"The Shortest Day" from the At Home with Martin & Sylvia collection

Sparkle Stories Podcast

Lisabeth Sewell

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This week's free story comes from the At Home with Martin & Sylvia collection.

It's called "The Shortest Day."

Where Martin and Sylvia live, the nights are getting longer and the days are getting shorter. When Momma suggests they spend more time outside with the sun, brother and sister decide to invite the daylight into all their play. They go sledding, build fairy houses, do farm chores, and build a bonfire all with an eye on the sun — celebrating its shortest day of the year.

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0:00.0	The Oh, Hi Sparkle friends and welcome to the Sparkle stories podcast it's Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. And we are dedicating this
0:35.6	podcast to the Winter Solstice. That is the shortest day of the year and the
0:42.0	longest night of the year and it marks a turn in
0:45.9	seasons. Now the days are no longer getting shorter but from this point on they'll
0:51.9	start to get longer and we think of it as the light returning and eventually winter will turn into spring and will turn into summer again and it's a wonderful time to celebrate the change of season, to
1:06.4	celebrate the amazingness of our planet and the
1:15.0	and cycles of the natural world. And it's also a wonderful time just to get slow
1:18.0	and to celebrate whatever it is that you want to celebrate in a year,
1:23.0	accomplishments, exciting events,
1:27.0	all the ways that you've grown and changed,
1:30.0	and then to think about what seeds you want to plant in the coming year as the light returns.
1:36.9	So I've picked the story called The Shortest Day.
1:39.6	It's from the At Home with Martin and Sylvia collection because as we know Martin and
1:44.1	Sylvia and their family know how to celebrate the seasons so listen in and find out
1:51.4	what they do to celebrate the shortest day.
1:55.0	The story you're about to listen to is part of our giant library of stories.
2:01.0	We have nearly 1,500 original stories on Sparkle stories and so many, many, many holiday stories. You can enjoy all of our stories for free for a week.
2:15.0	Go to sparkle stories.com and click the button at the top that says start free trial.
2:22.0	Then you can listen to as much as you like, any time you like.
2:27.0	Okay now, on to the story, the shortest day from the At Home with Martin and Sylvia live in a tall house with lots of windows. From their second-story loft bedroom, they can see their entire backyard with the tall maple and oak trees on one side
3:06.3	and the horse fence that borders the Browns Farm on the other. All year long brother and sister spend a lot of time in their backyard.
3:18.4	In the spring they help prepare the many garden beds and build fairy houses along the swollen brook in the back.
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