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Dial-A-Story

​​Do you want to hear a story from YCL staff at any time?

Call the Library’s Dial-A-Story phone line at 803-620-8585. You'll hear stories for adults, teens, and children, as well as music and songs, poetry, jokes and riddles, history tidbits, trivia, and more! You can also listen online via the links below as stories become available.

Dial-A-Story Picks May 2026

Children

00:00 / 15:29

"The Grateful Animals: A Buddhist Story from India," retold by Marguerite Aspinwall

00:00 / 13:40

"Maui Lifting the Sky: A Hawaiian and Polynesian Tale," retold by William Drake Westervelt

00:00 / 12:40

"Moko and the Twelve Little Earth Men: A Folktale from East Asia," retold by Charles H. Meeker

00:00 / 13:24

"The Weaver of the Frost: A Japanese Folk Tale," by Ken Nakazawa

Teens

00:00 / 44:10

"The Enchanted Castle: Fairy Tales from Flowerland," by Howard E. Altemus

00:00 / 3:48:37

"Flower Fables," by Louisa May Alcott

00:00 / 49:35

"The Flower Princess," by Abbie Farwell Brown

00:00 / 01:15

"Sunflowers," by Lottie Brown Allen

Adults

00:00 / 02:26

"Beggar Boy," "My Loves," and "To a Dead Friend," by Langston Hughes

00:00 / 33:07

"The Mirror of Matsuyama: A Japanese Folk Tale," retold by Yei Theodora Ozaki

00:00 / 03:18

"Monday or Tuesday," by Virginia Woolf

00:00 / 59:15

"The Red-Headed League," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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