While Black authors and narrators always have a place in my audiobook recommendations for kids, it is important to pause in February to highlight and celebrate the heritage and...

It’s February, and in my neighborhood, the snow is piled high and the forecast is calling for more of the same. So it's definitely time to let audiobooks fly me away...

Romance fans are always rooting for characters who get do-overs—a second chance at happy-ever-after. Life’s a journey, and the things characters learn as they...

Welcome to another nonfiction–fiction audiobook faceoff in which I pair a factual account of a historic event or contemporary issue with a fictional take on the same...

Yes, it’s already February 2021. In spite of not being able to be together with loved ones, meet potential new loved ones in person, touch, or, heaven forbid, kiss,...

That Cupid strikes with an arrow suggests that love is more complicated than it seemed in third grade when I pasted pink cherubs on Valentine lace doilies and savored chalky...

Actor, playwright, voice-over artist, and audiobook narrator Mary Jane Wells admits she’s drawn to a “transformative story.” “I just gravitate toward it,...

In this video, narrator Edoardo Ballerini shares why Jack London's 1909 semiautobiographical novel MARTIN EDEN, recently made into an award-winning Italian feature film...

Chosen by a committee of children’s and teen's librarians, the ALA Youth Media Awards are my favorite awards in children’s literature. Often the audio versions...

After almost a year of COVID and social distancing, some of us are desperately missing family members, while others are suffering from the claustrophobic pressure of constant...

Last year and this year have illuminated the under-appreciated heroism of medical professionals. Thus it gives me great personal joy to suggest these six romance audios with...

Shaun Taylor-Corbett shares his thoughts on narrating THE BRAVE, James Bird's moving audiobook for young listeners, in this video. Twelve-year-old Collin has a form of...