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Today’s panel at ALA Annual was a happy reunion of nearly all the members of the 2008 Odyssey Award committee, while those missing lent their support from afar. The wonderful women who served with me on that first-year committee are an amazing group of children’s and YA literature experts with a deep knowledge of the [...]

Audiobook fans, mark your calendars now: Monday 7/13, 3:30-5:30pm, McCormick Place West in W-470b. This is a free event, no ticket needed. Grab your seats early, as last year this was a standing-room only event -I even spotted a few Newbery-award winners sitting on the floor! The Odyssey Award recognizes excellence in the production of [...]

Shoplifting $1500 worth of audiobooks? That’s what happened at Books-a-Million in Rock Hill, S.C. Here’s a quote from a WCNC.com story by Maria Kotula: “We busted him two months ago, he was going into our bathroom and stealing audio books,” says Deaton. She adds, “about $1500 worth of audio books in one day.” Thanks to [...]

Yay! Lisa Von Drasek takes on Kristof of the NYT on summer reading in her EarlyWord post Summer Reading? Good! Assigned Reading? Bad. The Horn Book’s Roger Sutton anticipated this debate last week with his Twitter question, “Topic for my class today: why does required reading feel more difficult?” My response? The automatic reaction of [...]

National Public Radio celebrates with a Reading Of The Declaration of Independence – listen in!

Celebrate with this fun animation video from Pez

July is here – time to plan for ALA! I’ll be part of the three panels below – one each day. Stop in and say hello! Booklist/Booklist Online: Books and Blogs, Made for Each Other? Saturday 1:30-3:00 McCormick Place West in W-192c. Librarians, readers, publishers, and authors have embraced blogs as a way to locate, [...]

Read Happy Birthday! The Walkman Turns 30 and see this quote from Martyn Williams on the PCWorld website: Sony introduced its Walkman portable cassette player thirty years ago this week, kicking off a revolution in the consumer electronics industry by changing the way people enjoy music. I’d add audiobooks to the revolution, and believe that [...]