The Story Seeds Podcast

Our Webby Award-nominated show matches kids ages 6-12 and their story ideas with diverse, beloved children's authors. Each episode chronicles the magic that grows through author-child collaboration and features an immersive story time read aloud by the author. Bonus episodes feature author interviews with our host Betsy Bird! As a Common Sense Media Seal Selection, our show is recognized as a great choice for kids and families for its engaging stories, valuable content, and diverse voices, characters, and messages and has received an A+ for educational value. Our show has also been featured in Wired, Time for Kids, Parents, The New York Times, and CBC and wasThe Week Junior magazine's 2020 Podcast of the Year. Our theme song and music is composed and performed by Andrew VanWyngarden, the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter/musician and co-founder of MGMT. Our companion activity book "Imagination Lab: Experiments in Creativity" is a New York Times/Wirecutter "Best Gift for 10 Year Olds

The Story Seeds Podcast is a kids podcast hosted by Literary Safari, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Story Seeds x Big Emotions

  Oct 23, 202523 minS0

  <p>Hello Story Seeds Podcast listeners. It’s been a while!<br /><br />We are excited to share this special episode - a collaboration we have done with Big Emotions: Kids Listen Mashups about Feelings. This episode features our story “The World’s Biggest Detective” by author Chris Grabenstein and creative rockstar, Jasper.<br /><br />Big Emotions: Kids Listen Mashups is a 7-part audio adventure where creators from the Kids Listen community come together to explore feelings in all their shapes and sizes. Each episode pairs two related emotions with original clips and reflections to help kids (and grownups!) understand, name, an...

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  Whoa, a Webby Award Nomination for our Podcast!

  Apr 13, 20223 minS0

  <p>Since 1996, The Webby Awards have honored the best of the Internet, so it is kind of a big deal that our small and independently produced podcast is nominated for one this year! </p><p>The episode we are nominated for is Episode 11: "A Nose that Knows" which brought together nine-year old leukemia survivor Jocelyn and Katherine Applegate, the Newbery Award-winning author of The One and Only Ivan, to grow  a real-life inspired story about a super dog named Sally who helps a girl with cancer feel better. This episode is not only about the power of imagination, but also ab...

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  Bonus Q&A: Betsy Bird Interviews Katherine Applegate

  Nov 3, 202122 minS0

  <p>Listen along as host Betsy Bird and Newbery Award-winning Katherine Applegate have a fun and heartwarming conversation about what it was like working with 9 year old Jocelyn in a special presentation of The Story Seeds Podcast which raises awareness of childhood cancer. </p><p>In the interview, Betsy and Katherine:</p>Talk about what it was like working with Jocelyn and learning about her cancer journey  [04:19]Discuss how Jane Goodall and Greta Thunberg inspired Katherine’s new eco-fable Willodeen   [12:37]Get witty and silly in a fun rapid fire q&a! [17:01]<p>This episode is also available on YouTube. Subscribe here. ...

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  A Nose that Knows with Katherine Applegate

  Oct 27, 202142 minS0

  <p>This special Story Seeds collaboration brings together nine-year old Jocelyn and Newbery Award-winning Katherine Applegate, author of The One and Only Ivan and Willodeen.</p><p>Katherine helps Jocelyn grow this story idea:</p><p>My story seed is about a super service dog (based off of my own dog Sally) who helps kids with cancer feel better. </p><p>Join our host Betsy Bird as she guides you through this collaboration full of hope and resilience. Featured segments include:</p>Katherine and Jocelyn's meeting over video chat where they get to know each other, meet each other's dogs, a...

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  Kids on Air with Friends & Family: Podcasting Camp Showcase

  Sep 16, 202138 minS0

  <p>Priyanka and Riya are best friends. Morgan and Mercedes are daughter and mother. They are just four of the voices you will hear in this montage of eight short interviews created by kids ages 8-15 during the inaugural Story Seeds On Air Summer 2021 Podcasting Camp where aspiring podcasters learned from expert guests and each other the art and technical skills they need to amplify their voices and broadcast their ideas into community conversations big and small.  </p><p>In these interviews, campers from around the United States ask intimate questions of people they know very well, and in the pr...

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