Narration Scripts Example: Fairy Tales

If you’re looking for a script to inspire you, look no further. Whether you’re a voice actor in need of a voice over practice script or a scriptwriter looking for examples that will light your creative fire, these narration sample scripts for fairy tale audiobooks have been assembled just for you.

Note: These sample scripts focus on the audiobook industry and include both fictional and public-domain classics of children’s fairy tales.

In this article

1. For Clients Looking for Fairy Tale Audiobook Scripts
2. For Voice Actors Looking for Fairy Tale Audiobook Scripts
3. White Knights Sample Script
4. The Velveteen Rabbit Sample Script
5. The Firelight Fairy Book Sample Script
6. The Princess and the Goblin Sample Script

For Clients Looking for Fairy Tale Audiobook Scripts

These fairy tale commercial scripts include specifications like voice age, gender, job description, language, role, accent, etc., similar to voice over job postings on Voices. 

So, if you’re looking for a voice actor, the next time you post a job on Voices, you’ll know what job posting format will attract the best auditions. This formatting helps voice actors understand your overall vision and bring it to life in their read.

For Voice Actors Looking for Fairy Tale Audiobook Scripts

Feel free to use these fairy tale audiobook sample scripts for your demo and/or for practice! Keep in mind that when auditioning for jobs, it is recommended to only provide a small portion of the read in your audition. For example, a 7 to 15-second read of a 30-second script will suffice.

White Knights Sample Script

60-Second Fairy Tale Sample Script:

To her surprise, Maria was beginning to grow attached to the wondrous new land she had found herself in. 

She missed her herd back home, of course. She also missed the sweet taste of the bluegrass in the valley where she was raised. 

But she liked walking around and leaving hoof prints in the freshly fallen snow. She liked gazing at the tall tower that rose up from behind the castle walls and imagining what magnificent view it offered out onto the kingdom grounds. But most of all, she liked her new friend.

One day, she asked the White Knight whether he might allow her to climb the tower to see if she could spot her homeland off in the distance.

“Well, Maria,” the Knight responded with slight hesitation. “You see, the staircase leading up to the tower is very narrow, and I’m not sure that a four-legged cow like yourself would be capable of making the trip up.”

“Never say never,” proclaimed Maria, as she instantly stood upright on her hind legs and began marching toward the castle gates.

30-Second Fairy Tale Sample Script:

As fresh snow blanketed the grounds of the kingdom, the White Knight gazed out upon the sprawling valley, sighed to himself, and said: “I must be the loneliest knight in all of the land.” 

All of a sudden, the White Knight spotted a strange creature wandering up the snowy path towards him. As the distance between the knight and the creature shrank, he saw that it was a cow. 

“Who goes there?” the White Knight stammered. To his surprise, a gentle voice responded. “It is I, Maria, a calf who has found herself far from home.”

Listen to a read of this sample script performed by Aleesha Bake:

You can also hear this fairy tale audiobook script come to life in an episode of Mission Audition, where voice actor and coach Joe Loesch reviews a handful of auditions by voice actors performing their best reads of this very script.

15-Second Fairy Tale Sample Script:

Once upon a time, in a magical kingdom surrounded by a vast valley, there lived a young squire who dreamed of becoming a knight. Every day, the squire carried out his daily duties, patiently awaiting the day he could prove his worth and pass into knighthood.

The Velveteen Rabbit Sample Script

60-Second Fairy Tale Sample Script:

It was light now, for the moon had risen. The forest was beautiful, and the fronds of the bracken shone like frosted silver. In the open glade between the tree trunks, the wild rabbits danced with their shadows on the velvet grass, but when they saw the Fairy they all stopped dancing and stood round in a ring to stare at her.

“I’ve brought you a new playfellow,” the Fairy said. “You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbit-land, for he is going to live with you forever and ever!”

And she kissed the little Rabbit and put him down on the grass.

“Run and play, little Rabbit!” she said.

The Firelight Fairy Book Sample Script

60-Second Fairy Tale Sample Script:

The Prince journeyed on, spending days traveling, and his nights in little wayside inns… ‘till one day, he found himself in the heart of the Adamant Mountains.

The great, red, granite crags of the surrounding peaks rose out of the gleaming snow like ugly fingers, and the slopes of giant glaciers sparkled in the sun like torrents of diamonds.

The Prince sat down by some stunted trees, whose tops had been broken off a long time ago by an avalanche, and began to eat the bit of bread and cheese that he had stored in his pocket. Meanwhile, his black horse ate the grass, which grew here and there along the mountain path. And, as the Prince sat there, in the bright sun and the silence of the mountains, he became aware of a low, continuous roaring.

“There must be a waterfall near-by,” said the Prince to himself. “I’ll go and see it.”

30-Second Fairy Tale Sample Script:

Once upon a time, the King’s youngest son became filled with the desire to go abroad, and see the world. He got his father’s permission to leave on an adventure, kissed his parents goodbye, mounted his black horse, and galloped away down the high road. Soon the grey towers of the old castle, in which he had been born, disappeared behind him.

The Princess and the Goblin Sample Script

60-Second Fairy Tale Narration Script:

Perhaps my readers may be wondering what the goblins could be about, working all night long, seeing they never carried up the ore and sold it; but when I have informed them concerning what Curdie learned the very next night, they will be able to understand.

For Curdie had determined, if his father would permit him, to remain there alone this night—and that for two reasons: first, he wanted to get extra wages in order that he might buy a very warm red petticoat for his mother, who had begun to complain of the cold of the mountain air sooner than usual this autumn; and second, he had just a faint glimmering of hope of finding out what the goblins were about under his window the night before.

When he told his father, he made no objection, for he had great confidence in his boy’s courage and resources.

“I’m sorry I can’t stay with you,” said Peter; “but I want to go and pay the parson a visit this evening, and besides I’ve had a bit of a headache all day.”

These audition files were recorded by real Voices members, as part of Voices’s Mission Audition podcast. In this podcast, the team at Voices exposes what exactly makes a good (and not so good) voice over audition. Listen to this episode to hear how experts have critiqued each performance, and discover who ‘won the job.’