As kid podcast audiences grow, it’s not surprising that kidcast creators are branching out into other mediums, including books.

Here are nine popular podcast series that have produced books. These titles make great companions for listening, but can also stand on their own.

Noodle Loaf

BOOKS Families Grow; Families Can; Families Belong. All titles by Dan Saks, illus. by Brooke Smart.
Ages 3-9 –A musician, author, and music educator, Saks creates and hosts this lively musical show with call-and-response, rhyming, and echo songs. Saks and Smart also created a series of board books about families. These three use rhyming stanzas to celebrate difference, inclusion, and growth within families.

Circle Round

BOOKS A Taste of Honey by Rebecca Sheir, illus. by Chaaya Prabhat; The Unwelcome Guest by Sheir, illus. by Mert Tugen.
Ages 5 Up –Circle Round tells stories from around the world. A Taste of Honey is a Pakistani and Indian tale in which Kamala must outsmart a bevy of robbers to showcase her honey and support her family. The Unwelcome Guest, a story about superficiality, is rooted in Turkish and other cultures.

The Past & The Curious

BOOKS The Meatshower by Mick ­Sullivan, illus. by Shae Goodlett.
Ages 5-12 –The Past and the Curious shares interesting snippets from history and profiles of notable, oft-overlooked historical figures.
The Meatshower is a picture book about a day when meat fell from the sky in Bath County, KY, on March 3, 1876.

Brains On! Science

BOOKS Brains On! Presents…It’s Alive: From Neurons and Narwhals to the Fungus Among Us; Earth Friends Forever; Road Trip Earth. All titles by Molly Bloom, Marc Sanchez, and Sanden Totten. Earth Friends Forever is illus. by Mike Orodán.
Ages 5-12 –Using a mix of jokes, facts, and interviews, the folks at American Public Media teach about science, discussing everything from garbage to squirrel tricks and why we lose our teeth.
It’s Alive tackles all things alive and includes comics, factoids, trivia, and “Moments of Eww.” Earth Friend Forever is a picture book about the impact of plastic on the earth. Road Trip Earth teaches earth science.

Story Pirates

BOOKS (“The Story Pirates Present” series): Stuck in the Stone Age by Geoff Rodkey; Quest for the Crystal Crown by Annabeth Bondor Stone and Connor White; Diggin up Danger by Jacqueline West.
Ages 8-12 –In the podcast, the cast of characters take kids’ books and essays and make them into a drama-musical-silliness-smorgasbord.
These related titles—which include sci-fi, mystery, and fantasy—are based on listeners’ story ideas and actively encourage young writers with a follow-along creative writing guide.

The Story Seeds Podcast

BOOKS Imagination Lab: Experiments in Creativity by Sandhya Nankani and Alicia Zadrozny.
Ages 7-13 –Story Seeds, hosted by librarian, author, book reviewer, and SLJ blogger Betsy Bird, pairs a popular children’s author with a child who has a great idea for a story, and together they talk about the story idea. Then the author completes the story and records it for an episode.
Imagination Lab: Experiments in ­Creativity is a listening companion for the show as well as an engaging activity book. Notable authors from the podcast offer writing tips in the book, which also includes fun writing prompts and engaging activities for children to create their own stories.

The Imagine Neighborhood

BOOKS Radio Free Imagine Neighborhood by Scotty Iseri and Michal Richardson.
Ages 4 Up –Creator and Imagine Neighborhood host Scotty Iseri works with researchers and other writers to teach social-emotional learning skills and creative problem-solving techniques through stories, music, and guided activities.
The activity book Radio Free Imagine Neighborhood is designed to encourage kids to grow their social-emotional knowledge through projects that range from making a toilet paper tube kazoo to solving puzzles, writing stories and songs, and more.

This Week in the Multiverse

BOOKS (“Me vs. the Multiverse” series): Pleased to Meet Me; Enough About Me. Both by S.G. Wilson
Ages 8-12 –This Week in the Multiverse explores what life is like in not-quite-earths, where things are not-quite-right.
In the books, a perfectly average middle schooler has his life upended when he discovers there are dozens of “Me”s gathered for a Me Convention. In the first book, he must stop an evil version of him from destroying the universe.

The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian: Science Fiction for Kids

BOOKS “Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian” series by Jonathan Messinger, illus. by Aleksei Bitskoff.
Ages 6-10 –The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian host Jonathan Messinger started as a serialized science-fiction story for kids about an eight-year-old boy aboard the “Marlowe 280 Interplanetary Exploratory Space Station.” He and his friends explore uncharted planets, help the occasional alien, and solve mysteries throughout their ­adventures.
Messinger teamed with Bitskoff to release the middle grade series. Both the podcast and books pay homage to children’s classics. Robot sidekicks are named after characters from favorite books, and the show host discusses the books that inspired many of the show’s story lines with his editor (and son) at the end of most episodes.

The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian: Science Fiction for Kids

BOOKS “Alien Adventures Of Finn Caspian” series by Jonathan Messinger, illus. by Aleksei Bitskoff
Ages 6-10 –The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian started as a serialized science-fiction story for kids, hosted and written by Jonathan Messinger, about an 8-year-old boy aboard the “Marlowe 280 Interplanetary Exploratory Space Station.” He and his friends explore uncharted planets, help the occasional alien, and solve mysteries throughout their adventures.

Messinger teamed with Bitskoff to release a middle-grade series. Both the podcast and books are examples of fiction that pay homage to great children’s classics—from the way robot sidekicks are named after characters from favorite books to the way the show host discusses the books-based inspiration for many of the show’s storylines with his editor (and son) at the end of most episodes.

Phoebe Owens is a freelance librarian and writer, and co-creator of the podcast The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland. Ali Wilkinson is a non-profit attorney, writer, and co-creator of the podcast Cool Facts About Animals.