"Between Friends" from the Junkyard Tales: All Together Now collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the Junkyard Tales: All Together Now collection. It's called "Between Friends."
Spiro has a very rough morning: he is stuck by a quill, his food is frozen and he slips on the ice. Zippy also has a bad start - he falls down an icy slope and loses his stash of birch bark. When they finally meet that morning, they take out their frustrations on each other - and it takes the work of all the Junkyard friends to help them resolve what happens.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome. |
| 0:09.2 | It's the Sparkle Stories podcast. |
| 0:11.4 | This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. |
| 0:13.5 | And here in the fourth week of February, we are celebrating friends, the beauty of deep friendship and how to be a good friend. |
| 0:25.6 | In this February month of love, we are taking a whole week on friends. |
| 0:31.6 | Now, I've picked a junkyard tale story because if you know junkyard tales, you will know that |
| 0:37.0 | those animals know how to be |
| 0:39.1 | friends to each other, how to take sweet care of each other. This story is called between friends. |
| 0:45.3 | And it features Spiro the Skunk. Do you know Junkyard Tales? Because if you do, you know Spiro the Skunk. |
| 0:51.8 | He's one of everybody's favorites. And in this story, he's had a |
| 0:55.1 | terrible morning. He's been stuck by a quill. His food is frozen. He slips on the ice. His friend Zippy |
| 1:01.6 | has also had a bad start. And so when they meet, oh my goodness, it's just a pile of frustrations. |
| 1:08.2 | And so what happens? Those junkyard friends get to helping. And you know how |
| 1:15.1 | that goes. So listen in and find out about Spiro and Zippy's terrible start to the day. And what |
| 1:22.1 | happens between friends? Okay, now before I share this story, I want to encourage everyone to consider subscribing |
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