"Kings and Queens of the Forest" from the Martin & Sylvia's Nature School collection.
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the Martin & Sylvia's Nature School collection.
It's called "Kings and Queens of the Forest."
When Martin leaves for Wilderness School, he can't help but feel envious for Sylvia's project with Daddy: preparing for May Day by building a huge bonfire and cooking Beltane Bannock Bread. This has his attention all morning until Eva gives his group an inspiring May Day question: What kind of King or Queen of the Forest do you want to be? His answer helps Martin understand not only the gift of May Day, but of leadership itself.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. Here we are at the end of April. And a few days from now, it's May 1st. Here at Sparkle Stories, we love May 1st because it's May Day. |
| 0:25.0 | We love to celebrate May Day here because what's better than a Maypole and dancing and flower |
| 0:32.5 | crowns and bannock bread and bonfires and all of it? |
| 0:37.2 | So if you don't know what I'm talking about, |
| 0:38.7 | I'm just going to suggest you press play on this story. But if you do, you'll especially enjoy |
| 0:44.1 | the Martin and Sylvia's story I've picked. It's called Kings and Queens of the Forest. It's |
| 0:49.8 | from the Nature School Collection. And of course, the family and their friends are going to have a |
| 0:56.1 | great time getting ready for a seasonal festival called May Day. Here's a little extra. |
| 1:03.4 | You want to do a little something special. After listening to this story, you can do one of two things. |
| 1:09.0 | You can make flower crowns or you can make Bannock bread, both mentioned in the |
| 1:15.1 | story. All you have to do is go to SparkleStories.com and search flower crowns or search |
| 1:23.3 | bannock bread. And you will find the tutorial or the recipe for those projects. It's a little extra |
| 1:30.6 | super fun. If you don't know here at Sparkle Stories, we have lots of fun projects that go with |
| 1:35.4 | our stories, and I thought that would be a fun one to mention. Before I press play, I want to |
| 1:40.9 | encourage you to subscribe. If you're not yet a subscriber to Sparkle Stories, |
| 1:45.0 | you need to know that every one of our 1,500 stories is just as delightful as this one. We have |
| 1:51.6 | them for ages 3 to 9 and up. And when you subscribe, you can listen to as much as you like, |
| 1:58.1 | as often as you like. You have access to our entire library. |
| 2:01.3 | So go to SparklStories.com and click the button in the top right that says start free trial. |
| 2:08.6 | Okay, now on to the story, Kings and Queens of the Forest from Martin and Sylvia's Nature School. |
| 2:15.8 | Happy May Day and enjoy. |
| 2:32.8 | Kings and Queens of the Forest |
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