The Story Seeds Podcast [Literary Safari]
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 it 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 was The 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.
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The Story Seeds Podcast is created by Literary Safari. We are an award-wining children's media studio. creating inclusive, award-winning, and critically acclaimed digital and print media for children, families, and educators. We also have a children's book imprint.
Our host Betsy Bird is a powerhouse in the world of kidlit. She is a librarian, runs the Fuse 8 blog at School Library Journal, book reviewer for Kirkus Reviews, and was recently elected to the American Library Association’s Children's Literature Legacy Committee. Betsy is author of the middle grade novel LONG ROAD TO THE CIRCUS, author of the picture books GIANT DANCE PARTY and THE GREAT SANTA STAKEOUT, and editor of the anthology FUNNY GIRL: FUNNIEST STORIES EVER. She and her sister also review and talk all things books at their podcast Fuse 8 'n Kate.
