The Book Nook By Play Academy

Play Academy Africa

A community-driven storytime show for kids. Our podcast goes beyond entertainment; it is a powerful educational tool. Each meticulously crafted episode features age-appropriate content, narrated by different people, predominantly parents, from across Africa. Coupled with immersive soundscapes, our stories transport children to magical worlds, stimulating their imagination, enhancing literacy skills, and nurturing a lifelong love for reading.

  1. EP 32 - The Portrait Challenge (A Kunda Kids Book)

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    EP 32 - The Portrait Challenge (A Kunda Kids Book)

    We’re so excited to be back with another amazing story voiced by children’s book author, and co- founder of Kunda Kids. Kunda Kids brings African stories to life! Award-winning books, music & media that make early learning joyful, empowering & proudly cultural. We're so grateful to Kunda Kids for so graciously sharing this story with us. ✨Credits✨ Story courtesy of: Kunda Kids Voiced By: Oladele Olafuyi Episode Production: Verge Group Sound Design: Marcus Garvey Download the Kunda Kids app to access more stories or visit kundakids.com to learn more about Kunda Kids and where you can find their books. Submit A Story We'd love to hear your little one's story or feedback. Feel free to leave us a voice note on our Spotify or DM us on Instagram. We love hearing from our little listeners! Enjoyed this story? The Booknook is a true labour of love created alongside running a small business and raising a family. If this story brought a little calm, joy, or connection into your day, you can help us keep the magic going. You’re welcome to support the podcast with a donation via M-Pesa Till 9066503, which helps us cover coordination, recording, and production behind the scenes. We’re also opening up space for community support. If you’re someone who enjoys organising, coordinating readers, sourcing stories, or even hosting an episode now and then and you’d love to be part of growing this village we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us at zain@playroom.ke Thank you for listening, for sharing, and for being part of our story.

    7 min
  2. 04/18/2025

    EP 30 - The Martians

    Kabi and Sasha are playing outside. Kabi and Sasha are playing outside. Sasha lies down and sees a red spot among the stars. This is the start of an interesting story about Mars. The Martians is a STEM children’s book by Little Einsteins under the series STEM Adventures of Kabi and Sasha. Through the adventures of Kabi and Sasha children will learn fun facts in STEM in a book by us, for us. Little Einsteins East Africa seeks to inspire and teach students about the world of science, technology, engineering and math through entertaining hands-on activities. Their aim is to guide a new generation of young science explorers through genuine passion in learning how the world works and they have exciting programs for kids of all ages to join. Check out the Little Einsteins website   or instagram page to order the book or learn more about this amazing initiative! They've got some great programmes for the April Holidays! ✨Credits✨ Written by: Wambui Murimi Voiced by: Kavindu Mbathi, Musembi Mbathi, and their mum and Founder of Little Einsteins, Mugure Njendu. Episode Production: Verge Digital ⁠ Sound Design: Marcus Garvey Submit A Story We'd love to hear your little one's story or feedback. Feel free to leave us a voice note on our Spotify or DM us on Instagram and we may work to bring their story to life and publish it as a bonus episode. Enjoyed this story? Help us keep it going and bring more magic your way consider donating via MPESA Till 9066503 or Paypal ⁠zain@playroom.ke⁠ . More ways to support us:  ✨Follow us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and share our stories so you never miss an episode. It also helps other families find us! ✨If you’re an author and would love to share your story, reach out to us on the contacts on our Instagram page  ✨Join our book subscription service (Kenya) to receive 2 books every month  ✨Follow us on Instagram - ⁠@booknook.ke⁠ | ⁠@playacademy.africa⁠ for updates on upcoming events

    3 min

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A community-driven storytime show for kids. Our podcast goes beyond entertainment; it is a powerful educational tool. Each meticulously crafted episode features age-appropriate content, narrated by different people, predominantly parents, from across Africa. Coupled with immersive soundscapes, our stories transport children to magical worlds, stimulating their imagination, enhancing literacy skills, and nurturing a lifelong love for reading.