The Story Seeds Podcast
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The Story Seeds Podcast
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 interview...
Recent Episodes
29 episodes
Whoa, a Webby Award Nomination for our Podcast!
Since 1996, The Webby Awards have honored the best of the Internet, so it is kind of a big deal that our small and independently produced podcast is n...
Bonus Q&A: Betsy Bird Interviews Katherine Applegate
Listen along as host Betsy Bird and Newbery Award-winning Katherine Applegate have a fun and heartwarming conversation about what it was like working...
A Nose that Knows with Katherine Applegate
This special Story Seeds collaboration brings together nine-year old Jocelyn and Newbery Award-winning Katherine Applegate, author of The One and Only...
Kids on Air with Friends & Family: Podcasting Camp Showcase
Priyanka and Riya are best friends. Morgan and Mercedes are daughter and mother. They are just four of the voices you will hear in this montage of eig...
Encore Presentation: A Worm's Worth with Jason Reynolds
This specific episode which we released in June 2020 is featured on CBC Podcast Playlist this week in an episode titled "Feel good stories for when yo...
Special Introduction of Imagination Lab: Experiments in Creativity
Who says podcasts are just for listening? Our activity book is ideal for at home fun, distance learning, or the classroom, and brings together the bes...
Bonus Q&A: Betsy Bird Interviews Jason Reynolds
Listen along as The Story Seeds Podcast host Betsy Bird chats with the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Jason Reynolds (author of St...
A Worm's Worth with Jason Reynolds
This week’s Story Seeds collaboration brings together 12 year old Irthan and the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Jason Reynolds (po...
Bonus Q&A: Betsy Bird Interviews Bil Lepp
Listen along as The Story Seeds Podcast host Betsy Bird chats with Bil Lepp (five-time champion of the West Virginia Liars’ Competition and author of...
Look Before You Eat! with Bil Lepp
This week’s Story Seeds collaboration brings together 11 year old Keshav and Bil Lepp (professional storyteller, five-time champion of the West Virgin...
Bonus Q&A: Betsy Bird Interviews Susan Muaddi Darraj
Listen along as The Story Seeds Podcast host Betsy Bird chats with Susan Muaddi Darraj (author of the debut middle grade series Farah Rocks and a 2014...
A Girl Who Looks Like Me with Susan Muaddi Darraj
This week’s Story Seeds collaboration brings together 12 year old Sulaf and Susan Muaddi Darraj (author of the new middle grade series Farah Rocks an...
Bonus Q&A: Betsy Bird Interviews Tracey Baptiste
Listen along as The Story Seeds Podcast host Betsy Bird chats with Tracey Baptiste (New York Times bestselling author of MINECRAFT: THE CRASH, as well...
Barking up the Right Tree with Tracey Baptiste
This week’s quarantine edition of Story Seeds brings together two super imaginative Jersey girls: Tracey Baptiste (New York Times bestselling author o...
It's Our Theme Song. Come Sing Along!
The Story Seeds Podcast theme song was written, composed, and performed by Andrew VanWyngarden. Nowadays, he is a real-life, Grammy-nominated musician...
Bonus Q&A: Betsy Bird Interviews Carlos Hernandez
Listen along as The Story Seeds Podcast host Betsy Bird chats with Carlos Hernandez, author of Rick Riordan Presents' Sal and Gabi series and winner o...
The Paintbrush of Doom with Carlos Hernandez
This week’s Story Seeds collaboration matches Carlos Hernandez (winner of the 2020 Pura Belpré Author Award and author of the Sal and Gabi series from...
Bonus Q&A: Betsy Bird Interviews Rajani LaRocca
Listen along as The Story Seeds Podcast host Betsy Bird chats with Rajani LaRocca (author of "Midsummer’s Mayhem," a Kirkus Best Book of 2019 and long...
The Hungry Mirror with Rajani LaRocca
This week’s Story Seeds collaboration brings together 12 year old creative rockstar Liyana and Rajani LaRocca, author of the 2019 middle-grade hit Mid...
Bonus Q&A: Betsy Bird Interviews to Aram Kim
Listen along as The Story Seeds Podcast host Betsy Bird chats with Aram Kim (author and illustrator of Bank Street’s Best Children’s Book of 2018 NO...
Heroes and Queens with Aram Kim
This week’s Story Seeds collaboration brings together 7 year old creative rockstar Cici and Aram Kim, Elmhurst Queens-based Korean-American author and...
Bonus Q&A: Betsy Bird Interviews Chris Grabenstein
Listen along as The Story Seeds Podcast host Betsy Bird chats with Chris Grabenstein (author of The New York Times best-selling Mr. Lemoncello's Libra...
The View From The Top with Chris Grabenstein
This week’s Story Seeds collaboration follows the one and only Chris Grabenstein, author of the NYTimes best-selling Mr. Lemoncello's Library series,...
Bonus Q&A: Betsy Bird Interviews Veera Hiranandani
Listen along as The Story Seeds Podcast host Betsy Bird chats with Veera Hiranandani (author of the Newbery Honor-winning book THE NIGHT DIARY). They...
From Home School to Public School with Veera Hiranandani
This week’s Story Seeds collaboration follows Veera Hiranandani, author of the Newbery Honor winning novel The Night Diary, and 10 year old creative r...
Bonus Q&A: Betsy Bird Interviews Dan Gutman
Listen along as The Story Seeds Podcast host Betsy Bird chats with Dan Gutman (best-selling author of the My Weird School series). They go behind the...
Coronavirus PSA: How to Fight the New Bad Guy in Town by Jason Reynolds
There's a new bad guy in town and his name is COVID-19, AKA, the novel Coronavirus. Although Coronavirus has already made many, many people around th...
The Magic Seed with Dan Gutman
The Story Seeds Podcast kicks off Season One with a collaboration between our 11 year old creative rockstar Hannah and Dan Gutman, best-selling autho...
Introducing The Story Seeds Podcast!
Kids are creative rockstars! Introducing The Story Seeds™ Podcast, where we match kids and their story ideas with beloved authors who grow their story...