Awards & Recognition, Featured-LL Listeners’ Advisory for your Littlest Patrons: 2020 ALSC Notable Children’s Recordings Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on January 30, 2020

Looking for the best audiobooks to recommend to young readers? The ALSC Notable Children’s Recordings list “includes recordings for children 14 years of age and younger of especially commendable quality that demonstrate respect for young people’s intelligence and imagination; exhibit venturesome creativity; and reflect and encourage the interests of children and young adolescents in exemplary ways.” Read more

Tagged: ALA Awards, ALA Youth Media Awards, ALSC Notable Children's Recordings

Awards & Recognition, Featured Celebrating the 2020 RUSA Listen List! Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on January 28, 2020

We’re thrilled to celebrate our 2020 RUSA Listen List Winners! As the committee explains on their page: “The final juried list of thirteen titles highlights extraordinary narrators and listening experiences that merit special attention by a general adult audience and the librarians who advise them.” Do you offer these 7 outstanding BOT titles in your audio collections? Read more

Tagged: ALA Awards, RUSA Listen List

Awards & Recognition, Awards & Recognition, Featured, Featured-LL, Listening Library Celebrating the 2020 YALSA Amazing Audiobooks! Submitted by Erin Murphy on January 28, 2020

The YALSA Amazing Audiobooks list is aimed towards young adults aged 12-18 and is drawn from the previous year of spoken-word releases. Read on for the fantastic listens from BOT & Listening Library—including 4 Top Ten selections—that made the list this year! You can view the YALSA Committee’s comments and full list here. Read more

Tagged: A.S. King, ALA Awards, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Andy Weir, Arwen Elys Dayton, Chesire Crossing, Daisy Jones and the Six, David Yoon, Dig, Emily Woo Zeller, Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Frankly in Love, Julie Berry, Karen M. McManus, Kat Cho, Kirby Heyborne, Kwame Onwuachi, Laurie Halse Anderson, Lovely War, Mike Chamberlain, Miranda Tapsell, Notes From a Young Black Chef, Patron Saints of Nothing, R.J. Palacio, Ramón de Ocampo, Randy Ribay, Roller Girl, Ruta Sepetys, Shout, Sophie Amoss, Stronger Faster and More Beautiful, Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Fountains of Silence, The Things She's Seen, Tonya Cornelisse, Two Can Keep a Secret, Victoria Jamieson, White Bird, Wicked Fox

Awards & Recognition, Featured-LL American Library Association’s 2018 Youth Media Award Winners on Audio Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on February 15, 2018

The American Library Association’s 2018 Youth Media Awards were announced on Monday morning at the ALA Midwinter Convention in Denver, Colorado and we are excited to share our TWO new 2018 Odyssey Award Honors with you, as well as twenty-five ALSC Notable and YALSA Amazing audiobooks! Plus, from the Printz to the Pura Belpré, we have a not-to-be-missed list of remarkable award winners in the audio format, perfect to recommend to kids and teens at your library. Listen to clips, read reviews, and find more fun content to share below. Read more

Tagged: A BOY CALLED CHRISTMAS, ALA, ALA Awards, ALA Midwinter, Matt Haig, Michael Sheen, Odyssey Award, Philip Pullman, Stephen Fry, THE BOOK OF DUST: LA BELLE SAUVAGE, THE STARS BENEATH OUR FEET, WE ARE OKAY

Awards & Recognition 2017 Odyssey Awards Speech: Orli Moscowitz, audiobook producer of ANNA AND THE SWALLOW MAN Submitted by Kristen Luby on July 31, 2017

Orli Moscowitz is the 2017 Odyssey Award-winning producer of ANNA AND THE SWALLOW MAN by Gavriel Savit, narrated by Allan Corduner. Her speech was delivered at the American Library Association Conference in Chicago, Illinois on June 26, 2017. Read more

Tagged: ALA Annual, ALA Awards, Allan Corduner, ANNA AND THE SWALLOW MAN, awards, Gavriel Savit, Odyssey Award, Orli Moscowitz, speech

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