"Part One: Looking Out the Window" from the Libby & Dish: Dish's Inside-Outside Adventure collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the Libby & Dish: Dish's Inside-Outside Adventure collection.
It's called "Part One: Looking Out the Window."
Dish enjoys his cozy life in the apartment — his regular meals, his warm spots in the sunshine, his snuggles with Libby. But when Libby and her mom head out on an adventure, Dish begins reminiscing about his days as a young outdoor cat … and begins to make plans to explore the world outside the apartment once more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm so glad you're here as we continue our year of your favorite stories. |
| 0:18.7 | I don't have to do much of an introduction on this one because our sparkler does |
| 0:23.8 | such an amazing job introducing and describing her favorite collection. But what I will say is if you're |
| 0:31.9 | not yet a sparkle subscriber, consider joining us. It's very easy and everyone starts for free. You get access to our entire library |
| 0:42.6 | of over 1,500 original and delightful stories. You can listen as much as you like. |
| 0:50.3 | Anytime you like, you just go to the Sparkle Stories website, SparklStories.com, and click the button at the top that says start free trial. |
| 1:00.7 | All right now, here is this week's Sparkler to introduce her favorite story. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Ada and I'm from Rockville, Maryland. Dishes Inside Outside Adventure has been my |
| 1:13.3 | favorite Sparkle Stories collection for years. I love the Dish is the main character. His |
| 1:17.8 | adventures are both fun and exciting. I hope you enjoy it. Dishes Inside Outside Adventure, Part 1. |
| 1:46.5 | Looking out the window. |
| 1:51.8 | Libby and Dish are best friends. |
| 1:55.0 | The two spend slow hours building pillow forts in her bedroom cozy corner, |
| 2:00.4 | organizing the crayons on the art table, and |
| 2:03.2 | watching the busy dog walkers from the comfort of their ninth-floor apartment window. |
| 2:10.8 | Libby is a five-year-old girl with curly chestnut hair and a big imagination. |
| 2:17.2 | Dish is her silver-gray cat, and, like many cats, he |
| 2:21.2 | loves snacks and soft spots in the sun, but what makes Dish special is his keen mind for plans. |
| 2:32.0 | Dish's life in the apartment was, on the whole, pretty consistent. |
| 2:38.1 | Libby's mother's days, so far as he could tell, were not very consistent. |
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