Sparkle Stories Blog

When Mr. Brown gives the children a chance to care for Pinochle and Raspberry, his new sheep, they also have a chance to learn about empathy.

Mariah the Angus calf ignores the caution of others to stay away from the old horse next door and instead learns the secret to his "trick".

It's the Pie Festival! What kind of pie should Ben make? And will the mystery judge like it?

The cousins are coming! They only visit every few years, so the changes are BIG. It's not long before they remember, though, that cousins are special.

Martin & Sylvia try to throw their own Midsummer's Eve festival...

Malcolm the chipmunk's favorite thing in the world is to snuggle but his parents can't snuggle all the time so he finds ways to sneak in extra hugs and squeezes.

It turns out that the town of Greenhorn, Florida is attractive not only to humans and Martians but to a number of other interplanetary species as well. Who are all of these mysterious beings?

Piper is bored with the same old summer things until the willow tree leads her to Ireland where she learns to see the hidden magic between the cracks.

A dedicated fort keeper is the only enlisted man at an abandoned fort and one day he discovers an intruder — a young boy. After introducing himself, he finds everything changes...

Sylvia is excited - and also nervous - when she hears that the author of her favorite book is coming to visit the library.