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EAR SNACKS

A podcast centered around kids' voices and ideas.
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Kids celebrating Holi, India’s Festival of Colors

Rainbows & Holi! (with Charu Suri)

March 22, 2024

What do ragas, Holi, and flood mythology have to do with rainbows? (And what’s on the other side?)

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Tags cartoons, bells, percussion, Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind, disability, LAPR, physics of sound, hearts, pacemaker, murals, Electro Pounce, Ruben Rojas, Live Through Love, animal heart rates, hummingbird hearts, whale hearts, arrhythmia, Holi, Charu Suri, Ragas, Noah's Ark, Skirball Cultural Center, Festival of Colors, Rainbows, Rainbow Shoppe, songs about rainbows

Andy Ferguson a.k.a. Red Yarn

Yarn & Protest Puppets (with Andy Ferguson)

February 24, 2024

Do you ever make things in your house? Do you ever use a material called “yarn”?

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Tags cartoons, bells, percussion, Andrew Leland, blindness, The Country of the Blind, disability, parenting, LAPR, physics of sound, hearts, pacemaker, murals, Electro Pounce, Ruben Rojas, Live Through Love, animal heart rates, hummingbird hearts, whale hearts, arrhythmia

Animal heart rates

Hearts! (with Ruben Rojas)

February 11, 2024

Wait a minute — what do HEARTS have to do with LOVE?

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Tags cartoons, bells, percussion, Andrew Leland, blindness, The Country of the Blind, disability, parenting, LAPR, physics of sound, hearts, pacemaker, murals, Electro Pounce, Ruben Rojas, Live Through Love, animal heart rates, hummingbird hearts, whale hearts, arrhythmia

2024 GRAMMY nominees for Best Children’s Album (keft to right) Andrew & Polly, Pierce Freelon and Nnenna Freelon, DJ Willy Wow!, 123 Andrés and Christina, Uncle Jumbo

66th GRAMMY Nominees for Best Children's Album

January 29, 2024

Get to know some of the fabulous family music artists nominated for a 2024 GRAMMY Award for Best Children’s Album!

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Tags GRAMMYs, Best Children's Album, GRAMMY-nominated, 64th GRAMMY Awards, New kids music, All One Tribe, Activate, 123 Andres, Pierce Freelon, Black to the Future, Crayon Kids, Lucky Diaz, Falu, family music, Justin Roberts, Wendy and DB, Andrew & Polly, DJ Willy Wow, Nnenna Freelon, Uncle Jumbo, Ahhhhh!, Taste the Sky, AnceStars, We Grow Together, Preschool Songs, Hip-Hope for kids, 66th GRAMMY Awards

Graduating student ringing a Freedom Bell at Colorado Center for the Blind

Bells & Blindness with Andrew Leland

January 13, 2024

Can a person be a bell?

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Tags cartoons, bells, percussion, Andrew Leland, blindness, The Country of the Blind, disability, parenting, LAPR, physics of sound

“The Hill” from Frog and Toad All Year by Arnold Lobel

Slides!

November 17, 2023

Wheeeeee! (But, how do slides even work?)

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Tags cartoons, cartoonist, New Yoker, Tom Toro, cartoon music, Looney Toons, Calvin and Hobbes, Back to School Backpack

Calvin & Hobbes

Cartoons! (with Tom Toro)

September 8, 2023

What if YOU were a cartoon?

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Tags cartoons, cartoonist, New Yoker, Tom Toro, cartoon music, Looney Toons, Calvin and Hobbes, Back to School Backpack

“Circle Under Berry” by Carter Higgins

Shapes! (with Carter Higgins)

July 26, 2023

Is EVERYTHING a shape?

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Tags Falu, Helena Ku Rhee, Rosa's Song, The Paper Kingdom, Making friends, friendship, diverse b ooks

Summer Mixtape!

July 12, 2023

Listen to the hotness! (Including a NEW single from us!)

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Tags GRAMMYs, Best Children's Album, GRAMMY-nominated, 64th GRAMMY Awards, New kids music, All One Tribe, Activate, 123 Andres, Pierce Freelon, Black to the Future, Crayon Kids, Lucky Diaz, Falu, A Colorful World, family music, Justin Roberts, Divinity Roxx, Beyonce, Wendy and DB, hidden disability sunflower

Charlie Mgee & Australian permaculture band Formidable Veteable

Gut Friends with Charlie Mgee (Formidable Vegetable)

March 15, 2023

Meet 90 trillion of your closest friends.

