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Let’s fly! ✨ The Reading Bug Podcast is a collection of original audio stories for kids, featuring immersive adventures, cozy bedtime stories, bite-sized story snacks, and curious science questions. Brought to life with original music and vivid storytelling, every episode is designed to help kids fall in love with stories, music, and learning. Perfect for car rides, quiet time, and bedtime! 🚗 📚 What listeners can explore: Reading Bug Adventures: Cinematic, two-part story journeys filled with music and listener participation. Lauren’s Little Bedtime Stories: Calming tales and gentle songs perfect for winding down. Story Snacks with The Book Worm: Short, immersive stories designed for quick listening and big imaginations. Fact Fly’s One Big Question: Fun, kid-friendly science discoveries answering curious “why?” questions. Every episode is proudly created, written, and produced by The Reading Bug, an award-winning, family-owned, independent children’s bookstore.
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- Aug 17, 202649 min
Adventure Encore: A Pirate Adventure
A Reading Bug Adventure with Original Songs Ahoy, Reader! Hop into the Reading Bug's magic book bag and set sail with Lauren and the Reading Bug to meet some of the nastiest, rowdiest, smelliest, song-and-dance-iest pirates to ever sail the seven seas! But there's trouble on the high seas — a young girl has been captured by the fearsome Captain Blackbeard and his motley crew, and she needs our help. To get everyone to safety, we'll need to be brave, cunning, and ready for action. Can we outsmart Blackbeard before it's too late? Explore the Magic! Check out the books featured in this adventure at: www.thereadingbug.com/adventures/pirate
- Aug 13, 202633 min
Fact Fly: Why Do We Dream?
The Fact Fly's One Big Question Why does your brain run its most powerful, most emotional, most gloriously illogical show every single night — while your body lies completely still? Join Lauren and the Fact Fly (the proud keeper of forty-seven dream field reports, convinced he's been visiting an alternate dimension) as they investigate the mysterious science of dreams. From a real university sleep lab where scientists watch brainwaves spike the moment a dream begins, to a microscopic zoom inside the sleeping brain, this episode reveals why dreams feel so real, why their logic makes perfect sense until you wake up, and why scientists are still genuinely debating what dreams are even for. You'll discover why the emotion center of your brain blazes at full power during REM sleep while the logic center goes nearly dark, how the hippocampus remixes your memories into wild new stories with no one to say "wait, this doesn't make sense," and why a chemical called norepinephrine switching off is the reason your dreams fade within five minutes of waking. Then the Fact Fly explores the three competing theories scientists have been arguing about for decades — the Rehearsal Room, the Memory Remix, and the Static Channel — and finds out that the real answer might be all three at once. Plus: why that falling-and-jolting sensation as you drift off is an ancient tree-sleeping safety reflex, what dream priming can do for nightmares, and why the platypus — of all creatures — has the most dramatic dream life of any animal on Earth. Perfect for curious dreamers, anyone who's ever woken up desperately trying to hold onto a fading story, and anyone who needs to know what an octopus is doing when it flickers through colors in the deep ocean — while fast asleep.
- Aug 11, 202631 min
Adventure Encore: A Pirate Adventure, Part 2
A Reading Bug Adventure with Original Songs Part 2 of 2. Ahoy, Reader! Hop into the Reading Bug's magic book bag and set sail with Lauren and the Reading Bug to meet some of the nastiest, rowdiest, smelliest, song-and-dance-iest pirates to ever sail the seven seas! But there's trouble on the high seas — a young girl has been captured by the fearsome Captain Blackbeard and his motley crew, and she needs our help. To get everyone to safety, we'll need to be brave, cunning, and ready for action. Can we outsmart Blackbeard before it's too late? Explore the Magic! Check out the books featured in this adventure at: www.thereadingbug.com/adventures/pirate
- Aug 4, 202621 min
Bedtime Stories: Remi's Most Mysterious Delivery
Lauren's Little Bedtime Stories Remi runs the finest — and only — delivery service in the village of Bramblewood. She has a leather satchel, a very organized notebook, and a perfect record. By late afternoon on a Thursday in October, she has one package left: a small brown parcel addressed to old Mrs. Thistle-Finch at the top of Wren Hill. The only problem is that somewhere between the post office and the bottom of the hill, the package has started making a sound. A faint, steady, impossible-to-explain ticking. A beaver named Mr. Holt has a theory. A crow named Vex has several, each more alarming than the last, and he follows Remi up the hill uninvited to share all of them. Nobody is right. When Mrs. Thistle-Finch finally opens the package in her warm stone cottage at the top of the hill, the ticking stops — and something much better takes its place. Every Lauren's Little Bedtime Story includes:Calming Relaxation: Gentle breathing exercises to help your body relax.Original Bedtime Lullaby: Wind-down time as Lauren sings you to sleep.A Full Original Bedtime Story: A whimsical story read aloud by Lauren.
