The Story Seeds Podcast

The Story Seeds Podcast

Literary Safari
Fortnightly 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 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.
30 episodes  •  0 archived  •  
Oct 23, 2025
Oct 23, 2025
22 mins
Bonus·
Apr 14, 2022
Apr 14, 2022
2 mins
Bonus·
Nov 4, 2021
Nov 4, 2021
21 mins
E11·
Oct 28, 2021
Oct 28, 2021
41 mins
Bonus·
Sep 16, 2021
Sep 16, 2021
38 mins
Bonus·
Jun 4, 2021
Jun 4, 2021
38 mins
Bonus·
Jul 16, 2020
Jul 16, 2020
24 mins

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