![]() Especially if we’re going to be home together for a few weeks or months now, it’s good to have something to discuss with your teen. With your teenager you spend a lot of time in the car and audiobooks are a great way to discuss literature together. Which is good because as a family, you’re often listening together. There’s just so many ways that it’s an amazing production, and one that’s for both teens and adults, in my opinion. It lets you hear the cultural background of the characters. It’s historical fiction, it includes those little cues of music because music is a strong component of the book. As an adult, I loved it just as much as I think a teen would. It also is one of those crossover titles. Mary: To me, Lovely War is one of those really strong representations of a multi-voiced production. The print book has had absolutely rave reviews what do you like about the audiobook? Let’s talk move on to the next audiobook that might appeal to teenagers. What many of them say is that having an image as well as words on a page really helps them round out the sound of the book because they can see it. I’ve done interviews over the years with the producers and narrators of books that have won the Odyssey Award, and many of them, oddly enough, are from books that have strong illustrations or graphic content. Another one is New Kid, which won the Newbery Medal this year. There’s also a couple of other graphic novels/memoirs that have been turned into audiobooks with a full cast. A youth listener will strongly identify with those youth voices. One thing that’s also really appealing is that there are children’s voices doing children’s parts. ![]() The author worked with Scholastic Audio to recreate the book so that you could ‘hear’ the images with the full cast. It won the Odyssey Award, which is given by the American Library Association for the best audiobook for children and teens-and it was originally a graphic memoir. Moving on to our winner this year, Hey, Kiddo is an amazing book. “Especially if we’re going to be home together for a few weeks or months now, it’s good to have something to discuss with your teen.” 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. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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