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Tags GRAMMYs, Best Children's Album, GRAMMY-nominated, 64th GRAMMY Awards, New kids music, All One Tribe, Activate, 123 Andres, Pierce Freelon, Black to the Future, Crayon Kids, Lucky Diaz, Falu, A Colorful World, family music, Justin Roberts, Divinity Roxx, Beyonce, Wendy and DB, You Are Not Alone

Alphabet Rockers, 2023 GRAMMY Award Winners for Best Children’s Album

You Are Not Alone with Alphabet Rockers

February 15, 2023

Alphabet Rockers’ Kaitlin McGaw and Tommy Sheppard share about bravery, empathy and belonging in their debut picture book “You Are Not Alone”.

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Tags GRAMMYs, Best Children's Album, GRAMMY-nominated, 64th GRAMMY Awards, New kids music, All One Tribe, Activate, 123 Andres, Pierce Freelon, Black to the Future, Crayon Kids, Lucky Diaz, Falu, A Colorful World, family music, Justin Roberts, Divinity Roxx, Beyonce, Wendy and DB, You Are Not Alone

Four 2023 GRAMMY nominees for Best Children’s Album

Best Children's Album 2023: Know Your Noms!

January 26, 2023

Get to know some of the fabulous family music artists nominated for a 2023 GRAMMY Award for Best Children’s Album!

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Tags GRAMMYs, Best Children's Album, GRAMMY-nominated, 64th GRAMMY Awards, New kids music, All One Tribe, Activate, 123 Andres, Pierce Freelon, Black to the Future, Crayon Kids, Lucky Diaz, Falu, A Colorful World, family music, Justin Roberts, Divinity Roxx, Beyonce, Wendy and DB

From “Rosa’s Song” by Helena Ku Rhee, illustrated b y Pascal Campion

Making Friends by Singing with Helena Ku Rhee

January 11, 2023

Can we be friends?

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Tags Falu, Helena Ku Rhee, Rosa's Song, The Paper Kingdom, Making friends, friendship, diverse b ooks

Juneteenth Mixtape: All One Tribe

June 8, 2022

Celebrate Juneteenth with Grammy-nominated black family music from All One Tribe!

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Smaller than Small: The Discovery of Quarks with Dr. Martin Breidenbach

January 19, 2022

Investigate tinyness for World Quark Day!

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Tags science, Quarks, World Quark Day, subatomic, particle physics, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Martin Breidenbach, physicist interview

The 2022 GRAMMY nominees for Best Children’s Album

Great New GRAMMY-nominated Music for Kids!

January 12, 2022

Get to know these 5 Awesome Albums!

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Tags GRAMMYs, Best Children's Album, GRAMMY-nominated, 64th GRAMMY Awards, New kids music, All One Tribe, Activate, 123 Andres, Pierce Freelon, Black to the Future, Crayon Kids, Lucky Diaz, Falu, A Colorful World, family music

Illuminating the Unseen Ocean with Danni Washington

January 5, 2022

Illuminate your dark winter days with an awe-inspiring dive into the science of the ocean!

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Tags lights, festival of lights, PJ Library, bioluminescence, biology, marine biology, science, new year

Songs of Light + Celebrating Kwanzaa with Fyütch!

December 8, 2021

Habari Gani! What’s the news?

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Tags lights, hanukkah, festival of lights, candles, teaching kids about hanukkah, PJ Library, when is hanukkah

Fireflies, Glow-sticks & The Lights of Hanukkah

November 26, 2021

Sundown, lights up!

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Tags lights, hanukkah, festival of lights, candles, teaching kids about hanukkah, PJ Library, when is hanukkah

What do keys have to do with the Music from "Vivo" + the Art of Paul Ramirez Jonas?

November 18, 2021

Two sticks, 24,001 more keys.

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Tags keys, genetic codes, unidentified chromosomes, locks, clave, vivo songbook, juan de marcos, martina castro, paul ramierez jonas, key to the city
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