Sparkle Stories Blog

Visitors are returning to Martin and Sylvia's house — friends they haven’t seen in a year! When one of those friends isn't as kind as Martin remembers, Daddy gives him great advice about teasing and everything changes.

It is a very hot day at the Junkyard, and the animals are out of sorts. The Rowland raccoon family can help!

Maggie the cicada grub patiently awaits her time to emerge from under the tree into the world.

When everyone wakes with a separate project in mind, each need help but no one feels they have space to offer any. What to do?

There's a children's’ drawing contest to celebrate Animal Week at the library. Martin wants to enter, but Pickles won't sit still for him to draw and there are no other animals around. What will Martin do?

The Dusty Dirty Gnome makes Buddy wonder: "What would things be like if everything in my room had its own place?"

Martin spends the day trying to find two identical apples.

In a land where being a Fool was a position of honor of respect, certain Fools began to forget how to use their "fools" skills to entertain the people, until a newcomer reminds them of their true purpose.

When the son of a wealthy merchant leaves to become a teacher to the poor, he cuts ties with his mother. Years later, she goes to see him and the journey transforms her.

When the green ash tree is dying, Grandfather remembers when another tree was dying and how he called the help of the fairies.