"True Colors" from the Martin & Sylvia: Saturdays! collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the Martin & Sylvia: Saturdays! collection.
It's called "True Colors."
One autumn morning, Momma tells brother and sister that the oranges, reds and yellows of autumn leaves are actually their true colors — that the green actually masks those colors until the fall. This reminds Sylvia of something she has been masking — and gives her the courage to tell the truth.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. And this is the Sparkle Stories |
| 0:12.7 | podcast. I am so glad you are here as we move into autumn or fall. The story is called |
| 0:20.4 | True Colors. It's an autumn story, but it's also a story |
| 0:23.8 | about courage because that's what I've been sharing. His stories about courage this September. |
| 0:29.2 | In this story, we learned something really unique about the leaves, the leaves that change |
| 0:34.6 | color in the fall, something I didn't know until I actually read the story for the first time. |
| 0:40.0 | There's something true about them that you don't realize from looking at them. |
| 0:45.2 | And also in this story, Sylvia tells the truth. |
| 0:48.6 | She finds the courage to tell the truth about something important. |
| 0:52.3 | So in this story, you're going to both learn something |
| 0:54.6 | amazing about autumn leaves and get inspired by Sylvia. Okay, before I share this story, |
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| 1:26.2 | 1,500 original stories just as dear as this one. like. And there are over 1,500 original stories, just as dear as this one. |
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| 1:42.6 | Okay, now here's today's story, True Colors from the Martin and Sylvia Saturdays collection. |
| 1:50.0 | Enjoy. |
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