"Johnny Shark" from the Sparkle Sleepytime collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the Sparkle Sleepytime collection.
It's called "Johnny Shark."
Johnny Shark loves to explore. His aunts and uncles often take him on adventures to see beautiful coral, deep caves, or gardens of seaweed. One day Johnny's uncle takes him to see a shipwreck and Johnny gets to do some exploring all on his own.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, friends, it's Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories with the Sparkle Stories podcast. Welcome. |
| 0:14.4 | This year, we are all about fun and play and adventure and connection and creativity and wonder and all those good |
| 0:26.4 | things that we hold dear at Sparkle Stories. I have picked an adventure story today called |
| 0:33.6 | Johnny Shark because I want to inspire your own sense of adventure here in January of |
| 0:40.5 | 26. This is from the Sparkle Sleepy Time Collection. So ultimately, this story will make you want to |
| 0:47.7 | curl up, snuggle up, and take a rest. It might be a good one to save for rest time. |
| 0:53.2 | Or you can just enjoy wherever you are. |
| 0:56.4 | This is a story about Johnny, the shark who loves to explore, and in this story, he gets to go on an extra special adventure with his uncle shark. |
| 1:07.8 | So listen in to this Johnny Shark sleepy time adventure. Before I share the story, I want to |
| 1:17.4 | encourage you to subscribe. If you're not yet a Sparkle subscriber, we have over 1,500 original |
| 1:24.9 | stories in the Sparkle Library. Some like this one are to help with rest time. |
| 1:30.6 | Some are just wonderful, delightful stories to be listened to at any time. And all of them are |
| 1:36.9 | just as delightful as the story you're about to hear. All you have to do is go to the SparkleStories |
| 1:41.7 | website, SparklStories.com, and click the button in the top right |
| 1:46.0 | that says Start Free Trial. Okay, now on to the story, Johnny Shark from the Sparkle Sleepy Time |
| 1:54.3 | Collection. Enjoy. Johnny Shark Once upon a time, there was a great white shark pup named Johnny, who lived with a |
| 2:22.9 | clan of other great white sharks near a small island in the sea. Johnny was one of the youngest |
| 2:32.1 | sharks in the clan, and as such was often taken on adventures and trips around the island to explore the coral reef or curious underwater caves. |
| 2:45.7 | You see, great white sharks are naturally curious creatures, and shark pups are especially curious. |
| 2:54.9 | Johnny loved these adventures. He loved to explore and to discover treasures. |
| 3:01.2 | He loved to poke his head into mysterious caverns or peek around cliffs of rock to be surprised by what he saw. |
| 3:10.3 | Sometimes it was a colorful bed of coral, and other times it was a school of silvery fish all swimming as one. |
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