This week's Free story comes from the Martin & Sylvia: How to Be a Superhero collection. It's called "Part One: Are Superheroes Real?"   When Martin and Sylvia learn about superheroes from their neighborhood friends, their curiosity is instantly piqued. What is a superhero? Are superheroes real? And what do Momma and Daddy means when they say there are real superheroes living in their own town?   If you want more than one story a day, and you’re not yet a subscriber, now you can try it out for free.  We always offer a free trial so you can test it and see if it’s for you.  This month’s code is SCREENFREE - and that will give you 30 days of listening.  That means for this screen free week, you can listen as often as you like to as many stories as you like!  Go to sparklestories.com/signup and use that code SCREENFREE.   Each week on the Sparkle Stories Podcast, we share a free story from one of our original story series! For many many many more stories like this one, visit the Sparkle website: www.sparklestories.com Questions?  Ideas?  Requests? Email us!  [email protected] Enjoy!

This week's Free story comes from the Libby & Dish collection. It's called "A Remarkable Discovery."   Libby and Dish figure out the perfect gift for their new neighbor Juan Paco — and then discover exactly what a cobayo is. And it is amazing.   If you want more than one story a day, and you’re not yet a subscriber, now you can try it out for free.  We always offer a free trial so you can test it and see if it’s for you.  This month’s code is SCREENFREE - and that will give you 30 days of listening.  That means for this screen free week, you can listen as often as you like to as many stories as you like!  Go to sparklestories.com/signup and use that code SCREENFREE.   Each week on the Sparkle Stories Podcast, we share a free story from one of our original story series! For many many many more stories like this one, visit the Sparkle website: www.sparklestories.com Questions?  Ideas?  Requests? Email us!  [email protected] Enjoy!

This week's Free story comes from The Willowbee Tree collection. It's called "Big Plans and Real Weather."   The Willowbees are deeply disappointed when they learn the Spring Festival has been postponed due to heavy rain. How frustrating it is when the weather doesn't cooperate! Their spirits are lifted a bit when the willow tree offers to take them to a new land. They go to the northern plains of the United States, where they learn from several bison and prairie dogs how to accept and honor the weather — whether you like it or not.   If you are enjoying the stories here on the podcast and want more, we have over 1400 of them!  All original. You can listen for free for 30 days with the code SPARKLEAPRIL. This month we’ve made a special page - sparklestories.com/april - where we have shared everything we’re up to this month - from stories to crafts and recipes. In fact, we’ve put several types of fairy house building instructions, so you can build your own fairy houses and see who comes to visit. Go to sparklestories.com/april and have a look at all the projects.  And if you want to sign up, it’s easy. Just use the code SPARKLEAPRIL and you can listen to as much as you like. In fact, we have 109 stories about fairies. That’s a lot of fairy stories.   Each week on the Sparkle Stories Podcast, we share a free story from one of our original story series! For many many many more stories like this one, visit the Sparkle website: www.sparklestories.com   Questions?  Ideas?  Requests? Email us!  [email protected] Enjoy!

This week's Free story comes from the Martin & Sylvia's Nature School It's called "All the Pretty Voices"   From the moment Martin got up in the morning, he found himself thinking about voices: how much he enjoyed Helmut's voice and how he sometimes found his sisters voice to be irritating. When he gets to Wilderness School, Eva teaches them another place where they can enjoy all the wonderful voices in nature: in birdsong.   If you are enjoying the stories here on the podcast and want more, we have over 1400 of them!  All original. You can listen for free for 30 days with the code SPARKLEAPRIL. This month we’ve made a special page - sparklestories.com/april - where we have shared everything we’re up to this month - from stories to crafts and recipes. In fact, we’ve put several types of fairy house building instructions, so you can build your own fairy houses and see who comes to visit. Go to sparklestories.com/april and have a look at all the projects.  And if you want to sign up, it’s easy. Just use the code SPARKLEAPRIL and you can listen to as much as you like. In fact, we have 109 stories about fairies. That’s a lot of fairy stories.   Each week on the Sparkle Stories Podcast, we share a free story from one of our original story series! For many many many more stories like this one, visit the Sparkle website: www.sparklestories.com   Questions?  Ideas?  Requests? Email us!  [email protected] Enjoy!

