Does your library offer these winning audiobooks?

Have you heard? The American Library Association’s Odyssey Award committee has named two Listening Library titles as 2022 Odyssey Honors!

Watch spoken word poet Jasmine Mans, author of Black Girl, Call Home and Pulitzer-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, author of My Broken Language, discuss their writing, the power of the spoken word and their experiences narrating their own audiobooks.

Watch now and learn more about audiobooks in this special interview that takes you behind the scenes!

Discover how both author and narrator found their own unexpected creative paths, and what brought them together in the studio.

Meet artist and Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet, who illustrated the audiobook cover for the new production of E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web, narrated by Meryl Streep and a full cast!

Tony Kushner’s award-winning play in two parts, Angels in America, is now available as an audiobook production starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane.

Available as an audiobook for the first time on May 14, narrated by the full cast of the National Theatre’s 2018 Tony Award®‒winning Broadway revival.

VIDEO: Award-winning narrator Scott Brick discusses what it’s like to narrate some of the most beloved and iconic characters from the blockbuster series we love!

“Telling stories—and listening to them—are part of our human DNA. . . “

Author Traci Chee describes how audiobook narrator Kim Mai Guest adds her own magic to her Sea of Ink and Gold series and why listening is such a treat!

“. . . there’s something deeply gratifying about receiving the Odyssey Award because it’s bestowed by you—librarians and educators, the highest arbiters of quality in the publishing industry.”