337. Aarohan asks: What if robots had emotions? (w/ Dagmara Sitek)

What If World - Stories for Kids

Eric O'Keeffe / What If World LLC

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Comedy Fiction, Fiction

4.5 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Our guest Dagmara voices Arrowbot, a young robot taking her first art class. Can she figure out how to share her feelings through art, or will she need help from Articus P. Thumbler? Lessons include: Art can help us express and understand our feelings; You are an artist if you keep practicing, no matter your ability level. Go to couragetales.com to learn more about “Cam Creates a Hero” and other great children’s books by Dagmara Sitek! Subscribe to What If World wherever you listen: link.chtbl.com/whatifworld. Want more kids podcasts for the whole family? Grown-ups, subscribe to Starglow+ here. Learn more about Starglow Media here. Follow Starglow on Instagram and YouTube Eric and Karen O'Keeffe make What If World. Our character art is by Ana Stretcu, and our episode art is by Lynn Hickernell. A big thanks to our producer Miss Lynn. Our podcast art is by Jason O’Keefe, and our theme song is by Craig Martinson.

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0:00.0	What if kittens played the Glockingfield?
0:07.0	And what if unicorns were real?
0:12.0	What if you could fly or travel back in time?
0:17.0	We welcome you to What If World.
0:24.6	What If World? This is What If World.
0:28.6	Hey there, folks, and welcome back to What If World, the show where your questions and ideas inspire off-the-cuff stories.
0:39.0	I'm Mr. Eric, your host, and today I am delighted to introduce a writer to you that I've been trying to work with for months.
0:47.8	She has created this awesome story called Cam Creates a Hero, and her name is Dagmara Sittak.
0:54.6	Hi, everyone.
0:56.0	Hi, Dagmarra, thank you so much for coming on the show.
1:00.0	Can you tell the kids a little bit about what you do?
1:03.0	Sure. First of all, I'm very excited that I am here.
1:06.0	I'm a children's book author from Montreal, Canada,
1:10.0	and I focus on writing stories about foster
1:14.0	children. So that's what I do. That's awesome. So, and Cam creates a hero, which is available
1:20.8	on Couragetails.com, this illustrated book, there's a kid named Cam, and they draw a robot, right?
1:28.4	That's correct. Cam is a foster boy living with other foster siblings, who is very sensitive.
1:35.1	And one day he decides that he is going to create a hero robot, and the only problem is he cannot make him work.
1:43.8	It's a really great story about dealing with your frustrations and just showing resilience
1:49.8	and trying again.
1:51.8	And Lau Frank is the illustrator and it just looks really beautiful as well.
1:56.7	So I encourage you to check that out.
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