Customer Reviews

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Anonymous
Story telling book

I absolutely loove this book. It is so refreshing to see that Mark is bringing back this tradition. It is what we need right now in society.
Beautifully illustrated & colourful. I highly recommend you buy one.
We can all let our imaginations run wild. Thank you Mark.

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Rhonda T.
Lovely book for classroom learning!

This book is excellent for a teacher to help students construct an imaginative narrative. It helps with character profiling, learning about settings and story plots. So many students struggle with imagination these days as everything in their world is ‘gaming’ based.

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Nonna D
What a great stimulus!

Children who have their imaginations sparked and kindled become better readers and writers. The Story Sparks book is a fantastic resource for building confident, creative little learners while spending high quality and fun time together. Highly recommend!

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Donna Pawloski
So many stories to tell

My grandchildren are enjoying reading many different stories each time we pick up the book.

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Julie Spence
Almost perfect

I like everything about Story Sparks except the size and weight of it.
This is likely not a a problem for classroom or library use but a smaller and lighter version would be preferable for domestic use.

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.

Published by Wilkinson Publishing