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Listening Library Celebrates Award-Winning Year
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June 1998 - Old Greenwich, CT --- During the recent BookExpo America Conference in Chicago, Listening Library, Inc., which produces quality unabridged audiobooks primarily for children, won two Audie Awards for Best Children's Production and Best Children's Title for Redwall: Book I and Redwall -- Complete Set by Brian Jacques. These were the only two children's awards presented at the third annual event.
The Audie awards are presented by the Audio Publishers Association to honor excellence in audio publishing. Finalists and winners were selected by a committee consisting of 53 judges from a variety of backgrounds within the audiobook industry. The committee evaluated over 400 audiobooks submitted for consideration in almost 25 categories.
It has been a watershed year, artistically and critically, for the 43-year-old company. In addition to the Audie honors, the company also received the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Children's Audiobook for Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park, at this year's BEA conference.
In January, Listening Library commenced the year by receiving nine American Library Notable Recordings for Children Awards. Listening Library titles made up nearly one-third of the 29 titles on the 1998 ALA Notable Recordings list. Redwall and Mick Harte Was Here also topped the list of these ALA Notable Recordings.
Listening Library also garnered critical acclaim for The Boggart and the Monster by Susan Cooper and The Farthest-Away Mountain by Lynne Reid Banks. These two titles, along with Mick Harte Was Here, received Earphone Awards in AudioFile magazine. Elidor by Alan Garner, Redwall and Mick Harte Was Here received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly. Mick Harte Was Here was also recognized with a Listen Up Award in Publishers Weekly, given for the best recordings of the year.
The company's critical success shows no sign of waning in 1998. A Rat's Tale by Tor Seidler was just bestowed with a starred review in Publishers Weekly. The highly anticipated, The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick was recently reviewed in The Providence Journal as "...funny, sad and wonderfully engaging." The Mighty, the Miramax movie, will be premiering in October, 1998 starring Sharon Stone, Gena Rowlands and Elden Henson, the narrator of the audiobook.
In recognition of the company's successful year and the first national Audiobook Month celebration, Listening Library and well-known author Marc Brown, creator of Arthur the Aardvark, have collaborated on a poster that captures the enjoyment of listening to an audiobook. This colorful poster is available free to bookstores and libraries while supplies last. Please contact Nancy Murphy at the above number for more information on how to receive this free poster.
Nancy Murphy
Listing Library, Inc.
800-324-8367
moreinfo@listeninglib.co
http://www.listeninglib.com
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