"Part Six: Nanni's Story" from the Martin & Sylvia's Family Tree of Stories collection

Sparkle Stories Podcast

Lisabeth Sewell

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week's featured story comes from the Martin & Sylvia's Family Tree of Stories collection.

It's called "Part Six: Nanni's Story."

Nanni's story is about how she loved to sing to horses when her father, a large animal vet, was treating them. The horses always responded. When her father took her to the Kentucky Derby to treat one of the competing horses, a most incredible opportunity presented itself. This is a story about what magic can happen when you authentically wish to help others.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast.
0:10.8	It's Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories, and I'm so glad you're here.
0:15.2	It's November now, and we are taking the entire month of November to enjoy and celebrate family and community.
0:24.7	We know how deeply important our people are, our family members, our friends, our neighbors.
0:31.4	We're starting this week by celebrating our elders, our grandparents, the people in our lives that walk through the world
0:40.5	in older bodies because they are so deeply important to our communities. I'm choosing a story from
0:48.7	Martin and Sylvia's family tree of stories. It's called Nanny's story. And Nanny is Martin and Sylvia's grandmother.
0:56.7	And in this story, she tells a story about her childhood. And it's a beautiful representation of how
1:04.8	the stories of our older people, of our grandparents, of our older neighbors, of the older people we encounter
1:12.5	in the shops and on the streets, how their stories can really inspire and impact our lives.
1:21.3	And in the story, Nanny, there's always magic, right? It's Sparkle Stories. So Nanny tells a
1:26.3	story about how when she was little,
1:29.1	she loved to go to work with her father, who was a veterinarian, and he treated horses. So this
1:36.0	story is not only a wonderful story from an elder, but it's a magical story about a little girl
1:41.7	singing to horses. So listen in and see if it doesn't inspire you too.
1:48.7	Before I share the story, I want to encourage you to join us and subscribe if you're not yet a
1:55.1	Sparkle subscriber. It's really easy and everyone starts for free. You just go to the top right corner of our website, SparklStories.com.
2:06.2	In that top right corner is a little red button that says start free trial. Once you've subscribed, you can listen to our entire library of well over 1,500 stories, all of which
2:19.4	are just as meaningful and delightful of the one you're about to hear. Okay, now, onto the
2:27.7	story, Nanny's Story from Martin and Sylvia's Family Tree of Stories.
2:34.6	Enjoy.
2:59.0	Family Tree of Stories, Part 6. Nanny's Story. The rest of the afternoon was busy with swimming, going out to dinner at the Weber's
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