"The Spring Festival" from the Junkyard Tales collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the Junkyard Tales Collection. It's called "The Spring Festival."
It is time for the Junkyard Spring Festival, and all the animals are doing their part. Ben is given the responsibility of hiding the egg treats for the mice. But while he is hiding them, he finds a mysteriously-decorated egg with a most curious image on it. What could it mean? Who hid it? When the other animals find similar eggs, the true egg hunt begins.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. |
| 0:13.0 | This week's story is called the Spring Festival from Junker Tales. Do you know why I'm playing |
| 0:18.7 | the story? Because it's almost time for Easter. If you celebrate Christian |
| 0:23.7 | traditions, then you will know that Easter is right around the corner. And this is an Easter-inspired |
| 0:28.8 | story that takes place in the junkyard. There's the hiding of egg treats and there's the mystery |
| 0:36.0 | of who might be hiding them and a mysteriously decorated |
| 0:40.5 | egg on top of it. So listen in for a little Easter or really spring festival celebration. |
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| 1:36.0 | in the top right that says start free trial. Okay, now on to the story, the Spring Festival |
| 1:42.8 | from the Junkyard Tales collection. Enjoy. |
| 2:03.6 | This is a story about a cat. |
| 2:07.6 | The cat's name was Benjamin Thompson, an unusual name for a cat, but Ben was an unusual cat. |
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