- Aug 3, 202632 min
Adventure Encore: A Pirate Adventure, Part 1
A Reading Bug Adventure with Original Songs Part 1 of 2. Ahoy, Reader! Hop into the Reading Bug's magic book bag and set sail with Lauren and the Reading Bug to meet some of the nastiest, rowdiest, smelliest, song-and-dance-iest pirates to ever sail the seven seas! But there's trouble on the high seas — a young girl has been captured by the fearsome Captain Blackbeard and his motley crew, and she needs our help. To get everyone to safety, we'll need to be brave, cunning, and ready for action. Can we outsmart Blackbeard before it's too late? Explore the Magic! Check out the books featured in this adventure at: www.thereadingbug.com/adventures/pirate
- Jul 23, 202626 min
Story Snack: One Small Worm, One Giant Universe
Book Worm's Story Snacks | One Small Worm, One Giant Universe What's it really like to float two hundred and fifty miles above the Earth? Join Book Worm on this out-of-this-world Story Snack and step aboard the International Space Station — the most extraordinary thing human beings have ever built — where everything floats, sixteen sunrises happen every single day, and six astronauts are living and working right now, as you listen, above your head. Meet Vera, an astronomer who has spent fifty years looking up at the ISS through her telescope — and has never once been inside it. Discover why orbiting Earth is really just falling sideways very fast, learn what the thin blue line hugging our planet actually is, and suit up for a spacewalk where the only thing between you and the silence of space is a helmet, a backpack full of oxygen, and a tether you really don't want to let go of. Together, you'll discover that seeing our whole planet at once — small, bright, and fragile in all that black — changes the way you look at everything.
- Jul 21, 202621 min
Bedtime Stories: Savannah Sprinkles is NOT Tired
Lauren's Little Bedtime Stories Savannah Sprinkles is a light brown puppy with four white paws and a very important list of things to do tonight — and going to sleep is not on it. There's a suspicious smell in the backyard that needs investigating, a food bowl whose status cannot be assumed, a three-week-old mystery behind the couch, and a refrigerator making a sound that frankly nobody has explained yet. The old golden dog Rosie is already asleep in her armchair on Chestnut Street and is of almost no help whatsoever. Savannah works her way through the list with great dedication — and discovers, one by one, that the backyard smell is gone, behind the couch is just a dust bunny, and the refrigerator is simply keeping things cold. Eventually, on her way to investigate the hallway, she stops just for a moment to smell her favorite blanket. Just to check it's still there. The bed turns out to be extremely difficult to leave. Every Lauren's Little Bedtime Story includes:Calming Relaxation: Gentle breathing exercises to help your body relax.Original Bedtime Lullaby: Wind-down time as Lauren sings you to sleep.A Full Original Bedtime Story: A whimsical story read aloud by Lauren.
- Jul 13, 20261h 26m
Adventure Encore: A Unicorn Adventure
A Reading Bug Adventure with Original Songs When the other garden bugs tease the Reading Bug for being different, she does what she always does — reads more books! And this time, they inspire the most fantastical adventure yet. Join Lauren, the Reading Bug and the Spelling Bee on a journey over the rainbow to the Land of the Unicorns! Only, things may not be all rainbows and unicorns. On the other side of the rainbow is a grey kingdom ruled by a cold and powerful queen who hates everything unique. With the help of Yeti, a shy young unicorn in hiding, we must find the courage to stand up to the queen, rescue our friend, and remind every unicorn in the land that what makes them different makes them magical. Explore the Magic! Check out the books featured in this adventure at: www.thereadingbug.com/adventures/unicorn
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About The Reading Bug Podcast - Original Adventures, Bedtime Stories and Music for Kids
Let’s fly! ✨ The Reading Bug Podcast is a collection of original audio stories for kids, featuring immersive adventures, cozy bedtime stories, bite-sized story snacks, and curious science questions. Brought to life with original music and vivid storytelling, every episode is designed to help kids fall in love with stories, music, and learning. Perfect for car rides, quiet time, and bedtime! 🚗 📚 What listeners can explore: Reading Bug Adventures: Cinematic, two-part story journeys filled with music and listener participation. Lauren’s Little Bedtime Stories: Calming tales and gentle songs perfect for winding down. Story Snacks with The Book Worm: Short, immersive stories designed for quick listening and big imaginations. Fact Fly’s One Big Question: Fun, kid-friendly science discoveries answering curious “why?” questions. Every episode is proudly created, written, and produced by The Reading Bug, an award-winning, family-owned, independent children’s bookstore.
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