5/28/2023 0 Comments Good audio books![]() ![]() That same phenomenon is occurring now with full cast audiobooks that are made from graphic novels. If you know The Invention of Hugo Cabret, that a big fat book that won the Caldecott Medal in 2008 for its illustrations-how do you change all those illustrations into sound? Years ago, the audiobook of it was incredible. I’m going to talk about this interesting new intersection between audiobooks and graphic novels, because it is a very interesting alignment. The winning title was Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka, which was also a finalist in the multi-voiced performance category. I have a few more questions about resources for parents looking for audiobooks for their kids, but before we get to that, let’s go through the audiobooks for teens that were 2020 Audie Awards finalists. Oh yes, I saw that and was blown away by it. It spells all this out with lesson plans and suggested titles for different age groups. I’d like to direct you to an initiative of the Audio Publishers Association, which is called Sound Learning, available for free. There are so many reasons that audiobooks are amazing. Audiobooks also help if you don’t know how to pronounce a word, or if books have foreign terminology. They’re striving to get there in terms of reading ability, but with audiobooks, they can be on the same page. Struggling readers, meanwhile, can listen to books that their peers are already reading. How do those formats-physical text and audiobook-differ? Gifted readers can find a lot to explore with audiobooks. Or they can read Shakespeare and then listen to Shakespeare. ![]() They can do a lot of literary analysis between those two formats. Gifted readers can look at a graphic memoir like Hey, Kiddo and then listen to the same graphic memoir. ![]() Stepping back a bit, can audiobooks be useful to parents and kids, or parents who are encouraging their kids to read? We’re talking about the best audiobooks for teenagers, books that made the shortlist of the 2020 Audie Awards in the Young Adult category.
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