Kids Listen Summer Sampler: 11 Podcasts for Curious, Imaginative, and Happy Young Listeners
Ready to find your family’s new favorite podcasts? It’s a Summer Sampler time! Because summer is a great time for new experiences and adventures, we invite you to explore a selection of different kids podcasts from Kids Listen members. Kids Listen is a non-profit organization with members who create and advocate for high-quality audio content for children.
This year’s summer sampler features small tastes of 11 shows that will pique young listeners’ curiosity, stretch their imaginations, tickle their funny bones, and help them find calm.
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Produced by Lynn Hickernell
Explore the podcasts for kids included in this collection:
Girl Tales
Listen: https://pod.link/1269253764
Girl Tales is a podcast featuring reimagined fairytales. Damsels in distress? Princesses in need of protection? You won’t find those here. The girls in their stories take control of their own destinies, turning your favorite fairytales into exciting new adventures. With energetic voice actors and professional sound design, these audio plays burst to life at the touch of a button.
Book Club for Kids
Listen: https://pod.link/1016037208
The place where young readers meet to talk about books. The show includes a celebrity reader and an interview with the author. The host is award winning public radio journalist Kitty Felde. Book Club won the California Library Association Technology Award and the DC Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Humanities.
Like You: Mindfulness for Kids
Listen: https://pod.link/1493360254
Like You is a mindfulness podcast for kids. They use breathing, affirmations, music, and imagination to explore feelings, relieve anxiety, encourage self-esteem, and grow empathy, all while having fun! Like You creates a safe, calming, and relaxing audio experience for children as they learn to find beauty and wonder in themselves and the world.
The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland
Listen: https://pod.link/1534026316
What would dogs do? This fantastical story podcast for kids, families, and dog lovers, about sweet dogs on a planet called Dogland is written by a mother and kid team that loves silly, fun, and meaningful adventures. They like to explore how to nurture and grow great self-esteem, manage big feelings, and what it means to find and support a sense of true belonging.
Unspookable
Listen: https://pod.link/Unspookable
Unspookable is a family friendly look at the histories and mysteries behind your favorite scary stories, myths and urban legends. Each week host Elise Parisian digs into the history, brain science, and power dynamics behind such topics as Bloody Mary, Charlie Charlie, and Ouija Boards to find the stories behind the scares. (Recommended for ages 8+)
Stoopkid Stories
Listen: https://pod.link/1497168868
Stoopkid Stories is a compilation of fun and exciting stories written by Melissa Victor. We follow 7 characters every episode as they face a new adventure and will have to overcome different obstacles dealing with their friends, family, school, and community. These stories are perfect for children ages 5 and up.
Peace Out
Listen: https://pod.link/1195586628
Mindfulness stories that help children calm down and learn social-emotional skills by guiding them through visualization and breathing exercises focused on kindness and fun science facts. Perfect for parents or teachers who want to teach mindfulness and self-regulation.
What If World
Listen: https://pod.link/1164278826
What if a dragon lived in my closet? What if there were a never-ending bowl of ice cream? Pirates, fairies, wizards, robots and many more friends help Mr. Eric tell stories inspired by kids’ questions. What If World’s progressive stories will keep kids laughing while fostering curiosity, imagination, and resilience.
Dorktales Storytime
Listen: https://pod.link/dorktales-storytime
Be the hero of your own story! That’s at the heart of Dorktales Storytime, an imaginative podcast for kids and their pop culture loving grownups. Enter their Once Upon a Time world where Jonathan and Mr. Reginald T. Hedgehog take you on a journey of curiosity and acceptance — through original fairy tales with social emotional themes, inspiring histories of hidden heroes, and anything-is-possible lore stories.
Fina Mendoza Mysteries
Listen: https://pod.link/1481926408
It’s “The West Wing” meets “Nancy Drew” — a podcast for little girls and political junkies. Legend says whoever sees the Demon Cat of Capitol Hill is cursed. Fina Mendoza, the 10-year old daughter of a congressman, just saw it. Can she save her family from “cat”astrophe?
Newsy Pooloozi
Listen: https://pod.link/1521632905
Newsy Pooloozi is a weekly, world news podcast for smart kids and curious adults, covering science, animals, space, tech, culture, entertainment, sports… and even politics! The family friendly podcast is presented by a British-Indian-American mother-and-daughter duo, covering the world in a fun and engaging way. Newsy Pooloozi also has kid correspondents from all over the world — Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.
Even More Podcasts for Kids!
There are so many more Kid Listen member creators who are dedicated to making the best kids podcasts for screen free entertainment and education. Discover more at kidslisten.org.
