"Being Yourself" from The Willowbee Tree collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from The Willowbee Tree collection.
It's called "Being Yourself."
It is summertime, and the Willowbee children are enjoying a visit from their cousins. Piper and Little Ty love how their cousins like to play rowdy, noisy games, but Clancy does not. He tries to be more like the others, but it is difficult and tiring. When the willow tree takes him to the Galapagos Islands and introduces him to the many strange and unique animals there, Clancy learns the value of being himself.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. |
| 0:14.6 | And this year, we are featuring stories about all the things that Sparkle holds dear, like creativity and play and wonder |
| 0:26.4 | and connection. And this month I'm adding in love because it's February and we love to enjoy |
| 0:34.8 | stories of love at Sparkle Stories during the month of February. So this week, |
| 0:40.1 | we're talking all about loving yourself, loving all of who you are. You are a marvelous being. |
| 0:46.0 | And so I've picked a story called Being Yourself. It's from the Willoughby Tree collection. |
| 0:51.6 | Now, if you don't know the Willoughby Tree, it's about three siblings, |
| 0:55.4 | Piper, Clancy, and Little Tie. And they have adventures because they have this magical tree that |
| 1:02.0 | takes them all over the world. This story is about Clancy, because he's trying really hard to be |
| 1:08.0 | like other people, but he's not very happy. He feels |
| 1:11.0 | uncomfortable in himself. And so he gets to go to the Galapagos Island through the magic of |
| 1:16.9 | that willow tree. And there he meets a few strange and unique animals that take him on quite |
| 1:23.9 | a journey about learning to enjoy and love and appreciate all of who he is. Okay. Are you ready? |
| 1:34.1 | Before I share this story, I want to encourage you to subscribe. If you're not yet a subscriber, |
| 1:41.0 | I know I say this at the beginning of every story, but I can't say enough about the value of having access to all 1,500 Sparkle Stories and really diving into our entire library. |
| 1:52.2 | Every story is delightful in its own way, just like the one you're about to hear. |
| 1:57.4 | And it's really easy. Everyone starts for free. You just go to SparklStories.com and click the button |
| 2:03.4 | in the top right that says start free trial. You'll have immediate access to our entire library and |
| 2:08.9 | you can listen to as much as you like, as often as you like. Okay, now here's the story, |
| 2:15.6 | being yourself from the Willow Be Tree Collection. Enjoy. Being Yourself |
| 2:37.0 | In the backyard of an ordinary house on an ordinary street in an ordinary town. |
| 2:48.0 | There was once a most extraordinary tree. It was an enormous willow tree, |
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