"Introduction Part One: The Lion's Eye." from The Willowbee Tree collection

Sparkle Stories Podcast

Lisabeth Sewell

Audio, Kids & Family, Stories, Stories For Kids, Children, Kids

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week's free story comes from The Willowbee Tree collection.
It's called "Introduction Part One: The Lion's Eye."

In the backyard of an ordinary house on an ordinary street in an ordinary town, there was once a most extraordinary tree. It was an enormous willow tree and in the middle of its trunk there was a hole. And if you found yourself near that willow tree with a certain wonder stirring in your heart, you might notice a colorful sparkle coming from that hole. And what was that sparkle? An invitation to go somewhere long ago and far far away.

This is part one of the Willowbee introduction, called “The Lion’s Eye”

Six year old Clancy, notices something strange about the willow tree in the back yard of his new house. Could that be a glow coming from the center of the tree? On closer inspection, he finds a large hole and discovers that it leads him to a wonderful land where animals talk and a little boy can play games with giddy zebras, a joyful baboon and a very persnickety lion.

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0:00.0	The Oh, Hi Sparkle Friends, this is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. This first week of August we are doing a feature that includes both
0:39.0	travel around the world and animals, all sorts of animals.
0:44.0	So if you're an animal person
0:46.0	and you would like to explore different countries,
0:49.0	this is the week for you.
0:50.0	And it's all captured in one collection called the Willoughby Tree.
0:55.0	The Willoughby Tree is about three children. There's a big sister, a middle
1:00.2	brother, and a younger brother, and they have this extraordinary tree in their
1:04.2	yard and if you find yourself near that tree with a certain oh question or
1:09.5	concern or wonder in your heart, the tree starts to sparkle and invites you right
1:16.2	through a giant hole into another wonderful place in the world. And in these
1:21.2	stories, the children meet animals from everywhere.
1:26.0	And it's a wonderful collection.
1:28.0	We don't feature it very often.
1:29.0	And I wonder why, because it's really truly delightful and funny.
1:33.0	So this is the very first story we ever wrote from the Willowbee Tree
1:37.3	collection. It's called the Lion's Eye.
1:39.6	And you'll get to go with six-year-old Clancy when he first notices something strange
1:44.7	about that willow tree in the yard.
1:47.6	Listen in and find out about his first big adventure. If you're enjoying the stories here on the Sparkle Stories podcast,
1:56.5	consider coming on over and becoming a subscriber.
1:59.8	We have almost 1,500 stories in our library.
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