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Odyssey Honor 2023 Lunch Lady The First Helping

Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s The First Helping (Lunch Lady Books 1 and 2) Named an Odyssey Honor Audiobook January 30, 2023

It’s a great day for children’s audiobooks, and audio adaptations of graphic novels in particular! The American Library Association’s Odyssey Honor Award recognizes excellence in children’s and young adult audiobooks, and this morning the award committee named The First Helping (Lunch Lady Books 1 & 2) by Jarrett J. Krosoczka an Odyssey Honor audiobook. READ MORE

Tags: awards, Family Listening, Full Cast, Full Cast Recording, graphic novels, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Lunch Lady, Odyssey Award, Odyssey Honor

YA Audiobooks for Winter Break Listening

The Best YA Audiobooks for Late Winter Listening January 26, 2023

It’s cold. It’s damp. It’s gray. In short, all the late winter vibes. Fortunately, if you’re a YA fiction-loving book nerd with a case of the cold weather blues, you don’t need to leave hibernation mode to escape into the audiobooks taking the book-o-sphere by storm. READ MORE

Tags: BIPOC authors, Family Listening, fantasy, YA Audiobooks, YA Book Club, YA Fantasy, YA Romance, young adult

On the Podcast: Torrey Maldonado, Pico Iyer, and Faitth Brooks January 17, 2023

In this episode, meet teacher and author Torrey Maldonado, author of Hands, writer Pico Iyer, author of The Half Known Life, and activist, social worker, and writer Faitth Brooks, author of Remember Me Now. READ MORE

Tags: Amplify Black Voices, Faitth Brooks, Family Listening, Pico Iyer, Podcast, read by the author, self-care, This is the Author, Torrey Maldonado

Legacy Listening for Martin Luther King Jr. Day January 12, 2023

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the Day of Service, we’ve gathered a list of audiobooks that commemorate Dr. King’s impact and legacy of nonviolence, community, and recognizing and reforming injustice. READ MORE

Tags: activism, Amplify Black Voices, Day of Service, Family Listening, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, MLK Day 2023, self-care, social justice

Stars & Sounds: Your 2023 Audiobook Horoscope January 4, 2023

Happy New Year, star gazers! 2023 has hardly come in the door and taken off its shoes, but it already looks like this is going to be a major year for nearly every zodiac sign. The theme of this year, it seems, is change: new relationships or changing old ones, new homes, new opportunities, and new random happenstances are coming for us all. READ MORE

Tags: 2023, Astrology, business, Horoscopes, memoir, New Year, New Year New You 2023, self-care, zodiac

All Bodies Are Good Bodies: Audiobooks That Celebrate You January 3, 2023

In a month that seems to center high expectations and a “new year, new you” mentality, we’re here with your gentle reminder that you don’t need a new body to achieve your 2023 goals: you are built perfectly, just as you are. READ MORE

Tags: Body Neutrality, Body Positivity, Family Listening, fitness, self-care, self-care audiobooks, wellness

Kids Audiobooks to Screen: Film and Streaming Adaptations to Watch this Winter

Kids Audiobooks to Hear Before (and After) You Stream the Show December 13, 2022

While our eyes are on this winter’s batch of streaming book-to-movie adaptations for the whole family, our ears are tuned to the audiobook editions that make for exceptional listening leading up to your next watch party. READ MORE

Tags: dr.seuss, Family Listening, film adaptations, His Dark Materials, Jingle Jangle, Matilda, movie adaptations, movie tie-in, The Golden Compass

Hanukkah Audiobooks to Light Up the Season December 5, 2022

This year, Hanukkah begins on the evening of December 18th and continues for eight nights of candle-lit family gatherings, games, the celebration of miracles…and the celebration of miracle-adjacent fried foods (latkes, jelly doughnuts, more latkes). READ MORE

Tags: Eight Nights of Flirting, Family Listening, hanukkah, Holiday 2022, Holidays, Is it Hanukkah Yet?, Picture Books, young adult

Jolly Holiday Audiobooks for Little Listeners

Holiday Audiobooks for Co-listening With Littles November 29, 2022

If you haven’t heard Walter Matthau read How the Grinch Stole Christmas, there’s no season like snow season to cue up the audiobook, gather your own pack of “Whos from Who-ville” (a.k.a the bedtime story crew) and set your frozen heart-o-meter to “thaw.” READ MORE

Tags: A Very Mercy Christmas, Celebrity Narrator, Family Listening, Green Is for Christmas, Holiday 2022, llama llama holiday drama, Picture Books, The Christmas Wish, The Return of the Christmas Witch, This Book Is Not a Present, Twelve Dinging Doorbells, Uni the Unicorn: Reindeer Helper

Listen and Cook: Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Listen & Cook with an American Girl®: Claudie’s Pineapple Upside-Down Cake November 18, 2022

Claudie Wells is growing up at the height of the Harlem Renaissance: it’s 1922, and she’s surrounded by writers and poets, painters and sculptors, actors and dancers, singers and musicians. READ MORE

Tags: American Girl, Amplify Black Voices, Brit Bennett, Family Listening, Listen and Cook, Meet Claudie, Shayna Small, unstoppable girls

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