Ease into your weekend with songs and stories for kids of all ages.
Your host, Sam is guided by 50 years of MTPR Children’s program traditions and the excitement of sharing new and newly discovered stories, songs, and music. Guests are often coaxed to rise early Saturday mornings for a visit. Those who set their alarms early have included New York Times #1 best-selling authors, Grandma Dowdell (aka David Mills-Low), bagpipers and drummers, and Mrs. Stauffer’s 4th-grade class students.
A little mischief is often on the menu, as well as thoughtful and thought-provoking programming and just plain fun!
The Children’s Corner is part of Montana Public Radio’s comment to our younger listeners. Join us for our sister program, The Pea Green Boat, which airs Monday-Friday from 4-5 pm.
When not in Master control, Sam attempts to keep a herd of dairy goats out of his neighbor’s yard, though with limited success, learning along the way that “a well-behaved goat is a sick goat” and “if the wind can get through a fence, so can a goat”.
Remember:
Live simply
Care deeply
Love generously
Speak and act in kindness – especially at home and Listen with all your heart – especially to those you might disagree with
Send us an email at kids@mtpr.org
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We follow up our reading of "A Long Walk to Water" on the Children’s Corner with a visit from Ajang Agok, known as “AJ.”
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“… can a children’s book save the world … No but the young people who read them can!” -Linda Sue Park, TEDx Talk December 2, 2015
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On July 6, Sam Manno will host his last episode of Children’s Corner.
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Join us on the Children’s Corner this Saturday as we conclude our reading our Home of the Brave and host a visit by #1 New York Times best selling author and Newbery Medal-winning author Katherine Applegate.
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Katie Stone from The Children’s Hour will join us live on The Children’s Corner to introduce us to and share excepts from her six-part podcast, A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids.
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The Washington Middle School String Quintet played for us on the Children’s Corner last week for a live in-studio performance. Listen now as they perform holiday classics, works by Bach and Mozart and arrangements of contemporary popular music.
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MTPR's Lia Mendez was lucky enough to attend the grand opening of the newly expanded Gibson Acoustic Guitar Factory in Bozeman, Montana, where people use their hands to turn trees into music. Join Lia for an audio tour.
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Fred Child, host of Performance Today, will join us live to let the horse out of the barn and gallop through the woods as we learn how chipmunks got their…
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Tai has been thinking a lot about how it is all going to end … the earth becoming a rock in the middle of space.Tai looks to the past to predict future.…
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There is a Baby Shark or Little Potato or Hamster Dance stuck in your head on what seems like an endless loop.An “Earworm” has buried in and set up home.…