"The Bookmender's Helper" from the So Many Fairies collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the So Many Fairies collection.
It's called "The Bookmender's Helper."
The bookmender works alone. He has always worked alone. And he has been happy enough over the years. But one day, a bedraggled girl with a very old and valuable book arrives at the door to his workshop, interrupting his solitary work. The whisperings of a paper fairy help the bookmender discover the true treasure that lives in both the book and the girl.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. I have yet another |
| 0:16.1 | fairy story for you. It's April. And like you may know, we celebrate fairies, everything fairy this month. |
| 0:24.0 | This story is called the Book Menders Helper, and it features a paper fairy. Did you know there were |
| 0:30.6 | fairies for paper? There are fairies for all sorts of things, not only trees and flowers and stones and brooks, but there are house fairies. |
| 0:43.2 | I think there are even special fairies that really enjoy delighting children. Either way, we have |
| 0:49.1 | lots of fairy stories here at Sparkle Stories, and this is my choice for today. So listen in and find out |
| 0:57.1 | what magic is being worked by a fairy in the story, the bookmenders helper. Before I share this story, |
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| 1:45.7 | the entire library. Again, that's SparklStories.com and click the button in the top right that says |
| 1:52.0 | start free trial. Okay, now onto the story, the Bookmenders helper from the so many fairies |
| 2:00.3 | collection. Enjoy. The Bookmender's Helper |
| 2:21.9 | On the third floor of a smoke-stained brick building |
| 2:28.2 | that was next to several other smoke-stained brick buildings. |
| 2:33.1 | There was a very small workshop of a bookmender. |
| 2:37.5 | This smoke-stained-brick building was in a part of the city that was known as the Trades District, |
| 2:45.1 | the place you would find, hat-makers, cobblers, smiths, tailors, and indeed, bookmakers, and menders. |
| 2:55.0 | The book-mender's workshop shared the floor with a luthier or guitar-maker and a calligrapher, |
| 3:02.3 | who was a master-writer. The book-mender worked worked alone and kept long hours, arriving very early in the |
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