Remote Resources for Families and Youth: Recorded Storytimes

123 Andrés

Latin-Grammy winners 123 Andrés brings interactive music for kids and families that teaches Spanish language and Latin American culture. With nursery rhymes, songs, and stories, your children will learn while singing along! 123 Andrés performs across the US and in Latin America.

Andrés es música divertida e interactiva para niños y familias, ganadores del Latin Grammy 2016, Mejor Álbum Para Niños. 123 Andrés se presenta por todo EEUU y en Latinoamérica.

Miss Nina

Children's Sing & Move Along Songs for young children, preschool kids, and early childhood learning. Sing & Move along with Miss Nina every week to songs and rhymes perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, and children who love to move along or need a brain break!

Emily Arrow

Author Emily Arrow is an award-winning children's songwriter with 10+ years of experience working with children in music education. An official Kala Brand Music Co. artist and picture book author, Emily and her ukulele Bow foster a love for literacy and music.

Songs with Librarian Celeste

Librarian Celeste has shared several storytime songs and rhymes. Check out her videos and sing along!

Judy Pancoast

GRAMMY (R) nominated singer, songwriter, performer and recording artist. Known for her worldwide hit, "The House on Christmas Street," she will be singing live on her Facebook page every week. 

Songs with Librarian Thea

Librarian Thea has shared several New England and Boston-specific Story Time songs. Check out her videos and sing along!

Canticos

All over the world, nursery songs have been used to introduce young children to early literacy and math concepts, to build social skills through singing and dancing, and to create cross-generational bonds through the preservation of these commonly known songs. Canticos combines the power of nursery rhymes with the benefits of bilingualism to provide your child with an innovative learning experience.

Mariana Iranzi

Musician, educator, and mom. Compositora de música infantil, profesora y madre. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina currently living in New York City.

Goodnight with Dolly Parton

"Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is excited to present Dolly Parton’s new weekly read-aloud video series called “Goodnight with Dolly.” The Book Lady sits down to read books from the Imagination Library to children and families. This 10-week series will focus on comforting and reassuring children during the shelter-in-place mandates. Dolly hopes these videos will provide a welcomed distraction during a time of unrest and also inspire a love of reading and books in the hearts of the children who see them."

Story Pirates

The Story Pirates podcasts turns kids' stories into comedy and songs! See the original stories, lyrics, and behind the scenes photos and videos.

Storytime Seedlings

Storytime Seedlings is an educational program to grow young readers. Episode are all on early literacy development for children from newborn to five years old. Storytime Seedlings is presented by children's librarian for young children, parents, caregivers, daycare providers, librarians, and teachers. Our programs feature books, fingerplays, rhymes, stories and songs for a screen-free storytime experience, anytime. 

Sesame Street Podcast

Download and subscribe to the Sesame Street video podcast featuring the furry and loveable Muppets of Sesame Street. Sing songs with Elmo, Abby, Cookie Monster and Grover. Learn about friendship, patience and sharing with Bert and Ernie. Celebrate sunny days with all of your favorite Muppets with new episodes every Monday!

Circle Round

Created and produced by parents of young children, WBUR's Circle Round adapts carefully-selected folktales from around the world into sound- and music-rich radio plays for kids ages 4 to 10. Each 10- to 20-minute episode explores important issues like kindness, persistence, and generosity.

Molly of Denali

"Meet Molly Mabray, an Alaska Native girl growing up with her parents, family and friends. Over eight episodes, Molly and her friend Tooey discover the identity of a mystery creature that has stolen Molly's birthday cake. Join Molly and the gang and discover what life is like for a typical kid on big adventures in Alaska! The Molly of Denali podcast is made by the folks behind some of your all-time favorite PBS television shows: Arthur, Curious George, Pinkalicious and Peterrific and more!"

Book Club for Kids

"Book Club for Kids is a free, 20-minute podcast devoted to middle grade books and readers. Each show features a trio of students discussing a favorite book, an interview with the author, and a celebrity reading. Kitty Felde is the host."

Storynory

"Storynory has been giving free audio stories to the world since November 2005. We are a podcast and a website with audio streaming. Some months we serve around a million downloads of our mp3 files (stored on Libsyn). All our content is free. We aim for our audio stories to showcase imagination, good writing, and great narrations. We are also starting to produce more factual content including history and interviews. The aim of our factual programming to stimulate a curiosity about the world, and the ability to think critically."

Woke Kindergarten

Woke Kindergarten is a thoughtful and engaging YouTube channel with an ever-expanding list of Woke Read Alouds of children's books celebrating diversity and explaining personal and cultural topics that new parents may have difficulty navigating. If you're looking for a talented storyteller and educational, well-designed Read Alouds for your little ones, check this channel out!

Flannel Board Fun

Flannel Board Fun sets are screen-free, play-based, open-ended play and learning. At Flannel Board Fun on YouTube, you'll find fun and engaging video demonstrations of all sorts of flannel board sets.

Brightly Storytime

Brightly Storyime brings you full-length picturebooks read out loud by our storyteller, Ms. Linda. Drop by for a new video every week.

Story Time From Space

Story Time from Space is a project of the Global Space Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit education foundation. We send children’s books to the International Space Station. While in space, astronauts are videotaping themselves reading these books to the children of Earth. These videos are being edited and placed on this Story Time From Space website — look under the heading ” Story Time Videos.”

Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems

Mo Willems invites YOU into his studio every day for his LUNCH DOODLE. Learners worldwide can draw, doodle and explore new ways of writing by visiting Mo’s studio virtually once a day for the next few weeks. Grab some paper and pencils, pens, or crayons and join Mo to explore ways of writing and making together. If you post your art to social media, be sure to hashtag it with #MoLunchDoodles!