"The Magic Birthday Candles" from The So Many Fairies collection.
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the So Many Fairies collection.
It's called "The Magic Birthday Candles."
Sarah Jane's friends love all her fancy toys and her big playroom, but she would rather play "Hide-and-Seek" or "Explorers", or tag — and not cars or dolls. On her sixth birthday, surrounded by her friends, she makes a birthday wish that inspires a certain fire fairy to create some unique birthday magic for the whole party.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast, everyone. It's Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. Hello. Today's story |
| 0:14.2 | continues in our April celebration of fairies. All things fairy this month, but this one includes some birthday fun. The story is called |
| 0:24.6 | the magic birthday candles, and it's from the so many fairies collection. Did you know we have a |
| 0:29.3 | whole collection just devoted to fairy stories? Well, this is a story from that collection, |
| 0:34.1 | and it's about a little girl and her birthday and some delighted friends and a little extra |
| 0:40.5 | magic. So listen in because I find this one to be particularly fun. I've never shared it on the |
| 0:46.8 | podcast before. Before I share this story, I want to encourage you if you're not yet a subscriber to join us. We have over |
| 0:57.7 | 1,500 original stories just like this one. And it's really easy. You just go to SparklStories.com |
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| 1:33.5 | Again, that's SparklStories.com and click the button in the top right that says start free trial. |
| 1:40.6 | Okay, now onto the story, the magic birthday candles from the so many fairies collection. |
| 1:46.3 | Enjoy. |
| 2:06.5 | The magic... The Magic Birthday Candles In the middle of a great city |
| 2:11.1 | Next to a wide park of trees, bridges, and an old-time cobbled road, there was a very tall apartment building. |
| 2:23.3 | The apartment building was taller than most of the buildings in that part of the city, |
| 2:28.6 | and this gave the apartment on the very tip-top, the best view of everything around it. |
| 2:37.4 | The Mickelson family owned this apartment, where Mr. and Mrs. Mickelson lived with their |
| 2:45.0 | daughter, Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane's bedroom and playroom faced toward the wide park and its trees, bridges, and cobbled road. |
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