The Moonlight Muralist
Maked Up Stories: Imaginative Kids Stories
Maked Up Stories
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
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In today's story, brothers Caspian and Silas stay up late to try to solve the mystery of the murals that appear overnight at the football field every year before the big game, as if by magic.
Some themes from today's story: conservation, redwood trees, friendship, and teamwork.
Maked Up Stories is a daily children’s bedtime stories podcast. Perfect for your bedtime routine, your commute, or for some high quality screen-free entertainment at home. Our interactive format will ignite your imagination. Rich vocabulary with plenty of context clues supports your child’s language development.
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Check out our sister podcast Maked Up Clubhouse, where all the storytellers are kids! https://open.spotify.com/show/1DJIjGsPGXvUi4Qmcima0K?si=8cb76c3e21b248d0
Love our intro and outro music? We do do! The song is Hishtadlus by Batya Levine and you can find more of her work on Spotify.
The children's story referenced in today's episode is The Night Gardener, by Terry and Eric Fan.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Makeup Stories. My name is Anuk. Go to MakeupStories.com to join the Makeup Club. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello and welcome to MakeDup. I'm your host, Amanda. |
| 0:27.6 | Today's story is a request from Silas and Cassian. |
| 0:32.6 | My name is Silas and I am five years old. My name is Cassian and I am five years old. |
| 0:38.0 | My name is Cassian and I am seven years old. |
| 0:41.8 | And we live in Minnesota. |
| 0:45.2 | And we would like a story about an artist, a football player, and an Australian Shepherd. |
| 0:52.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:54.0 | Say thank you again. Thank you. Thank you. Say thank you again. |
| 0:55.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:57.4 | Thank you, Silas and Cassian, for that awesome request. |
| 1:01.5 | I hope that you enjoy the story. |
| 1:03.8 | Today's story is written somewhat in the style of a story that Jonah, |
| 1:08.1 | Jesse, and I like, that you may have read. |
| 1:12.6 | While you're listening, see if you can recognize the story, and then at the end of the episode, I'll tell you which story I was |
| 1:17.4 | thinking of when I wrote this one. In the quiet valley of Rushford, Minnesota, where the bluffs touched the sky and the root river wound through the farmland, something magical happened every year. |
| 1:37.8 | On the morning of the big football game, a new mural appeared overnight on the school's stadium wall, bold and bright, filled with |
| 1:47.3 | swirling colors, and a watchful shepherd, the school's mascot. No one knew who painted it. |
| 1:54.6 | Some said it was the work of a secret artist. Others whispered it was the magic of the hills, |
| 2:03.7 | but no one ever saw it happen. And the strangest part? The mural always knew what the team needed. After a heartbreaking loss, |
| 2:10.4 | the shepherd stood in a storm, unshaken, its eyes fierce, a reminder to stand strong and keep moving forward. |
| 2:19.7 | After a season of many injuries and setbacks, |
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