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Booklist blogs have been abuzz with notice about recent mystery award winners. I want to give a shout-out to great audiobook editions of the top children’s & YA prize winners:
Likely Stories announced the Edgar Awards youth winners:
Best Juvenile The Postcard, by Tony Abbott, audiobook from Listening Library
Best Young Adult Paper Towns, by John Green, audiobook [...]

I had the pleasure of serving as a judge for the Audies‘ Distinguished Achievement in Production award, with the wonderful requirement of critically listening to outstanding audiobooks. Here’s the official press release on the nominees from the Audio Publishers Association:
The Audio Publishers Association (APA) has announced three Audie nominees for the prestigious Audiobook of the [...]

Did you fall in love with the audiobook of this year’s Newbery Award-winning The Graveyard Book? Can’t get enough of author Neil Gaiman reading to you? Sit back and enjoy this…

Still need more? Watch Gaiman read The Graveyard Book to you!

It is award season! Today the Audio Publishers Association announced the finalists for the 2009 Audie Awards. From the APA:

Nominations Are Announced in 29 Categories
The Audio Publishers Association (APA) has announced nominations for the 2009 Audies competition. Winners will be announced at The Audies gala on May 29, 2009 at the New-York Historical Society in [...]

On February 8th, the 2009 Grammy Award winners were announced. Of course, I was more interested in the Spoken Word award winners than the music awards! But I am a fan of Alison Krauss, so I must take a break from audiobooks long enough to listen to her duet alblum Raising Sand with former Led [...]

The Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association sponsors the Amazing Audiobooks list of suggested listening for those ages 12-18, drawn from the previous two years of spoken-word releases. Essential purchases for YA collections, plus great cross-over listening for adults, too. Thanks to the committee and chair Lee Catalano for finding the [...]

Here is the final uncorrected list of titles named as the 2009 Notable Children’s Recordings by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. Both audiobooks and musical recordings are on the list, which includes titles of interest to children from birth to age twelve. Looking for the best [...]

Tomorrow will be a day of celebrating firsts, as Barack Obama is inaugurated as President of the United States. There’s another first to add to the list that you may not know about: Obama is the first standing president to have won TWO Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word recording, the Grammy for best audiobook. [...]

Thanks to Macmillan Audio for producing this fabulous behind-the-scene video look at the creation of the Dune audiobook series. You’ll see and hear master narrators Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton, and Simon Vance reflect on the honor of translating Herbert’s classic science fiction novels to the audio medium.  Paul Goodrich and Scott Sherratt demonstrate [...]

Last year at this time, I was tethered to my headphones, constantly listening to the best audiobooks of the year as chair of the Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production. This year, I can indulge in the speculation about which titles will be under discussion behind locked doors in Denver. And I can’t wait [...]