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Category: News & Updates

News & Updates New Story Collection: For the Love of Spice: Georgia Bean’s Method for Minding Mice
How does Georgia Bean manage to love and care for so many mice? Even the most spirited, "spicy" ones? 
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News & Updates Sparkle’s Holiday Gift Cards Are HERE!
This holiday season is a great one to introduce a child in your life to stories. We have four lovely gift cards you can print out after purchasing a gift subscription.
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News & Updates Meet the Pirates: Introduction to the Windward Stories
Meet the characters of the Windward Ho! collections...
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News & Updates Why Podcasts Make Your Kids Smarter
We all want our kids to be smart. We want them to be smart, strong, brave, and kind – and so, as parents, we then seek out opportunities, tools, methods, and strategies that might support that aim. My fathering tends to be very mathematical. If there is a goal, then there are component parts that will lead to fulfilling that goal.
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News & Updates Martin & Sylvia Paper Dolls!
Today we are excited to announce the release of the Martin & Sylvia printable paper dolls.
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News & Updates Three FREE Scripts for Magical Halloween Events
Imagine: it’s Halloween evening. You and your children join with friends on the edge of the woods, and follow a candle-lit path, in search of the answer to an exciting mystery.
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News & Updates Meet the Dory Horde
The Dory Horde: The City of Eight (Book Three) includes complex story lines and intricate family relationships – plus the narrative jumps episodically between different locations and characters! Here's a quick guide to everyone in the collection.
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Helping & Healing Best Streaming Services for Kids
Review the top options for streaming children’s content and compare with Sparkle Stories' carefully-crafted audio stories for kids.
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News & Updates The Thanksgiving Story: Vulnerability and Courage
For some of our stories of Gratitude and Thanksgiving, you can visit this page. Happy Thanksgiving!
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News & Updates How to use our Grief and Loss Stories
Children connect deeply with life and open their full hearts to every moment. When it is time to go, time to let go, time to say goodbye – they grieve. As parents and educators, it is our job to recognize this, to note it and acknowledge it.
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