EP Recommendations for 9 year old

[Jeremiah042]

My daughter just listened to Good Hunting and loved it, and now she's asking for more, but since I've been away from the podcast for so long (I listened at the very start, then missed a few years, and I'm back) I don't know which are good for a younger set.

-limited swearing : no "f*ck", limited everything else
-romantic love is fine, gratuitous sex isn't
-violence is fine, though I'm not looking for gore

I'll listen to them all before she does, so feel free to recommend good stories that might be on the line of my posted limits.

Thanks!

[Cutter McKay]

Off the top of my head, stories that I loved that I think would be appropriate for a youngster would include, Marking Time on the Far Side of Forever, Aftermaths, and The Homecoming. Definitely steer clear of Punk Voyager, Trixie and the Pandas of Dread, and Cerbo un Vitra ujo. Not child friendly.

Also, if she wants some fantasy from PodCastle, too, Sundae is one of the best stories they've run in a long time.

[DKT]

I know you asked for EP stories, but if you're not scared off by fantasy, I'd recommend checking out The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz, that just went live over at PodCastle. Fun story, and the narration is superb. (Of course, as the editor, I'm biased.)

(I also wouldn't actually recommend Sundae for most kids - no offense to Cutter McKay. It does have an ass-kicking teddy bear, but it's extremely violent, and there's some other very R-rated stuff. But if you want more suggestions for fantasy, I'd be happy to give them.)

Uh, other, actual EP stories...

A lot of the stuff by Mike Resnick: Barnaby in Exile, Soulmates, Travels with my Cats

Hesperia and Glory, by Ann Leckie

Tideline, by Elizabeth Bear

Edward Bear and the Long Walk, by Ken Scholes

Will You Be An Astronaut, by Greg Van Eekhout

We Go Back, by Tim Pratt (I'd say Impossible Dreams, too - but the cinematic context of that one may not be as enjoyable for a younger listener? But it's one of my faves.)

Midnight Blue,  by Will McIntosh

Clockwork Fagin, by Cory Doctorow

That oughta get you started

[Devoted135]

Of course the first thing that came to mind was anything with "Squonk" in the title.

Off the top of my head and with a recommendation you vet them yourself just to be sure...

EP352: Food for Thought

EP322 Honor Killing

EP285 Jaiden's Weaver

EP253 Eugene

[Icky]

Off the top of my head, stories that I loved that I think would be appropriate for a youngster would include, Marking Time on the Far Side of Forever, Aftermaths, and The Homecoming. Definitely steer clear of Punk Voyager, Trixie and the Pandas of Dread, and Cerbo un Vitra ujo. Not child friendly.

Also, if she wants some fantasy from PodCastle, too, Sundae is one of the best stories they've run in a long time.

Language in Trixie, no?    Similar language and some drug references in Punk Voyager...   Cerbo is certainly not child friendly... 

Remember, "9 Year Old Daughter".   I have a 12 year old daughter, and, although the language doesn't bother me, I don't think I'd let her consume the other content just yet...      Good stories.  Bad suggestions.
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Do they have to be in podcast or audio form?   She's 9, right?   Shove something tactile in her fingers - she'll thank you for it later.

My suggestions:

A Wrinkle In Time
The Prydain Chronicles (Spell on Prydain?)   <----  This is pure fantasy with "magic and stuff"... but a great kids read.

[Devoted135]

Off the top of my head, stories that I loved that I think would be appropriate for a youngster would include, Marking Time on the Far Side of Forever, Aftermaths, and The Homecoming. Definitely steer clear of Punk Voyager, Trixie and the Pandas of Dread, and Cerbo un Vitra ujo. Not child friendly.

Also, if she wants some fantasy from PodCastle, too, Sundae is one of the best stories they've run in a long time.

Language in Trixie, no?    Similar language and some drug references in Punk Voyager...   Cerbo is certainly not child friendly... 

Remember, "9 Year Old Daughter".   I have a 12 year old daughter, and, although the language doesn't bother me, I don't think I'd let her consume the other content just yet...      Good stories.  Bad suggestions.

Cutter said to steer clear of them...

[matweller]

Do they have to be in podcast or audio form?   She's 9, right?   Shove something tactile in her fingers - she'll thank you for it later.

