Features

Bilingual Audio Podcasts + Video Stories
Bilingual English + Spanish Stories
Bilingual Education Resources

Why Sparks Creative Stories shares stories for children in Spanish

¿Por qué compartir historias para niños en español?

Bilingual Stories for Kids + free Bilingual Education Resources

Sparks Creative Stories helps kids feel safe when things are scary, with a hurricane survival story of community and kindness in English and in Spanish

Bay News 9 – Author writes children’s audiobook based on last year’s hurricanes

Creative Loafing – St. Pete publisher offers free audio books for kids in preparation for hurricane season | Sparks Creative Stories uses storytelling to comfort kids’ storm anxieties

Fox 13 Tampa Bay – St. Pete playwright writes kid’s audiobook to help navigate hurricane stress during storm season | audiobook aims to help kids with hurricane anxiety

Daytime on WFLA Channel 8 – New audiobook helps kids navigate feelings during hurricane season | Comforting stories for kids during hurricane season

Preschool Stories + Bilingual Kindergarten-readiness
Bilingual Preschool at Home

Kindergarten-ready, Cell phone-friendly and Bilingual! Why I Can Kindergarten! videos and activities are made for cell phones in Bilingual English + Spanish

Bilingual Ready for Kindergarten English + Spanish Colors videos and activities

Bilingual Ready for Kindergarten Questions to Get Kids Thinking – and Talking

Celebrating Paige the Literacy Bus, creative teachers and hope for struggling readers with a Kindergarten story of exploring the Alphabet through play, and a hero with dyslexia

Creating a new story of empathy illustrated by Preschool Artists

Celebrating Libraries and Librarians with a Bilingual audio imagination story

Bilingual Kindergarten Colors story illustrated with local fruit and veg

Sensory-Friendly and Inclusive Stories

‍Children embracing the world with patience and focus with Sparks Creative Stories

Celebrating your family’s challenges and creativity with stories for kids of all abilities

Arts and Science Stories for Kids

Exploring Marine Science through visual arts, dance and Bilingual stories for kids

Why children need Sparks Creative Stories that blend arts and science

Arts and Science story inspired by marine science and illustrated by kids

Media Interviews

St Pete Catalyst Arts Alive podcast with Bill DeYoung – Sparks Collaborative Ensemble and The Rainbow Book, free illustrated audiobooks for kids of all abilities and celebrating rainbows

RadioStPete Storytime with Janet Keeler – Sheila Cowley + Sparks Creative Stories, free illustrated audiobooks in English, Spanish and ASL

RadioStPete Arts & Education with Margo Hammond – Sheila Cowley Sparks Creative Stories, the history of the Sparks Collaborative Ensemble and Sparks Creative Stories free illustrated audiobooks in English, Spanish and Bilingual