjoy the emotional and touching conclusion of this beloved tale from a classic author!  Caledonia Skytower, Live in voice.

SUNDAY, July 21st at 6:00pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME!

Caledonia returns with Part 3 of E.B. White's beloved classic.

Charlotte has worked a miracle!  She's begin the process of transforming the Zuckerman's view of Wilbur to ensure he does not become just another pig waiting for slaughter.  She needs to work some more magic to ensure that the plan works and that Wilbur endures for many seasons to come - what spell will she weave to make this wish come true?

Presented Live in Voice

SUNDAY, July 7th at 6PM: MAGICLAND STORYTIME!

Caledonia continues with Part 2 of E.B. White's beloved classic: Wilbur has a new friend: a spider named Charlotte living on a web spun overlooking Wilbur's enclosure. Knowing of Wilbur's impending doom (the same fate as most barnyard pigs) Charlotte promises to hatch a plan guaranteed to spare his life and work a miracle.  Understanding that Wilbur's chances of survival will be strengthened if similar miracles were to occur, Charlotte employs the assistance of Templeton the barnyard rat in her plan to save Wilbur. 

Presented Live in Voice.

SUNDAY, June 30th at 6:00pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME

Caledonia begins E.B. White's Charlotte's Web - beloved by generations, Newbery Award-winning, and the best selling children's paperback of all time as of 2000.

After sparing the life of a baby piglet almost slaughtered due to his status as runt of the litter, a little girl named Fern Arable adopts it and nurtures it lovingly, naming it Wilbur. However, she is crushed when the piglet matures enough to be separated from his mother, and Wilbur is thus sent to reside on a farm owned by Fern's uncle, Homer Zuckerman. Her powerful attachment to Wilbur mutual, the pig is left yearning for companionship but is snubbed by other barn animals. However, he is welcomed by an unseen voice who promises to befriend him, vowing to reveal itself to him in the morning.

Presented live in voice.

SUNDAY, April 21st @ 6:00pm - MAGICLAND STORYTIME!

Caledonia continues with more favorites from author Gail Carson Levine ("Ella Enchanted") who casts a new spell on classic fairtyales.  The road to happily-ever-after is never easy. but the masterful wit of Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine will keep readers laughing their way through these fresh re-tellings of popular fairy tales.

TONIGHT: The conclusion of CINDERELLIS & THE GLASS HILL "What if" the Cinder maiden was a Cinder dude?.

Live in voice.

Sunday, April 14th @ 6:00PM: MAGICLAND STORYTIME

You thought you knew your favorite fairy tales ... Caledonia reprises favorites from author Gail Carson Levine ("Ella Enchanted") who casts a new spell on them.  The road to happily-ever-after is never easy. but the masterful wit of Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine will keep readers laughing their way through these fresh re-tellings of popular fairy tales.

TONIGHT: CINDERELLIS & THE GLASS HILL "What if" the Cinder maiden was a Cinder dude?.

Live in voice.