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Booklist’s Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries – a new & improved monthly e-newsletter – debuts today with great ideas for teachers, librarians, parents, and caregivers. Sign up for your FREE connection to reviews of the newest & best in children’s and YA literature, as well as exclusive content such this month’s columns on mystery [...]

Wonder if your comments are heard? John Green, Kaite Mediatore Stover, Nora Rawlinson, and I responded to Keir Graff as he posed the comment question during the “Books and Blogs: Made for Each Other?” session at the American Library Association’s annual conference. Of course I recorded the session for you audiophiles, available here
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In honor of Comic-Con, watch superhero legend Lee record his Feedback comic book for Reading for the Blind & Dyslexic, the nation’s educational library serving people with print disabilities.

This terrific look inside Full Cast Audio’s production of Eyes like Stars by Lisa Mantchev includes comments from actors, Full Cast founder Bruce Coville, artistic director Daniel Bostick, and more. I love seeing how the cast rehearses, how the script pages are marked, and to see & hear readers morph from actor to character. Lots [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to Day 5 of the Share a Story, Shape a Future blog tour – be sure to visit all of the sites focusing on literacy this week. Today’s focus is “Technology and Reading – What the Future Holds” and is hosted by Elizabeth O. Dulemba. Visit Elizabeth’s blog for the complete post with information [...]

I am taking part in the Share a Story, Shape a Future event the week of March 9-13, blogging about the role of audiobooks in children’s literacy. Here’s the week’s line up – be sure to stop in!
Day 1: Raising Readers
hosted by Terry Doherty at Scrub-a-Dub-Tub, the Reading Tub blog

Finding Time at Home – Tricia [...]

Here’s another great audiobook blog to explore – this time from Recorded Books: http://recordedbooks.wordpress.com/ Especially useful for educators & school librarians, the RB blog has frequent posts that have free downloads, classroom resources, research on audioboooks, author interviews, and lots more. They even had a batch of audiobook valentines for printing. Recorded Books is also [...]

There’s a new audiobook blog: Just Press Play, from Playaway’s Senior Manager for Content Strategy David Perrotta. Stop by to see which titles from the ALA Media Awards are available on Playaway. And Perrotta isn’t afraid to delve into librarian-talk, such as his post on MARC: Is Playaway a Sound Recording or an Electronic Resource? [...]

Looking for another audiobook link? Try Sound Commentary, an endeavor of Jean Palmer & Francine Levitov, two reviwers for the now-defunct Kliatt magazine. And I love their logo: