[LM_NET] Odyssey Award - Listen up!

[Mary Burkey <mburkey@COLUMBUS.RR.COM>]

There's only one month until the American Library Association names the
winner of the first Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production.
This new award, a joint effort of the Association for Library Service to
Children & the Young Adult Library Services Association, will recognize the
single best audiobook created for listeners ages birth through age eighteen,
along with possible honor titles. The award, on the same tier as the Printz,
Newbery, and Caldecott awards, establishes audiobooks as a true literary
genre. Find out more here
<http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/odysseyaward/Od
ysseyaward.htm> .

 

Do you have time for a Mock Odyssey in the next month? Poll your patrons to
see which 2007 audiobook titles they think deserve the Odyssey Award. Or
share your choices here with the other listserve members. Then log on to the
ALA website <http://www.ala.org/>  Monday January 14th from 8-9 a.m. (EST)
to watch the award press conference and see the announcement live. 

 

The 2008 Odyssey Committee has evaluated 379 audiobooks which total just
short of 2000 hours of listening - an amount of time equal to 50 weeks of
full-time employment! We are still under the headphones, entering the final
stages of listening to the very best in children's and young adult
audiobooks. Be sure to watch for the final selection, and lend your ears to
the sound of great literature! 

 

Mary Burkey

Chair, 2008 Odyssey Award

mburkey@columbus.rr.com

http://audiobooker.blogspot.com/

 


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