¡Celebre el mes de la Herencia Hispana con podcasts para niños y familias!
National Hispanic Heritage Month (US) runs through October 15.
This national US holiday was created to recognize the contributions made by the Hispanic and Latinx/Latine communities to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. It’s a great time to learn about the richness of the Hispanic and Latinx/Latine cultures and to talk about it with your family. Here are some fantastic resources from our member shows.
Hispanic Heritage Month seeks to encompass many different communities, making choosing how to respectfully honor and support this moment potentially complex yet important, and that is why we are grateful to The Ten News for doing a breakdown of the correct usage of “Hispanic” and “Latino, Latinx, and Latine” between their host Bethany and their correspondent Nathalie. We think there couldn’t be a more perfect way to discuss this holiday with your families.
Dorktales Storytime Podcast has created a great episode about Pura Belpré, the legendary Afro-Puerto Rican educator who served as the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City.
¡Una historia de magia narrativa y marionetas hechas a mano desde el Bronx hasta el Lower East Side! Pura Belpré fue la primera bibliotecaria puertorriqueña contratada por la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York. Fue una defensora de las comunidades de habla hispana y fue responsable de introducir horas de cuentos bilingües, escribir cuentos infantiles en español y publicar el primer libro de cuentos populares puertorriqueños traducido en los EE. UU. La Sra. Belpré fue una visionaria cuyos programas literarios mantuvieron conectadas a las nuevas generaciones con su cultura hispana y mostró a todos los niños que sus historias importan!
Cráneo, is a Spanish-language podcast for kids and families who are curious about science. The show gives a platform to kids who can ask questions that are answered by experts, and it is fantastic listening for kids and their grown-ups.
Aprendiendo sobre lo fascinante de las abejas, el corazón, volcanes, dinosaurios, la luna y más!
Cada semana, disfruta de un episodio destacando preguntas de niños como los tuyos, grabado con un experto del campo de ciencia. ¡Descubre junto a tus pequeños un emocionante mundo de conocimiento científico!
Lingokids: Stories for Kids has a wonderful episode called “Floating, Music and Tortillas” to help kids find out what it takes to become an astronaut like the space-traveling superstar Ellen Ochoa.
And if you enjoy this, then you are going to love meeting Katya Echazarreta, the first Mexican-born 🇲🇽 woman ever to go to space. Katya was selected from a pool of 7,000 applicants to join Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin trip to space.
The popular science podcast Tumble launched their show for Spanish-speaking listeners, Tumble En Español. The Tumble team created this wonderful resource to promote inclusivity, representation, and access for Hispanic and Latinx/Latine families. Episodes are accompanied by downloadable resources like transcripts and phrasebooks on their website.
Consider checking out their episodes that feature Latine scientists speaking their native language like El Gran Conteo de Focas.
Girl Tales has two great episodes centering on Latinx characters and culture:
Timestorm is an award-winning adventurous story series about The Ventura Twins — who are yanked into another dimension where they meet a distant cousin who gives them an extraordinary mission: travel through time to preserve their culture’s true history. Alexa and Beni visit three continents across the span of five centuries, meeting people who have left their mark on Puerto Rican heritage. In the twenty-first century, the twins navigate school, friendship, and family while keeping their time-traveling quests a secret. Do yourself a favor and start at the beginning!
The Fina Mendoza Mysteries is a podcast as well as a growing series of exciting books about a 10-year-old Mexican-American girl and her family who move from LA to DC with her congressman father. Fina and her canine partner Senator Something solve mysteries on Capitol Hill in this lively and engaging audio drama that’s a little bit “The West Wing” with a dash of “Nancy Drew!”
It’s best to start at the beginning of this audio drama, but the episodes they created in response to the events at the US Capitol in January 2021 are incredible and include thorough and well-researched free curriculum guides from the show’s creator, Kitty Felde.
Eat Your Spanish produced a five-episode “Spanish Summer Song Series” where they made a downloadable playlist in Spotify or Apple Music of ten of their favorite Spanish songs and then discussed five of them (one per episode). Their show is sprinkled with Spanish culture in every episode, so hit subscribe or follow and enjoy new episodes every two weeks!
Want all of the episodes in a playlist together? Check out this playlist in the Smalltalk FM app:
Finally, if you are an educator/practitioner, check out these additional resources from many of our nation’s organizations:
