River Reads has been recognized as the recipient of a national award, the Broadcast Dialogue’s Canadian Radio Awards: Winning- Best Podcast in the Small Market category. This award is granted to the producer, on-air personality, or team who demonstrate creativity, originality and excellence in podcasting! We would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to everyone at River Reads for this exceptional achievement.

Not a kids show but not not a kids show. Listener discretion advised.

This week on River Reads, Episode 17 - And the Award Goes To. Host narrator, River Wilde, is reading in no particular order, from The Blue Fairy Book: The Rabbit and The Little Squirrel (aka. Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess (Lang); The History of Jack the Giant Killer (Lang); and Why the Sea is Salt (Lang).

River Reads is a program where those of all ages can escape into bedtime stories and fairy tales; both new and old, but mostly old and at times macabre, or silly, or even perhaps a little confusing as written in old english, and then there’s those stories whose premises or message has perhaps not aged as well over the years, let’s face it you can’t be too picky when you’re dependent upon material available to you through creative commons.

This week's Fairytales:

1. Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess.  The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green and Co. 1889. This edition, printed in Great Britain by Cambridge University Press. 2003 Printing.
2. The History off Jack the Giant Killer.   The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green and Co. 1889. This edition, printed in Great Britain by Cambridge University Press. 2003 Printing.
3. Why the Sea is Salt.   The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green and Co. 1889. This edition, printed in Great Britain by Cambridge University Press. 2003 Printing.