This week's Free story comes from the Martin & Sylvia's Whole World Easter collection. It's called "Part One: The Other Side of the World."   Martin and Sylvia begin a penpal relationship with Ruby and Angus who live south of Sydney, Australia. They learn a great deal, especially that the seasons in Australia are the opposite of their own.   If you are enjoying the stories here on the podcast and want more, we have over 1400 of them!  All original. You can listen for free for 30 days with the code SPARKLEAPRIL. This month we’ve made a special page - sparklestories.com/april - where we have shared everything we’re up to this month - from stories to crafts and recipes. In fact, we’ve put several types of fairy house building instructions, so you can build your own fairy houses and see who comes to visit. Go to sparklestories.com/april and have a look at all the projects.  And if you want to sign up, it’s easy. Just use the code SPARKLEAPRIL and you can listen to as much as you like. In fact, we have 109 stories about fairies. That’s a lot of fairy stories.   Each week on the Sparkle Stories Podcast, we share a free story from one of our original story series! For many many many more stories like this one, visit the Sparkle website: www.sparklestories.com   Questions?  Ideas?  Requests? Email us!  [email protected] Enjoy!

This week's Free story comes from the Martin & Sylvia: Saturdays! collection It's called "Spring Seeing."   Brother and sister take themselves on a Spring Seeing walk where they hunt for signs of spring. As they wander through the forest, they talk about the fairy life. Sylvia wonders if maybe this time she can see a fairy with her own eyes.   If you are enjoying the stories here on the podcast and want more, we have over 1400 of them!  All original. You can listen for free for 30 days with the code SPARKLEAPRIL. This month we’ve made a special page - sparklestories.com/april - where we have shared everything we’re up to this month - from stories to crafts and recipes. In fact, we’ve put several types of fairy house building instructions, so you can build your own fairy houses and see who comes to visit. Go to sparklestories.com/april and have a look at all the projects.  And if you want to sign up, it’s easy. Just use the code SPARKLEAPRIL and you can listen to as much as you like. In fact, we have 109 stories about fairies. That’s a lot of fairy stories.   Each week on the Sparkle Stories Podcast, we share a free story from one of our original story series! For many many many more stories like this one, visit the Sparkle website: www.sparklestories.com   Questions?  Ideas?  Requests? Email us!  [email protected] Enjoy!

This week's free story comes from the So Many Fairies collection. It's called "The Dusty Dirty Gnome."   If you’re not yet a Sparkle subscriber, join us.  Just visit sparklestories.com/march and use the code SPARKLEMARCH.  You can listen for free for a whole month - we now have 1400+ stories in our library!  Listen to as many as you like, as often as you like.   Buddy has a dirty room. His room is so dirty and dusty that he has trouble finding his clothes, his toys, and his games. And a dirty, dusty, cluttered room is the perfect spot for a Dusty Dirty Gnome to take up residence! After Buddy loses his favorite stuffed animal, Moosie, he has a dream about the Dusty Dirty Gnome who gives him a hint about where Moosie might be hiding. He wakes with a burning question, "What would things be like if everything in my room had its own place?"   Each week on the Sparkle Stories Podcast, we share a free story from one of our original story series! For many many many more stories like this one, visit the Sparkle website: www.sparklestories.com   Questions?  Ideas?  Requests? Email us!  [email protected] Enjoy!

This week's Free story comes from the By Thistle By Thimble collection.

It's called The Christmas Gifts.

A poor father and son who live in a hovel and work all day in order to afford food and necessities both plan their Christmas gifts for each other in secret. But when a flood washes their hard work away, Christmas magic works out the perfect solution.

 

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This week's free story comes from Martin & Sylvia's Christmastime collection.

It's called "Part One: The Christmas Garden."

Every year Martin and Sylvia’s family builds a Christmas-time Spiral Garden to celebrate the holiday season. This year, however, Martin and Sylvia want to do it themselves, without any help. Daddy is hesitant — building the spiral shaped stone path can be complicated and exhausting. But brother and sister are undaunted. Martin, in charge of the stones, finds out what it is to meet a challenge with determination and creativity.

Each week on the Sparkle Stories Podcast, we share a free story from one of our original story series!

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