Syd's programs of folk tales from around the world feature audience participation. A family program might include some of the following tales:
- The Three Magic Oranges
- A Costa Rican version of Snow White
- Little Burnt Face
- A Native American version of Cinderella
- The Silly Bridegroom
- A Jack tale
- Phaethon
- The Greek myth of the boy who tries to drive the sun across the sky
- Wiley and the Hairy Man
- A trickster tale of a swamp monster
- Casey at the Bat
- The classic poem about baseball
- The Wise Shoemaker of Studena
- A lesson about judging people by their clothes
- Anansi the Spider
- The crafty spider with tricks up every sleeve