Explorer's Club Podcast

Opal Watson is a detective. She solves mysteries of lost cats, spooky laughs and missing packages. Author Natasha Tarpley talks with us about Opal, the books she writes for kids, and her favorite language that isn't English (here’s a hint: Guten tag!).

On this edition of The Explorer’s Club, we tag along with Emily Graslie, host of the PBS show "Prehistoric Road Trip." We learn about the ancient history of America’s Northern Great Plains by discovering fossils, clams, dinosaur bones and more! We also get tips and tricks for our own fossil finding expeditions. 

We’re not just going to play music for you this morning, oh no — we’re going to bring you into the mix with songs that get you moving, grooving and singing. Noodle Loaf podcast host and music teacher Dan Saks joins the program to encourage some creative fun.

Newbery Medal award-winning author Avi has written dozens and dozens of books… About girl pirates, wild escapes and hidden identities, friendly mice and so much more. The writer takes us on an adventure through his books and gives kids some tips for writing, too.

If you like to clap your hands… If you like to pretend to be a giraffe… And especially if you like to eat grapes, this show is for you. Silly-song music makers Andrew and Polly bring you their very best Ear Snacks — and a little music lesson, too. 

The members of "Odd Squad," an investigation agency run by kids, spend their days looking into weird, strange and especially odd mysteries. Agent Orla, Agent Omar and their boss, Big O, are here to tell us all about the problems they’ve been solving lately.

Ever heard of the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876? What about Dr. Rush’s thunderclapper pills or the mysterious Ziryab of medieval Iraq? Nope, nope and nope? If you want to learn about all that and more of the quirkiest stuff in history, join us to talk with the host of a history show just for kids. 

Newbery Medal-winning author Erin Entrada Kelly has stories in her brain all the time. When she writes them down, things get really interesting. She writes about unexpected friendships, bullies, family and so much more.

Love snakes, lizards, rats, and toads? Join us as a few animal experts give us the lowdown on animals that creep, crawl, slink, slither and slime. Then at 8:30, Wild Kratts star Chris Kratt brings us on an adventure and tells us about some of the weirdest and most wonderful animals on the planet.

The king of kids’ horror, the man who’s brought us cursed coffins, evil cheerleaders and headless ghosts, joins "The Morning Show" to make our blood run cold. R.L. Stine tells us a scary story for the radio and reveals how he’s tapped into what terrifies us most to write over 200 Goosebumps books.