Now Playing . . .: Using Podcasts and Kidcasts in the Library

Authors

  • Kitty Felde
  • Pamela Rogers

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.15n2.09

Abstract

Podcasts created for kids, and often by kids, are quickly growing in number, scope, and popularity. The list of recommended podcasts on Zooglobble, a kids’ music and audio review site, has grown to include almost eighty. And podcasts for kids, also called “kidcasts,” are not just for earphones and home speakers.

Podcasts for kids are taking the stage. Ear Snacks, hosted by professional “kindie” (kid-indie) musicians, recently performed at the San Francisco Public Library and at San Francisco’s Recess Urban Recreation Center. Book Club for Kids tapes live shows at book festivals all across the eastern seaboard. The Secret Diaries of Tara Tremendous, superhero adventure stories produced by Wonkybot Studios, was even turned into a Broadway musical.

Author Biography

Kitty Felde

Kitty Felde is host and executive producer of the Book Club for Kids podcast. She’s a public radio veteran, an award-winning playwright, and middle grade novelist. Book Club for Kids began as a segment on Felde’s award-winning public radio talk show. It launched as a podcast in 2015. The Literacy Network of Greater Los Angeles honored the show with its Literacy in Media award. Pamela Rogers is a children’s librarian and host and producer of Buttons & Figs, a podcast for kids about nonsense literature. Buttons & Figs began in September 2016 and is co-hosted by Sarah Torbey, also a children’s librarian. The podcast was started as a way to share great works of nonsense and to inspire kids to create nonsense of their own. Pamela is also a consultant and trainer on topics such as ALA’s Every Child Ready to Read, early literacy, family engagement, and leadership.

References

James Hamilton, Arthur Rackham, A Life with Illustration (London: Pavilion, 2010), 99-100.

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqua, Undine (London: Heinemann, 1909).

Richard Wagner (tr. Margaret Armour), The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie (London: Heinemann, 1910).

Richard Wagner (tr. Margaret Armour), Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods (London: Heinemann, 1911).

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (London: Heinemann, 1908).

Brian Froud and Alan Lee, Faeries (New York: Abrams, 1978).

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Published

2017-06-15

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2017): Summer

Section

Features

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