Random Storytime Podcasts

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” pick. This podcast is a Literary Safari Production.

Categories: Kids & Family, Society & Culture

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Entertaining and encouraging stories from a life well lived as told by Old Hat, an old Texas cowboy. If lawyers can be disbarred and clergy can be defrocked then surely a cowboy can be deranged.

Categories: Comedy, Kids & Family

Tags: cowboy, encouraging, entertaining, humor, storytime

The Kids Stories Podcast Is The Ultimate In Bedtime Sleeping Short Stories For Kids Of All Ages! Don’t let your kids watch too much media! Our sleep stories are the perfect wind down to a busy day! If you think all sleep stories are the same, you have something coming to you! This is a story filled with adventures, that will get your kiddos all tucked in and ready to sleep tight! These short storytime fill your kids head with wondery, so much so, that they will abide by their bedtime routines to rush to their great American storytime. They will even bug you to listen to these Amazing children’s stories on car rides with wonder and a longing for discovery. A fun story world with geographic wonder that both girls and boys will relate to. Your kids will make history with all the adventures they will embark on Kids Stories Podcast!

Categories: Fiction, Kids & Family

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The 1nReady PODCAST crosses the intersection of Caribbean and Global citizenship. We call it a Yaadcast! Here, Jamaican born hosts Brandon and Kiffany pick up passengers (special guests) to share their experiences, some entertainment and encouragement – with authentic JAmerican flavor. 1 n’ Ready, we need YOU and wi move!

Categories: Comedy, Society & Culture

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Little Ted is just like your average pre-schooler – curious, energetic and full of fun. Join Little Ted as he explores his world and embarks on everyday adventures. Short stories for kids that involve day to day activities young children (and their parents) can relate to and which often include ideas for creative play.

Categories: Kids & Family

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Created and produced by parents of young children, WBUR’s Circle Round adapts carefully-selected folktales from around the world into sound- and music-rich radio plays for kids ages 3-103. Each 15 to 25-minute episode explores important issues like kindness, persistence and generosity. And each episode ends with an activity that inspires a deeper conversation between children and grown-ups.

Categories: Kids & Family

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The podcast where you get to know everything about us, but never our names.

Categories: Society & Culture

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A new podcast where today’s finest writers read the work that matters to them—from their homes, to yours. Produced and commissioned by the 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center, a home for live readings of literature for over 80 years.

Categories: Arts, Fiction

Tags: 92ndstreety, 92y, Arts, fiction, poetry, readaloud, Reading, readings, storytime

Henry and Lala bring to life your favorite MYTHS. In season one, we’ll be presenting GREEK MYTHS.

Categories: Fiction, Kids & Family

Tags: Children, Greek myths, homeschool, K-6, Kids, Myths, read aloud, Stories, stories for kids, story, storytime

This podcast by KELY Support Group (KELY) highlights stories and conversations with a variety of Hong Kong’s youths all from different backgrounds and provides a medium for young people to connect and understand each other. Each season consists of new stories by different youth discussing a new topic. There are episodes from Cantonese speakers and English speakers. Every person featured experiences our home differently, so we hope that you listen to each episode, connect with these youths, and learn about how they are adding to Hong Kong’s busy days and continuous story. KELY is a Hong Kong-based nonprofit organisation whose mission is to equip young people with the skills, knowledge, and opportunities needed to support themselves and each other. http://kely.org

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From the mind of R.L. Stine, the creator of Goosebumps, comes a new series that will give you chills, make you laugh, and entertain like only R.L. Stine can. Join Ivy, the club president, as she takes listeners into the strange, the bizarre, and the frightening world of R.L. Stine. Starring Ariel Winter (Modern Family) as Ivy, R.L. Stine’s Story Club is part of the GoKidGo universe of shows for kids. R.L. Stine’s Story Club: let the thrills and chills begin! Recommended for ages seven and up.

Categories: Fiction, Kids & Family

Tags: Books, Children, childrens books, goosebumps, Kids, R.L. Stein, Stories, story, storytelling, storytime

The Hidden Gems Podcast is ad-free and dedicated to bringing you a variety of classic tales as well as original short stories from, as yet, undiscovered writers. Join your host, C. Mack Lewis, and our professional narrator, John Bell, as we tell you the best short stories that you’ve never heard! ​

Categories: Arts, Fiction

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The Brimblebanks Brothers tell exciting stories to thrill, illuminate, rouse, and/or inspire nightmares. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll laugh at people for crying. In the style of classic radio dramas, but without all that racism.

Categories: Comedy

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If you’re looking for a podcast, but can’t find the right one, I have some good news, your search is now done. There are poems and stories and songs that are great. It’s perfect for children, ages two until eight. The poems are sweet and all filled with laughter. The stories end well. Happily ever after. So be sure to subscribe and begin to explore. And please don’t forget, there’ll always be more. | Musings and other Nonsense is a children’s podcast of whimsical stories, poems and songs. It’s perfect at bedtime, car rides or anytime laughter is needed. Please visit www.storiesbypeter.com. |

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Categories: Fiction, Kids & Family, Music

Tags: audio stories, audiobook, bedtime stories, children's podcast, childrens books, childrens stories, family friendly, fantasy, kidlit, parenting, rhymes, storytime

GamerDude has taken the stories he tells during his Twitch stream and put them in podcast form. They’re stories about gaming, growing up, family, relationships, food, music, movies; basically, stories about life.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: christmas, gamerdude, growing up, lifestyle, memories, Movies, music, nostalgia, Stories, storytime

Stories of your customers on their journey, and how they build or break relationships with companies like yours. Host Russel Lolacher shares real customer experience case studies in a 1950s radio drama narration style with modern tips and analysis. Born from The Upsell.com Blog, The CX Storytime Podcast: Tales from the Customer Journey presents true customers’ stories including the impacts of their customer experiences, followed by valuable strategies on engagement and retention to help you get ahead in building your online business or enhancing your brick and mortar store. Discover how the customer service experience is an emotional experience for your new, current and future customers and the steps you can take or the ideas you can think about to establish trust and long-term relationships by better serving your customers and your bottom line. Russel is a customer communications advocate and believes whether you are serving in store, over the counter, on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and social media, through podcasting, books and ebooks, online courses or any other point in a customer journey, communicating and connect with humanity is key.

Categories: Business

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Here to give the real tea on being black, female and queer in America, And Proud podcast host Chloe Blankenship covers real, thought provoking topics on racial, social and queer community issues. From her own perspective and insights from friends, And Proud is a space for discussion, representation and motivation.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: Black Community, Comedy, Current Events, Experience, gay, lgbtqia, Philosophy, pride, queer, Society, storytime, Talkshow

Let’s Fly! Reading Bug Adventures is a story podcast for kids from The Reading Bug. Each episode is a new adventure with original songs — just hop into the Reading Bug’s magic book bag, and we’ll be transported to whatever time or place is in the books inside! Join us for action and adventure, and bring your crayons and paper so you can color your own illustrations. Reading Bug Adventures is created, written, and produced by The Reading Bug, an independent, family-owned children’s bookstore. Learn more at www.thereadingbug.com/adventures

Categories: Kids & Family

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