PROMISES & PERCEPTION · ENGLISH · 13:37
The Frog Prince
A promise made beside a well comes knocking at the palace door.
An English telling of the Brothers Grimm’s tale, with Iron Henry’s steadfast loyalty quietly holding the story together.
A frog offers to retrieve a princess’s golden ball in exchange for her companionship. She agrees and runs home. When he follows her to the palace, a bargain she hoped to forget becomes impossible to ignore. This edition follows The Frog King, or Iron Henry, including Henry’s part in the ending.
Begin with listening.
Free English audiobook with music and sound design.
THE ILLUSTRATED AUDIOBOOK
See the world of the story.
PAINTED MOMENTS
All 60 story illustrations.
AI-assisted illustrations from TQF Studio’s edition.
A MOMENT FOR YOURSELF
A question to carry with you.
When has a promise asked more of you than you expected? A studio reflection, separate from the original tale.
SOURCE & PRODUCTION
Every telling has a history.
Original tale: The Frog King, or Iron Henry, Brothers Grimm, Kinder- und Hausmärchen, seventh edition, 1857, KHM 1. English translation and production: TQF Studio (Tan Quy Family), with AI-assisted translation and imagery and synthetic narration created with Google AI Studio.
For adult listeners. This edition retains dark events from the Grimm tale. Studio reflections are presented separately from the tale.
Music & sound credits
Music: Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 and Prelude Op. 28 No. 13. Recordings from Musopen / The Complete Chopin Collection, Internet Archive; performers unidentified. CC0 1.0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Source: https://archive.org/details/musopen-chopin
Forest ambience: Forest Wind with Birds Singing by Eryliaa, used within the finished sound mix under the Pixabay Content License. https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/nature-forest-wind-with-birds-singing-364368/
License: https://pixabay.com/service/license-summary/
Sound effects include CC0 recordings from Joseph Sardin / BigSoundBank, Kenney, rubberduck and laleksic / OpenGameArt. Recordings are edited with excerpts, gain changes, fades and mixing.