Friday Favorites - Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Episode 12 · Big rhyming send-off · Released July 3, 2026 · 10:54
One of the most inspiring rhyming books ever written, read with plenty of heart for a Friday send-off into the weekend. It leaves kids and grown-ups both thinking about the adventures still waiting ahead.
This episode is part of StoryBeam, a kids' story podcast co-hosted by a mom and her young daughter at the heart of StoryBeam Kids — a closed, parent-reviewed audio app with no open search and no algorithmic next-up.
For grown-ups
What to expect in this episode
The Seuss graduation classic read complete: great heights, slumps, the Waiting Place, lonely games, and mountains moved. Some genuinely moody stretches — dark streets, "things that scare you" — which is the book doing its job.
The moral: Life mixes soaring days with slumps and waiting — keep walking anyway.
Keep it going — ask your kid:
- What place do you most want to go?
- What do you do when you're stuck waiting?
- What's your mountain — the big thing you want to do someday?
From our own listen-through of this episode. Asking a question or two after a story is "dialogic reading" — one of the best-evidenced boosts to early language. More on how we review everything in Parent Corner.