# ⭐ PREMIUM EPISODE PREVIEW ⭐ The Magic Necklace βœ¨πŸ“ΏπŸͺ„πŸŒˆ An episode of [Short Stories for Kids: Bedtime ~ Car Time ~ Downtime](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1557898989), 24 Aug 2026, 2:50. Audio: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s.gum.fm/s-624f621807754001d038e4b6/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74633231/neckalce_p.mp3 Written by Simon Chadwick Come and follow more adventures on our animated TV show on Youtube! πŸ“ΊπŸ€© SUBSCRIBE HERE: youtube.com/@shortstoriesforkidspodcast If you would like a special birthday shout out, order one here! πŸŽ‚ https://www.shortstoriesforkidspodcast.com/ Looking for Ad Free Episodes? Just join our 🌟PREMIUM CHANNEL 🌟 Join up to our Premium channel through your Apple player or here at Supercast: https://shortstoriesforkids.supercast.com/ And become a Super Fan of Short Stories for Kids! Here you will receive a Friday Bonus Episode every week! Plus our entire back catalogue of stories ad free! 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And what episode you heard it on and I will immediately contact Spreaker to block the ad. I take this very seriously and I really appreciate your support and co-operation. As creators, we want your child’s experience to be a pleasurable one. Running adverts is necessary to allow us to operate, but please do consider the premium subscription service as an alternative – it’s ad free. ## Transcript [0:06] Speaker 1: Penelope had lived a charmed life. At least that's how [0:10] Speaker 1: it had seemed. For some time now, everything seemed to [0:14] Speaker 1: go just right for her. If she knocked something from [0:17] Speaker 1: a table, she always caught it. If she lost something, [0:21] Speaker 1: it was always in the first place that she looked, [0:24] Speaker 1: and when she was working on something for school, it [0:27] Speaker 1: always turned out just right. Penelope didn't really think much [0:32] Speaker 1: until one day nothing seemed to go right. Firstly, she [0:37] Speaker 1: spilt paint over a classmate's work. It had been an accident, [0:41] Speaker 1: but the upset it caused was huge. Then she couldn't [0:45] Speaker 1: find her homework, resulting in a stern telling off from [0:48] Speaker 1: her teacher. Worst of all, a science project she was [0:51] Speaker 1: working on with two classmates went terribly wrong, resulting in [0:55] Speaker 1: the classroom having to be evacuated due to a room [0:58] Speaker 1: full of foul smoke. For some reason, the blame was [1:03] Speaker 1: directed at Penelope and she was sent home. The day [1:07] Speaker 1: had been very different from what she was used to. [1:10] Speaker 1: Back home, Penelope slumped on her bed on the edge [1:14] Speaker 1: of tears and wondered how everything could have gone so wrong, [1:18] Speaker 1: What was so different about today? That was when Penelope [1:22] Speaker 1: spotted her fancy necklace still hooked over the edge of [1:25] Speaker 1: her mirror. She hadn't realized she wasn't wearing it, as [1:29] Speaker 1: she very rarely took it off. It was a string [1:32] Speaker 1: of polished beads in varying bright colors, all flecked with [1:36] Speaker 1: speckles of silver and gold. She found it at a [1:39] Speaker 1: garage sale in a neighboring street a couple of years before. [1:43] Speaker 1: The owner didn't want much money for it, and so [1:46] Speaker 1: Penelope's mom had gladly bought it for her. She'd worn [1:49] Speaker 1: it every day since, except she realized for today. Rising [1:55] Speaker 1: from her bed, Penelope crossed to the mirror and picked [1:58] Speaker 1: up the necklace sparkled in. [2:00] Speaker 2: The To hear the rest of this story and our [2:04] Speaker 2: entire back catalog ad free, you can sign up to [2:07] Speaker 2: become a premium subscriber of the show. 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