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"Featured in Wirecutter/New York Times' ""The 19 Best Gifts for 10 Year Olds"" and Parents and Principal Leadership magazines, this activity book brings the best of a magazine, workbook, and journal together and is ideal for at-home fun, distance learning, or classroom use. It is a companion to The Story Seeds Podcast (The Week Junior Magazine's 2020 Podcast of the Year) where diverse and award-winning children's authors collaborate with kids ages 6-12 to create stories based on their ideas. Each chapter pair with an episode of the podcast, but can be used independently as well. Just scan a QR code to launch an adventure in listening, reading, writing, and creativity with over 80 pages of: Graphic organizers Flash fiction, poetry, and non-fiction writing prompts Makerspace projects & indoor and outdoor DIY STEAM experiments Exclusive writing tips from the 10 best-selling and diverse children's authors featured on Season One, including Chris Grabenstein, Veera Hiranandani, Tracey Baptiste, Carlos Hernandez, Aram Kim, and Jason Reynolds PLUS! Curriculum connections and learning standards! The Story Seeds Podcast(TM) matches kids 6-12 with diverse and best-selling children's authors to grow their story ideas into original stories. It has been featured on Spotify's Family-Friendly Fun playlist and Apple Podcast's Shows for Kids curations! It has also received praise from The New York Times, Book Riot (10 best Bookish Podcasts), Wired (Best Kids Podcasts for Sheltering in Place), CBC (7 Kids Podcasts that are Perfect for Family Listening), Fatherly (The Best Podcasts for Kids that Adults will Like Too), and Common Sense Media (19 Great Learning Podcasts for Classrooms) and the educational platform Listenwise, which creates curriculum to support listening comprehension. Parent, educator, and critic approved! Learn more at www.storyseedspodcast.com"

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The Story Seeds Podcast is ... making a book! It's full of prompts and projects inspired by the show-a great thing for young writers. -Travis Jonker, elementary school librarian and creator of 100 Scope Notes, a kidlit blog hosted by School Library Journal For reluctant readers or those who crave engagement, try this innovative activity book. Created by the makers of The Story Seeds podcast, it's known for diverse and award-winning children's authors making stories dreamed up by kids. With the activity book, kids scan a QR code, listen to a podcast episode, and then launch into their very own creative journey with writing tips, STEAM projects, poetry prompts, and much more. -VeryWell Family, The 19 Best Books for Teens of 2021 For just a little something, the Imagination Lab, creators of The Story Seeds podcast for kids, has .. everything from writing activities to STEAM projects. -Good Housekeeping Magazine, The 20 Best Workbooks for Kids to Keep Them Learning All Year Long We love the podcasts and the activity book is honestly the best and unlike any other I've purchased. We are using it for our homeschool curriculum with my 8 year old daughter. What's not to love? It's diverse, portable, open-ended, screen-free, creative & cool! It's packed with open ended activities perfect for homeschooling. I love that the podcast has children working with adults-my daughter feels safer to ask questions, take a chance and believe her ideas are just as if not better than an adults. The book reinforces this perfectly. -Karen Alexander, mother of three I asked my school's Parents Club to purchase these awesome activity books for my class. I feel like [these activity books] will be engaging for my students! Thank you for adding the Learning Opportunities and Curriculum Connections. -Sarah, 5th and 6th grade English Language Arts teacher, Mansfield, Ohio Imagination Lab is incredible. It's a complete package that ties podcast and print together in a way that is clean, clear, incredibly thoughtful, attractive, and engaging. -Mick Sullivan, Creator of The Past and The Curious Podcast & co-chair of Kids Listen An excellent accompaniment to the podcast. There are even math challenges and cooking recipes that are theme based ... a great resource for anyone looking to let their kids' imagination take flight while listening to an excellent podcast. -Monica Brady-Myerov, Founder and CEO, Listenwise I love that Imagination Lab features advice from professional artists and kids alike! -Daniel Nayeri, author of Everything Sad is Untrue (A True Story), winner of the 2021 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Imagination Lab is filled with fun activities, QR codes to link to the pods, and lots of learning. I wish I had this book when I was a kid. (Oh, wait, I still am...) -Chris Grabenstein, NYTimes best-selling author of the Mr. Lemoncello's Library series

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Sandhya Nankani is the creator and executive producer of The Story Seeds Podcast(TM). An award-winning producer, she is also the creator of award-winning literacy app HangArt, which was selected Best of 2016 EdTech by Common Sense Media. She is a member of the Education Committee of the Museum of Arts and Design and was a founding member of KIDMAP (Kids' Inclusive and Diverse Media Action Project), an interdisciplinary group that has developed best practices toolkits for children's media producers, in an effort to make products that are more equitable, diverse and inclusive.Her studio Literary Safari produces and publishes inclusive media children and adults inspired by the 4 C's of 21st century education-Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration. It is deeply committed to creating products that celebrate authentic voices, diversity, multiculturalism, global citizenship, and real-world learning. Alicia Zadrozny is a literacy educator, curriculum designer, and children's writer, and former editor of Writing for Teens and Current Health magazines for middle schoolers.

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