Audiobooks at ALA

First of all, don’t forget about our contest to win a copy of My Sister’s Keeper on CD! Contest ends Monday, July 13 at 12:00PM Eastern.
If you’re attending ALA this year (click here if you still need a pass to the exhibit hall!), be sure to check out the audiobook events and stay tuned to [...]

2009 Audie Winners from Recorded Books

We'd like to congratulate Neil Gaiman for winning not one, but two Audie Awards on Friday, including one for Audiobook of the Year!

From the review of the Audiobook of the Year, The Graveyard Book:

Neil Gaiman is one of the true gems in the audio industry. He’s a great writer who not only reads his own [...]

2009 Odyssey Award & Schneider Family Award Winners

We’re thrilled to announce that our recording of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian won the 2009 Odyssey Award for “the best audiobook produced for youth available in English in the United States”! The book, written and narrated by Sherman Alexie, is also the 2007 National Book Award winner (Young People’s Literature) and [...]

2009 Newbery Exclusive

Neil Gaiman is he winner of the 2009 Newbery Award for The Graveyard Book—and we are proud to offer the book exclusively on audio! The audiobook, narrated by the author himself, is also an AudioFile Earphones Award winner. Congratulations to all the ALA Youth Media Award winners—and especially to Neil! And be sure to read [...]

Are Newbery Winners Too Hard?

An article from the Washington Post reflects on the recent School Library Journal article that questioned the value of the Newbery Medal. The Washington Post article says, “Of the 25 winners and runners-up chosen from 2000 to 2005, four of the books deal with death, six with the absence of one or both parents and [...]

Thanks for listening (& 2008 Newbery Winner!)

For those of you who caught us on the radio last week – thanks for listening! We’re working on getting audio of the broadcast up on the blog.
In the meantime, we’re excited to announce that we’re in production with this year’s Newbery Medal winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz on audiobook. In [...]

2007 National Book Award Winner

2007 National Book Award Winner The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is available on audio from Recorded Books.
A starred review from School Library Journal says, “The teen’s determination to both improve himself and overcome poverty, despite the handicaps of birth, circumstances, and race, delivers a positive message in a low-key [...]

Recent Award Winners from Recorded Books

One Green Apple, a beginning reader book by Eve Bunting, recently won the Arab American National Museum Book Award. The story of a young Arab girl who goes on a class field trip to the apple orchard on her first day of school in America, it shows students that being different can make life beautiful. [...]