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Hello, Sparkle friends. It's Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories.

And this is the Sparkle Stories podcast. Welcome. Welcome to our second week of Back to School Stories.

Over on the Sparkle website, I have pulled together, we have pulled together. It's a Sparkle team.

We have pulled together all of the best content for going back to school, getting ready in all the ways,

whether it's changing up your routine, or getting yourself ready for newness,

or getting yourself ready practically to be in school, or just the fun and excitement of going back to school.

We've got stories for you. This story that I've picked today is from the Libyan Dish Collection,

and it's called What Is School Time? And this has to do with getting into the Back to School energy,

or the Back to School routines, because one of the characters in this story can't wait to get back to it.

And another of the characters in this story really like the summertime routine.

So listen in, figure out who is who, and find out where they land about this whole Back to School business.

So the story you're about to hear is part of our giant library of nearly 1,500 original stories at Sparkle Stories.

That's a lot of stories. You can listen to all of these stories for free for a week.

Go to SparkleStories.com and 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.

All right now onto the story. What is school time from the Libyan Dish Collection? Enjoy.

Libyan Dish are best friends.

The two spend slow hours building pillow forts in her bedroom cozy corner

Organizing the crayons on the art table and watching the busy dog walkers from the comfort of their ninth floor apartment window

Libby is a five-year-old girl with curly chestnut hair and a big imagination

Dish is her silver gray cat and like many cats, he loves snacks and soft spots and the sun

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