"Dreaming the Garden" from the Martin & Sylvia: More Adventures! collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the Martin & Sylvia: More Adventures! collection.
It's called "Dreaming the Garden."
One wintery morning, Mr. Brown invites brother and sister to come to the farm for some "quiet work". They wonder - is it pruning? Building a new chicken coop? Making pies? But the quiet work is much more imaginative than they expect - they are going to help the garden dream.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. It's Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. |
| 0:14.1 | And we are heading into a new year. It's time for us to begin dreaming. What do we want in this new year? What would we like to do? |
| 0:23.6 | What would we like to create? Who would we like to see? Where would we like to go? Let's dream |
| 0:29.3 | together, shall we? I have picked a story about that very thing. It's called dreaming the garden, |
| 0:35.2 | and it's from the Martin and Sylvia More Adventures |
| 0:38.0 | Collection. It takes place on a wintry morning when Mr. Brown, Martin and Sylvia's neighbor, |
| 0:43.4 | invites the children over for some quiet work at the farm. And they're not sure what that |
| 0:48.8 | means. But when they get there, they realize it's an imaginative activity. |
| 0:58.0 | They are going to help the garden dream. |
| 1:00.7 | So let's do some dreaming, shall we? |
| 1:05.1 | Before I share the story, I want to encourage you to subscribe. |
| 1:11.2 | We have over 1,500 original stories here in the Sparkle Stories Library. |
| 1:15.9 | All of them is delightful and inspiring as the one you're about to listen to. |
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| 1:25.9 | Everybody starts for free, and then you can enjoy our entire library as much as you like, as often as you like, anytime you like. |
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| 2:08.6 | Click there and it has everything you need to know. Okay, now onto the story, dreaming the garden |
| 2:15.0 | from the Martin and Sylvia More Adventures collection. Enjoy. Dreaming the Gardens |
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