This is not me commenting on you, this is me sharing a funny story that came to mind when I read this. We were at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum last week, and in one area there was a bulletin board with the question "What apps do you recommend for kids?" with Post-It notes for people to respond. There were roughly 30 responses and at least 4 of them were variations on "None! Let your kid outside to play!" and every time I read one I shook my head and hated humanity a little more. It was like Kathy Bates in The Waterboy answering every question with "No! ___ is the DEVIL!" I do encourage my kids to go out and play. I do make sure they read or get read to every night. But that doesn't change the fact that they can't go out and play when I'm waiting in line at the bank. It doesn't change the fact that they can't go out and play on the street after dark until bedtime. I just wanted to shake those idiots and say "Answer the question or STFU! I'm asking for help, not tangent, uninformed social commentary!"

Forgive my aside, I just got a smile from the memory and thought someone else might get a laugh too.

[Devoted135]

Do they have to be in podcast or audio form?   She's 9, right?   Shove something tactile in her fingers - she'll thank you for it later.

This is not me commenting on you, this is me sharing a funny story that came to mind when I read this. We were at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum last week, and in one area there was a bulletin board with the question "What apps do you recommend for kids?" with Post-It notes for people to respond. There were roughly 30 responses and at least 4 of them were variations on "None! Let your kid outside to play!" and every time I read one I shook my head and hated humanity a little more. It was like Kathy Bates in The Waterboy answering every question with "No! ___ is the DEVIL!" I do encourage my kids to go out and play. I do make sure they read or get read to every night. But that doesn't change the fact that they can't go out and play when I'm waiting in line at the bank. It doesn't change the fact that they can't go out and play on the street after dark until bedtime. I just wanted to shake those idiots and say "Answer the question or STFU! I'm asking for help, not tangent, uninformed social commentary!"

Forgive my aside, I just got a smile from the memory and thought someone else might get a laugh too.

It's funny, I was a bookworm who played outside All The Time, until the summer between 5th and 6th grade, when I was a bookworm who rode her bike to get books from the library and went miles out of her way pretty much every day just to be able to ride more. After that I was a bookworm who pretty much stayed inside, because at that point who was there to play outside with? So um, I guess what I mean to agree is, "do both."

[Fenrix]

While I can't really answer the specific question because I don't listen with the idea of parsing out for younguns, have you check out Cast of Wonders which is specifically a YA Spec Fic podcast?

[flintknapper]

ditto what fenrix said, cast of wonders is great for kids. I would also say that much of what podcastle produces is appropriate for children too. It is the most child friendly of the escape artist audios.

[SonofSpermcube]

I am almost caught up to the present, starting from about 150 episodes back, and these are the ones I think I could see my 9 year old self (started reading science fiction at age 7) having liked, or ones that I think someone who liked Good Hunting might like: 

A Gun for Dinosaur
Dead Merchandise
Elias, Smith and Jones
Oubliette
Springtime for Deathtraps  (all of the Deathtraps stories, really)
Lion Dance
Jaiden’s Weaver
Techno-Rat
Chasers
Like a Hawk in its Gyre
113 Feet
Hawksbill Station
The Paper Menagerie
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees
The Water Man
The Eckener Alternative
Revenants
Long Winter's Nap
The Prize Beyond Gold
Midnight Blue
Leech Run
We Go Back
Plus Or Minus
For Want of a Nail
The ’76 Goldwater Dime
Rejiggering the Thingamajig
Schrödinger’s Cat Lady
God of the Lower Level
We are Ted Tuscadero for President
Cruciger
Billion-Dollar View
The Last McDougal's
Wind From a Dying Star
The Secret Protocols of the Elders of Zion (social/religious marijuana use)
Littleblossom Makes a Deal With the Devil

[Fenrix]

Lion Dance

Are you sure you don't mean the Podcastle story Rising Lion - The Lion Bows? The PC one is PG, whereas the EP Lion Dance is rated 15 and up for language and adult situations.

[SonofSpermcube]

Oh yeah.  I kind of forgot what the MacGuffin was in that story. 

It kind of squeaks by her criteria though, no gratuitous sex IIRC, but it is implied.

[Fenrix]

Some episodes that occurred to me recently are:

The Deathtrap Series (The Trouble with Death Traps, Ghost in the Death Trap, and Springtime for Death Traps)

Squonk Series - no one is too old to love Squonk