Story Sparks - Ignite your bedtime storytelling!
Over 10,000 copies sold worldwide in 2025, putting Story Sparks in the top 1% of books sold around the world.
Over 1,000 plot combinations to ignite your creative bedtime storytelling!
- Makes bedtime storytelling fun and easy
- Increases language skills & comprehension
- Strengthens focus and recall
- Unforgettable bonding with children
Story Sparks - Ignite your bedtime storytelling! By Australian Author - Mark Cunich. Illustrations by Claudia Talarico ISBN 9781922810625
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Story Sparks - Ignite your bedtime storytelling!
How It Works
Turn the pages to create your own unique combination of Character, Location and Scenario.
In the below example, you can start a story about a pirate at a playground who is lost.
The book includes prompts that can help you if you get stuck.
Characters
Interesting and entertaining characters like this laughing pirate will take you on a great adventure
Locations
Locations like this park are familiar and relatable, making the perfect place to start a story
Scenarios
Fun scenarios like getting lost, will provide interesting plot lines to start your bedtime story
Try It Out
Click and drag to swipe between a combination of Characters + Locations +Scenarios to see what fabulous story you can come up with
About the Author
When Mark Cunich’s first child was born, he became a stay-at-home dad with aspirations of telling imaginative bedtime stories. However, he quickly realized that his newfound levels of exhaustion were restricting his creativity, making it difficult to find the inspiration at the end of the day. So, he began writing Story Sparks to make bedtime storytelling easy and fun.
As a child, Mark himself struggled with reading, and bedtime stories became a battle for Mark and his parents. It is his hope now that Story Sparks will help children fall in love with stories and take away some of the pressures that children can face around that storytelling time, due to varying reading abilities. This time before bed is a such a precious moment between a caregiver and a child. Story Sparks takes it to a new level, making it collaborative and allowing both adult and child to share in each other’s creativity.
Before becoming an author, Mark worked as an accountant, a profession he found to be lacking creativity. Initially, the idea of using his imagination to create bedtime stories felt daunting. However, as he created Story Sparks, the process became effortless, and helped Mark rediscover the creativity within him. It also helped him to uncover just how creative his own child could be!
Today, bedtime stories are a treasured part of his family's routine.
