New(ish) Kids Listen Member Shows to Check Out Before Rolling into Summer 2021
Get to know the shows that have most recently joined our ranks and enjoy these new voices!
As our organization continues to grow and advocate for high-quality content for kids and their families, we are thrilled to be adding new member shows that exemplify great education and entertainment.
Here’s a quick introduction to some of our newer Kids Listen member shows that you should get to know:
Hey Black Child: The Podcast
The Ausmer Family, Lionell, Nicole, Avery, & Jackson talk Black Excellence. Discussing the accomplishments of some of the lesser-known African American Heroes from the past and present, outside the classroom.
Like You
Like You is a mindfulness podcast for kids. We use breathing, affirmations, music, and imagination to explore feelings, relieve anxiety, encourage self-esteem, and grow empathy, all while having fun! Our podcast creates a safe, calming, and relaxing audio experience for children as they learn to find beauty and wonder in themselves and the world. Subscribe to get a new episode every Tuesday. We created the podcast with kids in mind, but we welcome listeners of any age group, including parents, grandparents, or grown-ups who just want to get more in touch with themselves and their inner-child.
Mary Farfisa’s Outer Space Radio Theater
We’re thrilled to have this great storytelling kidcast join our membership! Mary Farfisa is an eight-year-old spacegirl who travels the Galaxies on her space horse, Briscoe. Mary goes from planet to planet, searching for “songs and sounds and music and noise” to share with the rest of the Universe. Mary catches the songs and sounds and music and noise in her “audio lasso.” Then she brings them to the Listener’s Library — an intergalactic collection of sounds, curated by music-loving super-beings called the Listeners. Mary’s musical assignments have taken her many places: to a planet of living bells… into the past to collect the sounds of vanished interplanetary dinosaurs … and to a space rodeo on an asteroid, where music students rope, ride, and catch the musical instruments they dream of playing in an orchestra. Mary and Briscoe have searched for a legendary musical instrument called the Padiddywhissle … and investigated a living lullaby that puts people to sleep wherever it wanders. Mary’s adventures are exciting, funny, and fun. But each episode also teaches something about a certain style of music or deals with some aspect of learning music that kids can relate to.
Stories for Wonderful Children
A father of three daughters, Dan Wendelin has been telling his three children a new bedtime story every night for more than fifteen years. For many of those years, he recorded the stories on a dictaphone so that his children could listen to their favorites again. Over time, nieces and nephews began listening to the recordings as well. He reports that family members had encouraged him to do something to make the recordings more widely available, but he had never found the time to do so. Then, the pandemic struck. Like so many, Wendelin found that he now had time to dedicate to listening to those old recordings and editing them to create a podcast. The first episode of “Stories for Wonderful Children” went live in August of 2020, and new stories are released every Wednesday and Sunday. These spontaneous stories were made up on the spot, frequently responding to his children’s questions, requests, and wisecracks. Come take a bedside seat and listen in on these Stories for Wonderful Children, available on the Kids Listen app and most other podcast providers.
The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland
The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is a serial fiction podcast for kids and their families written by a mother (Full disclosure- this is the show by this article’s author.) and son team that follows the fantastical adventures of sweet dogs on a planet called Dogland. Come visit the Dogland floating moons, the city of Licktopolis, and the mysterious island of Meowie; and stay for the jokes, mindfulness-based problem-solving techniques, and delicious Dogland bananas that open when you boop them with your nose.
A parent-child podcast about all the stuff they don’t quite ever get to at school. Topics range from making scrambled eggs to achieving savoir-faire, assessing a personal crisis to how to be twice as good at anything. We also talk through a poem together and answer a vexing question. Hosted by journalist Jeremy N. Smith and fourth-grader Rasa Smith.
Professor Theo’s Mystery Lab
The town of Splendid, West Virginia has a higher than average number of kid superheroes, giant bugs, time-traveling teens, and much more bizarre activity. Professor Theo’s Mystery Lab on the campus of Splendid University is somehow at the heart of it all. Though he doesn’t like to divulge all his secrets, the Professor does enjoy sharing his hometown bedtime stories, sure to delight the young, imaginative one in your life. Written by Jonathan Joy, based on his newspaper column of stories for kids, this is a 10–15 minute podcast, updated weekly, rich in fun, playful tales.
Ask Dr. Universe
Join Dr. Universe and her friends at Washington State University as they investigate science questions from kids around the world. Know a kid with a curious science question? Help them submit it at askDrUniverse.wsu.edu for a chance to be featured on a future episode.
Journey with Story — A Storytelling Podcast for Kids
Journey with Story is a storytelling podcast for kids ages 3–10. These audio stories are told with a Celtic flavor and calming voice of Scottish author, Kathleen Pelley. She shares fairy tale stories, bedtime stories, classic stories, and her own original children’s audio stories.
Catch all the new episodes, and find the best fit for your family with this playlist in the Kids Listen App featuring new episodes from all of our member shows.
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