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-LL 2017 YALSA Amazing Audiobooks & ALSC Notable Children’s Recordings Submitted by Kristen Luby on January 30, 2017

Listening Library is proud to announce this year’s Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults and Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Notable Children’s Recordings. Share these outstanding listens with your young patrons. Read more

Tagged: ALA Awards, Allan Corduner, ALSC, ALSC Notable Children's Recordings, ANNA AND THE SWALLOW MAN, Gavriel Savit, YALSA, YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults

Awards & Recognition, Featured-LL 2016 YALSA Amazing Audiobooks & ALSC Notable Children’s Recordings Submitted by Kristen Luby on January 25, 2016

Tagged: ALA Awards, ALSC, ALSC Notable Children's Recordings, Jayne Entwistle, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, THE WAR THAT SAVED MY LIFE, YALSA, YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults

Awards & Recognition Listening Library’s 2015 ALA Award Winners Submitted by Kristen Luby on February 4, 2015

Listening Library is proud to celebrate this year’s ALA award winners on audiobook. Winners were announced Monday, February 2 in Chicago, IL at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. Share these outstanding listens with your young patrons. Read more

Tagged: ALA Awards, ALA Midwinter 2015, ALSC, ALSC Notable Children's Recordings, AND WE STAY, BROWN GIRL DREAMING, Candace Fleming, Coretta Scott King Award, GABI A GIRL IN PIECES, Isabel Quintero, Jacqueline Woodson, Jason Reynolds, Jayne Entwistle, Jenny Hubbard, Julie Berry, Len Vlahos, Newbery Medal, Odyssey Award, Printz Award, Sibert Award, Steve Sheinkin, THE FAMILY ROMANOV, THE PORT CHICAGO 50, THE SCANDALOUS SISTERHOOD OF PRICKWILLOW PLACE, THE SCAR BOYS, WHEN I WAS THE GREATEST, William C. Morris Award, YALSA, YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults

Collection Development Popular Classics with Fresh Recordings and Original Art Submitted by Jodie Cohen on October 11, 2013

Classics and Audiobooks are a perfect pair. Let’s face it, many classics may be inaccessible to contemporary readers since they contain obsolete words, outmoded expressions, and difficult sentence construction that can place them out of reach for some children Read more