"Fredland the Moose" from the Junkyard Tales collection

Sparkle Stories Podcast

Lisabeth Sewell

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week's featured story comes from the Junkyard Tales collection.

It's called "Fredland the Moose."

It is summer, and the Junkyard is hot — too hot to stay home. On the steamiest summer mornings, the Junkyard animals take a "holiday" visit to the nearby lake with its hills of blueberry bushes. One such morning, something unfortunate happens: Ben Thompson gets lost in the woods. It takes the kindness of a friendly and rather large forest animal to help the town cat find his way back to his friends.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast.
0:11.2	This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories.
0:13.5	So today, we have another listener favorite from someone who is near and dear to me.
0:19.6	He is one of the very, very, very first Sparkle Stories listeners.
0:24.2	In fact, he was listening to Sparkle Stories before they became Sparkle Stories. And he has his
0:29.7	very favorite summertime story for you today. But before I introduce him and let him share his
0:37.3	story, I want to encourage you to subscribe
0:40.2	if you haven't yet joined us.
0:43.3	All you have to do is go to the website, SparklStories.com, SparklStories.com, and in the
0:51.5	top right corner of every page, there's a button that says start free trial. Everybody
0:57.0	starts for free. And you can dive in and listen to our entire library of over 1,500 stories
1:03.0	with new ones that we just put out and new ones on the way. So give it a go, SparkleStories.com,
1:09.9	and click the Start Free Trial button a go, SparklStories.com, and click the start free trial button.
1:13.8	Okay, now here's today's listener favorite.
1:18.6	Hello, my name is Finn. I live in Burlington, Vermont. I am currently 20 years old,
1:25.1	and I have been a sparkler since I was around six years old.
1:30.2	I would say my favorite sparkle story would have to be Fredlin the Moose from Junkyard Tales
1:37.1	because I think it's my favorite summer story, and I just, I really love moose.
1:46.0	I hope you enjoy it. This is a story about a cat.
2:05.9	The cat's name was Benjamin Thompson, an unusual name for a cat, but Ben was an unusual cat.
2:15.3	This is also a story about a junkyard, a most unusual place that was home to a host of
2:24.0	unusual animals. Our story begins on a busted old couch near the entrance of the junkyard. Ben Thompson had made this couch his warm weather
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