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DFTBA – order author Green reading The Fault in Our Stars, a limited-edition audiobook only available through Green’s website. There’s great additional content for fans who love the book, as well as teachers who include The Fault in Our Stars in literature classes. And for audiobook aficionados, it would be cool to contrast the author-read production with the [...]

John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, the 2013 Odyssey Award-winner, is the subject of my interview with Laura Grafton, who has directed all of Green’s audiobooks for Brilliance Audio. The interview appears in the current issue of Booklist magazine, but the word-count limit means that some of Grafton’s remarks had to be left out. So [...]

Top audiobooks named by American Library Association, from birth to adult. Last weekend, committee members debated the merits of the best audios of 2012 in Seattle. The complete results are now final & posted on the ALA website. Click the links below for the top recommended titles for school & library purchases – and for [...]

Top narrators & classic books for all ages. Get 27 eBooks plus audiobooks for FREE. From Jim Dale’s narration of Peter Pan & Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to selections by Booklist’s “Voice of Choice” recipients Simon Vance & Simon Prebble, this is an unbelievable batch of freebies – classic eBooks and the biggest names in audiobook narration, [...]

Including MUST-HAVE audiobook Skulduggery Pleasant, one of my all-time favorites! Grab this Odyssey Honor title – you’ll fall in love with Rupert Degas’ amazing narration. This week’s two free downloads from SYNC:  Skulduggery Pleasant. By Derek Landy. Read by Rupert Degas. Published by HarperAudio When a not-so-innocent twelve-year-old girl named Stephanie inherits her eccentric uncle’s estate, she must join forces with [...]

Kirby Heyborne’s ode to librarians closed the amazing Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production celebration at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Anaheim. Check out Kirby’s reactions to meeting librarians en mass on his blog I Love My Life. The standing-room only crowd was mesmerized by the Odyssey Honor narrators: Ghetto Cowboy, written by G. [...]

Narrators, autographs, FREE audios - #JIAM2012 June is Audiobook Month at the American Library Association’s Annual Convention in Anaheim. If you are attending, add these terrific FREE events to your calendar! SUNDAY June 24, 1:00pm – 4:00pm PopTop Stage,  located at the end of the 2700 aisle on the Exhibit Floor. Audio Publishers Association hosts “Get Caught [...]

Daniel Kraus‘ Rotters, narrated by Kirby Heyborne, won the 2012 Excellence in Audiobook Production Award, co-sponsored by the American Library Association’s ALSC & YALSA divisions and Booklist. The Odyssey Award is the top recognition for youth & young adult audiobooks, and the winner and honor titles are the standard of excellence for production and narration. [...]

Video evidence that Kirby Heyborne, narrator of this year’s Odyssey winner Rotters, is actually Cupid himself. Call this belated Valentine’s treat another one to add to the Heyborne “who knew” file!

Prize-winning audiobook from Listening Library/BOT just by sending an email! Here’s how to enter – and click here to see ALL of the featured titles – including this year’s Odyssey-winner Rotters: Listen Up, Librarians & Teachers! Help your young patrons and students discover the magic of storytelling on audio. Enter to WIN a free award-winning [...]