"The Pie Festival" from the Junkyard Tales collection

Sparkle Stories Podcast

Lisabeth Sewell

Audio, Kids & Family, Stories, Stories For Kids, Children, Kids

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week's featured story comes from the Junkyard Tales collection.
It's called "The Pie Festival."

Ben Thompson, clever cat, wakes to a buzz of activity in the Junkyard: today is the day of the Pie Festival! On this eventful day, each of the junkyard animals makes their own particular pie, and at the end of the day, the pies are judged. And, the identity of the judge is a secret! But what kind of pie should Ben Thompson make? The diets and tastes of all the junkyard animals are so different! In the end, Ben makes an original pie that will win the attention of at least one junkyard animal.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories.
0:13.0	And this is our year of your favorite stories. So this episode is another one of your favorites, and it comes from a girl named Natty
0:23.5	May. Natty May lives in Fort Worth, Texas, and is 13 years old. And she says, my absolute favorite
0:33.3	Sparkle Stories episode is called the Pie Festival. And I might add, she wrote a little,
0:40.5	you guys are amazing as well. Thank you so much for that, Natty May. So I also love this story,
0:48.5	this junkyard tale story, along with all of the other junkyard tell stories, those characters give us a good laugh.
0:59.0	Okay, the story you're about to hear is one of over 1,500 original stories on the Sparkle Stories website.
1:06.9	So if you're not yet a subscriber, consider joining us.
1:14.6	Everyone starts for free. All you have to do is go to SparklStories.com and click the button in the top right hand of the website of any page of the website
1:20.9	that says start free trial. And then you can listen to our entire library as much as you like,
1:28.9	anytime you like.
1:33.2	Okay, now listen in to Natty May's favorite story,
1:37.5	the Pie Festival from the Junkyard Tales Collection.
1:38.7	Enjoy. Enjoy. The Pie Festival
1:53.0	This is a story about a cat.
1:58.8	The cat's name was Benjamin Thompson, an unusual name for a cat, but Ben was an unusual
2:06.0	cat. This is also a story about a junkyard, a most unusual place that was home to a host of
2:15.4	unusual animals.
2:23.9	Our story begins on a busted old couch near the entrance of the junkyard.
2:31.0	Ben Thompson had made this couch his sleeping quarters, now that the nights were often so warm.
2:37.3	He liked sleeping under the stars, listening to the nighttime sounds of the junkyard. He also liked waking extra early before many of the other animals, so that he could
2:45.2	have some time to himself to dream and watch the sun slowly rise.
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