"The Junkyard Feast: A Story of Thanksgiving" from the Junkyard Tales collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the Junkyard Tales collection.
It's called "The Junkyard Feast: A Story of Thanksgiving."
It is time for the annual Junkyard Feast. In this autumn celebration, the Junkyard animals cook special dishes in gratitude for all they have given each other throughout the year. All of the Junkyard animals enjoy this feast except one: Sergeant. He is always away for this special event, celebrating Thanksgiving with the Junkyard Warden and his family. When Ben, clever cat, learns this, he insists they do something special for the steadfast watchdog who keeps the Junkyard safe … all year long.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, friends. Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories |
| 0:12.3 | in the third week of November with another story to celebrate and enjoy family and community. |
| 0:23.2 | Here in the United States, we are headed towards the American holiday of Thanksgiving, which is our favorite time to be really grateful for the |
| 0:30.0 | people in our world, for our family, for our friends, for our communities. And this story is |
| 0:36.1 | such a delightful celebration of that. It's called the |
| 0:40.4 | junkyard feast, a story of Thanksgiving from junkyard tales. And if you don't know junkyard |
| 0:46.7 | tales, oh my goodness, the characters in these stories are just so dear. In this story, it's time |
| 0:53.4 | for the annual autumn celebration, the feast in which all the |
| 0:57.1 | animals share special dishes and gratitude for all they have given each other throughout the year. |
| 1:04.2 | And this year, there's a challenge. There's a challenge. I'm not going to tell you what it is. |
| 1:09.6 | But if you know the junkyard tales, |
| 1:11.1 | you will know that the community comes together to solve it. And it's always such a delicious |
| 1:17.7 | solution. So the junkyard feast, a story of Thanksgiving, is here to inspire your own sense |
| 1:26.0 | of love for family and community. |
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