"A Time for Play" from the Junkyard Tales collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the Junkyard Tales collection.
It's called "A Time for Play."
Dawn breaks and the Junkyard is covered in balls of ice. Ben Thompson learns all about "hail" and that it can lead to a lot of fun. Everyone joins in the fun, except the steadfast watchdog Sergeant. Can they entice him to play?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. It's Elizabeth from Sparkle Stories, and this is the Sparkle Stories |
| 0:12.6 | Podcast. This year, 26, we are dedicating our entire podcast to stories about connection and play that inspire |
| 0:24.9 | creativity and wonder. We really want to bring all of the values that we hold at Sparkle |
| 0:32.1 | Stories right here to the podcast in hopes that it makes your life more playful, more delicious, more |
| 0:40.3 | creative, more fun, more connective. So today, I have picked a Junkyard Tales story. If you're a |
| 0:46.6 | longtime listener, you will know Junkyard Tales and all of the delightful animal characters. |
| 0:52.5 | This is a story I've never put on the podcast. |
| 0:54.8 | It's called A Time for Play. |
| 0:58.0 | Yes, because I'm hoping to inspire a little extra play in your household. |
| 1:02.5 | This is a day at the junkyard in which everyone wakes up to ice. |
| 1:06.8 | It's actually hail. |
| 1:08.6 | And it gets everyone quite excited. |
| 1:11.7 | And they're curious to see if they can get the watchdog sergeant to play with them. |
| 1:18.2 | So listen in and find out what happens. |
| 1:21.2 | Before I share this story, I'd like to encourage you to subscribe. |
| 1:25.5 | If you're not yet a Sparkle subscriber, we have over 1,500 |
| 1:30.5 | original stories devoted to things like connection and wonder and love and kindness and play |
| 1:39.5 | and creativity and all things good. That is why we write those stories and share their stories because |
| 1:45.7 | we want to share our values with the world. So consider signing up. You just go to SparklStories.com |
| 1:54.7 | and click the button in the top right that says start free trial. Everyone starts for free |
| 2:00.6 | and then you can listen to our entire |
| 2:02.5 | library of over 1,500 stories as often as you like, as much as you like. It's all there for your |
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