Podcasts: A free resource for listening to good children stories


With the advent of podcast, its ever-growing popularity and usage, an abundance of shows about children books is available on the internet. A podcast is an audio show, usually spread across a series of episodes, available on internet, which can be accessed on phone or computer. Podcast can be a perfect way to strengthen your love of literature. Listen to good children literature with your child. It gives an opportunity to listen to a book by a skilled narrator who can bring out emotions and humour of the book. Listening to a book can help your child learn correct pronunciations, punctuations and new words while enjoying listening to a good story. Some podcast shows not only read aloud books to you but discuss the books and talk to authors also.

To get you started, listed below are some of the most interesting and resourceful podcasts that have a good archive of children books.

1. Baalgatha: Every week Baalgatha podcasts classic stories from Panchtantra, Jataka tales and other children stories from India and around the world in Hindi and English.
More information available on http://www.gaatha.co/

2. Storynory: Storynory brings you an audio book every week. This podcast has one of the largest and best loved collections for children audio books. The stories are read by professionally trained voice actors.

3.  Barefoot books: Barefoot books have a huge collection of award winning children stories. Enjoy them at our own pace.

4. The story home: A wonderful world of stories awaits you at The Story Home, read by storyteller Alan.

5.   Sparkle stories: Another good podcast for soothing stories.

6.  Activated stories: Professional voice actors bring your family a different folktale from a new location in every episode.

7.  Read aloud revival: This is my personal favourite. It talks about importance of building a family culture around books. The podcasts invites authors and personalities from the field of education to talk about books.

8.  The Yarn: A narrative adventure. The Yarn takes listeners behind the scenes of children’s literature and lets them look at all the threads that must be weaved together to create a book.

9. Publishers weekly PW kidscast: In this podcast, Publishers Weekly’s children’s reviews editor John A. Sellers interviews children’s books’ authors and illustrators.

10. Librivox: Librivox has an amazing collection of classics read by volunteers. This collection can be accesses through the librivox podcasts or by a separate app ‘Librivox’.

Iphone has a built-in app for podcasts and for android devices, it can be downloaded from google play store. Search and subscribe the shows on the app.
For more help on podcasts and how to access them, please feel free to leave a comment.

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