The Oh, Hello and welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast podcast this is Elizabeth of sparkle stories and this is our very first

podcast episode in 2024 can you believe it? It's so exciting. Here at Sparkle Stories, we have all

sorts of cool things we're working on this year, but I've decided that this is a year to be kinder, to be warmer, to be more loving, but also to take a few more extra adventures.

My boys are both taking big adventures this year and I want to too.

So I have picked a story adventure to start the new year. This is the very first story of the Dory Hoard series. There are a lot of different

what we call books in the Dory Hoard series. They're all audio story collections, of course. But this is the very first story that kicks them off. The story is called the long ride north. Now the Dory

Hoard is about a mom and her five kids and they all have their own incredible

and a little bit unusual superpowers and they're living this quiet life in the woods and they get this phone call one day that their grandfather has suddenly died and they have to take this long journey from Kentucky to his mysterious estate in the Yukon territory, but they don't know why.

And so this story kicks off really hours and hours and hours of story adventure. So jump in

with this one and get started.

So the story you're just about to listen to

is a part of our giant library of original audio stories. We have almost 1,500 original stories here at

Sparkle stories. That's a lot of really sweet stories and you can enjoy them all for free for a week.

All you have to do is go to sparkle stories.

Click the button at the top that says start free trial and then you can listen to as much as you like anytime

you like. Okay onto the story episode one the long North, from the Dory Hoard collection called The Gilded Dragon.

Enjoy. Oh, you know.

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Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Aroa Dory and her five children sat on the fold-out seating of their train cabin still and silent as they processed what the conductor had just told them.

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