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ALSC names 2008 Notable Children’s Recordings

YALSA names 2008 Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults

Jazz wins first-ever Odyssey Award
- Jazz, written by Walter Dean Myers, read by James "D-Train" Williams and Vaneese Thomas (Live Oak Media)

Booklist announces prestigious 2007 Top of the List selections - Top of the List: The Best of Editors' Choice (Jan 2008)
- Audio: The Tin Roof Blowdown, written by James Lee Burke, read by Will Patton (Simon & Schuster)

2007 Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults

Booklist Announces Prestigious 2006 Top of the List selections
- Audio: Anansi Boys, written by Neil Gaiman, read by Lenny Henry (Harper)


For Children


For Young Adults/Teens


ALSC/Booklist/YALSA Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production

- Given to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults available in English in the United States

Odyssey Award - (Debuted January 2008 at the ALA Midwinter Meeting)


For Adults


LISTEN™ Promotional Materials from ALA, available from the ALA Online Store

LISTEN™ Logo (EPS file) - Available for use on promotional items only, not for resale. Create your own posters and bookmarks with this LISTEN logo based on our new line of LISTEN Posters. Great for highlighting music, audiobooks, or storytime. See License Agreement.

LISTEN™ Poster - Cedric the Entertainer with the audiobook for Charlotte's Web

LISTEN™ Poster - Los Lonely Boys and LISTEN Bookmark - Los Lonely Boys with the audiobook for The Tao of Willie, the CD for Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, and the CD All That I Am by Santana

LISTEN™ CD Visor

LISTEN™ Travel Mug


February 2008


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