Featured-LL, Interview Family Bonding with Audiobooks: An Author and Librarian in Conversation Submitted by Sydney Czech on February 18, 2021

When the full cast audiobook edition of Liza Wiemer’s YA novel The Assignment was released, educators reached out to ask about using it in their classrooms. This led her to notice a wider trend: not only was she hearing about teachers incorporating audiobooks into lessons, but also parents who were listening to audiobooks along with their children. Read more

Tagged: Author, author-read, In Conversation, Librarian, q&a

Featured, Video The Many Voices of Ethan Hawke: Listen Now! Submitted by Sydney Czech on January 12, 2021

Ethan Hawke returns to our list this February with a new novel, A BRIGHT RAY OF DARKNESS—narrated on audio by Hawke himself! In the studio, we asked him, “What do you love most about libraries?” Hear (and share and like!) his answer of how libraries inspire him in our Instagram post below. Read more

Tagged: Audiobook, author-read, Celebrity narrators, Ethan Hawke, Narrator

Collection Development, Featured-LL Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges to Narrate THIS IS YOUR TIME audiobook Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on August 14, 2020

***CIVIL RIGHTS ICON RUBY BRIDGES TO PUBLISH THIS IS YOUR TIME, INSPIRATIONAL NEW BOOK AND AUDIOBOOK COMING FALL 2020*** Read more

Tagged: author-read, Civil Rights, Read by the Author

Awards & Recognition, Featured, Featured Titles Rave audiobook reviews for Michelle Obama’s BECOMING Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on November 21, 2018

Listen to the first audiobook clip from the former First Lady and hear why BECOMING, written and read by Michelle Obama, is a must for your audiobook collection. BECOMING is also Oprah’s newest book club selection! As Michelle Obama shared to a room of thousands of librarians at the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans, “We all belong and I think my book is just the ordinariness of a very extraordinary story… Read more

Tagged: author-read, BECOMING, Michelle Obama, starred reviews