Alexa, read me a story: 音声部の content for kids on the rise
NEW YORK (AP) - Melanie Musson in ベオグラード, Montana, does a lot of 運動ing with her four girls. Juggling a 幅の広い age 範囲, 1 to 9, she's forever searching for ways to keep them all entertained without relying 完全に on ビデオ.
While she still adores paper and tablet 調書をとる／予約するs for her kids, Musson said: "I think when they hear without seeing, they have to （不足などを）補う visuals in their 長，率いるs. That's so good. They have to be engaged and get more out of it."
There are plenty of 質 audiobooks, podcasts and music for the young, she 公式文書，認めるd, but weeding through thousands of 選択s and jumping from 壇・綱領・公約 to 壇・綱領・公約 is a challenge since 音声部の content has 爆発するd over the last few years.
Dad blogger Balint Horvath in Zurich agreed after trying to make sense of kid 選択s for his 14-month-old daughter.
"I couldn't find any 資源 that would 組織する podcasts によれば different 基準. （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） without proper searchability is like looking for a needle in a haystack," said Horvath, who 作品 as a 生産性 coach for 研究 and 開発 teams.
Audiobooks and music for kids have been around awhile, but podcasts made for the 3-to-12 始める，決める are 比較して new, 運動ing more parents to choose one-stop 壇・綱領・公約s that 含む all 判型s.
This 製品 image 解放（する）d by Pinna shows the Pinna app 陳列する，発揮するd on a computer, 動きやすい phone and tablet. The on-需要・要求する streaming service 申し込む／申し出s podcast , audiobook and music 編集s for kids. (Pinna 経由で AP)
需要・要求する is ``まず第一に／本来 driven by parents who are podcast listeners or audiobook fans,'" said Frannie Ucciferri, associate managing editor for the nonprofit ありふれた Sense マスコミ.
With a 抱擁する bump in podcasts 全体にわたる, the value of 音声部の content for kids hasn't been lost on companies large and small.
Spotify recently 開始する，打ち上げるd a new 広告-解放する／自由な app, Spotify Kids, as a 解放する／自由な 拡張 for 賞与金 family 加入者s. Not yet 利用できる in the U.S., it's packed with singalongs, soundtracks and stories for children as young as 3. A 壇・綱領・公約 called Pinna is の中で the 最新の to 開始する，打ち上げる 広告-解放する／自由な with a variety of content and ages in mind, at $7.99 a month or $79.99 a year. Others stick to podcasts alone, while アマゾン's FreeTime 制限のない 許すs parents to customize a child´s experience to 供給する the most 関連した 調書をとる／予約するs, ビデオs, apps and more without 広告s, starting at $2.99 a month.
Old-school 放送者s are also getting into the 行為／法令／行動する. Boston's WGBH, for instance, 広範囲にわたって 株 解放する／自由な of cost two of its 最高の，を越す podcasts for young people: "Molly of Denali," based on the TV series about a girl in Alaska, and "The Creeping Hour," for ages 8 to 12. More are planned as part of the public (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者's "現在進行中の 探検 of 音声部の storytelling," said WGBH spokeswoman Jeanne Hopkins.
Bonnie Way of Vancouver, British Columbia, has five kids, 範囲ing from 2 to 12, and like Musson, she pulls a lot of travel time with her brood. She reaches for audiobooks to keep them happy, even on short trips, and relies a lot on her 地元の library for 解放する／自由な 選択s.
"Yes, it can be challenging to find 調書をとる／予約するs that everyone is happy listening to. My 4-year-old is probably exposed to things that her older sisters wouldn't have heard at that age. We started with short stories like Robert Munsch and `Curious George,' and moved to longer stories like the `Chronicles of Narnia,'" she said.
Some of her kids are 傾向がある to 動議 sickness, and listening rather than reading helps, Way said. She sees other 利益s 同様に.
"Audiobooks create a 株d experience. We're able to discuss the 調書をとる／予約するs after we've listened to them, which has been a lot of fun," she said.
Maggie McGuire is a former teacher who has been in children's マスコミ for more than 20 years. She's now CEO of Pinna, which is 支援するd by the Graham Holdings Co., formed from what remained of The Washington 地位，任命する Co. after the 地位，任命する itself was sold to Jeff Bezos five years ago.
Pinna both curates and creates for kids ages 3 to 12. It 申し込む／申し出s more than 2,000 audiobooks, podcasts and songs while also producing 初めの podcasts, all 広告-解放する／自由な and in 同意／服従 with 連邦の 基準s 目的（とする）d at 保護するing children's privacy and safety online, McGuire said. It's 利用できる as an app and usable off the Pinna.fm website.
Podcasts, McGuire said, are a "fresh new 判型 that everyone's very excited about."
The company worked with parents and teachers to understand what they were looking for in 音声部の content. の中で their 優先s were a "one-stop 解答" and a high level of curation to 確実にする 質 and that all content was tucked into a 安全な 壇・綱領・公約 排他的に for kids.
"There's a real 願望（する） now to 人物／姿／数字 out how the マスコミ diet in a kid's day, in a kid's week, can 含む things that aren't wholly 審査する-based," McGuire said.
Last year, Pinna produced 25 podcasts of its own, and 計画（する）s to grow that number this year. Its 予定する of 初めのs accounts for half the listening の中で its 消費者s, McGuire said. The company 計画（する）s to 開始する，打ち上げる curated playlists this month. Not unlike other streamers, Pinna will mix new content with classic stories and other familiar 基準s.
含むd is Pinna's Peabody-winning podcast, "The Unexplainable 見えなくなる of 火星 Patel," a serial mystery 成し遂げるd by middle graders for middle graders. Another popular 初めの is "Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest," a 一連の fairy tales retold. It was written and produced by Adam Gidwitz, bestselling auth or of "A Tale Dark and Grimm."
For younger kids, Pinna partnered with 無作為の House Children's 調書をとる／予約するs to turn the publisher's popular Ron Roy 調書をとる／予約する series, "A to Z Mysteries," into a podcast. Mo Willems and Rick Riordan are の中で 最高の，を越す 指名するs in the company's audiobook 顔触れ on Pinna, along with music from Kidz Bop, They Might be 巨大（な）s and Ralph's World.
The アマゾン-owned Audible.com, a 支配的な 軍隊 in audiobooks, is also 得るing 利益s from the 増加するd 利益／興味 in kid content. In 2019, the company said, Audible listeners downloaded 40 パーセント more such content than they had in 2018. The company 申し込む／申し出s more than 30,000 肩書を与えるs for kids の中で more than 475,000 全体にわたる.
"Parents and families are excited about listening together before bedtime. They're listening on road trips. They're listening while they're making dinner," said Diana Dapito, a 上級の 副／悪徳行為 大統領，／社長 of content at Audible.
Audible worked with R.L. Stine on its 初めの "（軍の）野営地，陣営 Red Moon," with Pottermore Publishing on Wizarding World audiobooks and has produced more than 100 audiobooks of the "The Baby-Sitters Club" series, 含むing some narrated by Elle Fanning. In September, Audible 解放（する）d an 初めの of Jessica Khoury's middle-grade "The Mystwick School of Musicraft" with music 成し遂げるd by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra 青年 Orchestras. It's now in Audible's 最高の，を越す 20 most-listened-to kid 肩書を与えるs of all time.
Parents' nostalgia has played a 役割 in kids' listening, Dapito said, but so has the 出現 of home （衆議院の）議長s such as Alexa.
"It's easier than ever for kids to have 接近," she said, "and for everybody to come together."
