This season, we’re looking at books that inspire the minds of the future presidents in your family. Those kiddos who write carefully-crafted pleas to the Tooth Fairy. Or rally their classes around calls for longer recess. The ones who inspire t

The Day You Begin

Jan 17th, 2024 19m 58s

Of all the experiences we share on our unique and individual life journeys, there’s none quite as unifying as catching big feelings on the first day of school. It's a day filled with promise: New friends! Old ones! New teachers! New ‘fits! New

Click, Clack, Moo

Jan 10th, 2024 24m 3s

Farmer Brown has a problem. Not only have his cows taken up… typing, but they’ve used their newfound skill to put their hooves down. The barn, they say, in typewritten notes tacked to its door, is cold. And unless Farmer Brown supplies them wit

We Are Water Protectors

Jan 3rd, 2024 25m 44s

This season, we jump headlong into the murky waters of American democracy, swimming amongst stories with themes that look at the power that the littlest voices can have to enact the biggest of changes.On today’s episode, We are Water Protecto

Grandaddy's Turn

Dec 28th, 2023 22m 30s

One morning in rural Alabama, Michael’s granddaddy unexpectedly dons a fancy suit. Now, Granddaddy was ordinarily a man who wore coveralls and work clothes, and it wasn’t a church day, either, so Michael knew that something really special must

Big Orange Splot

Dec 19th, 2023 24m 33s

Mr. Plumbean lives on a neat street, where all the houses are the same. That is, until a seagull drops a giant can of bright orange paint on the roof of Mr. Plumbean’s house. Will Mr. Plumbean “fix” that splot, returning his house to the ticky-

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Dec 18th, 2023 6s

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Little Voices, Big Ideas: Where The Wild Things Are

Dec 30th, 2020 21m 20s

Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are,takes readers on an extraordinary journey into the imagination of the wildest thing of all--the young and precocious Max.Banished to his bedroom for bad behavior, Max sails ac

Little Voices, Big Ideas: Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock

Dec 23rd, 2020 20m

There’s plenty of attention given to the pursuit of “happily ever after” in stories of all sorts. But how should we go about acquiring happiness? Is there a right or wrong way to do it?Anansi the spider, the thieving trickster at the heart of

Little Voices, Big Ideas: The Other Side

Dec 16th, 2020 23m

Of all the difficult subjects deserving of discussion with children, race and racism are perhaps the most required, and least easy to address. In fact, most parents believe the subject should be outright avoided until children are at least of e

Little Voices, Big Ideas: The True Story Of The Three Little Pigs

Dec 9th, 2020 20m 2s

The big bad wolf shows up in many forms in children’s stories - even disguised as grandma - with the intention of teaching children to be wary of the bad guys out there. But is the big bad wolf really all that big and bad, or has he just been g

Little Voices, Big Ideas: The Giving Tree

Dec 2nd, 2020 20m 29s

Episode 2 of “Little Voices, Big Ideas,” makes the case for discussing the big ideas found in the book that everyone loves to love--or loves to hate--Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree.Criticized for its seeming endorsement of feminine/materna

Little Voices, Big Ideas: Fanny's Dream

Nov 24th, 2020 30m 15s

In episode 1 of “Little Voices, Big Ideas,” we take on the Cinderella myth through Fanny’s Dream a retelling of that tale by Caralyn Buehner. Mother and daughter Beth Rosch and Celeste Lavender join our hosts to illustrate the big ideas that em

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