Posts Tagged ‘audio’

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Dr. Seuss!

The end of April is nigh, but there’s still time to celebrate National Poetry Month! If you haven’t had time to celebrate, or you just plum forgot, we have some offerings from one particular poet/author/illustrator that is near and dear to many hearts… and that person is Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss! Listening Library has [...]

Celebrate Earth Day with these eco-friendly listens!

Welcome back from the weekend, and happy Earth Day! Before you run outside to enjoy the sunshine, and celebrate environmental protection, here are a few audiobooks that will get you thinking about the beauty (and occasional terror) of nature. You can listen on a walk in the woods, a roll in the grass, or however [...]

Trivia: When Audiobooks Meet the Oscars!

With the 85th Academy Awards coming up on Sunday, we thought it would be fun to take a look at some audiobooks and their Oscar counterparts… How do they stack up? Read on for some little-known trivia about Oscars and audiobooks!

12 Days of Listening, Day Three: NOT for the Faint of Heart

It doesn’t have to be Halloween for you to get the heebie jeebies—these audiobooks can deliver the screams, gasps, chills, and thrills all year round.

12 Days of Listening, Day One: For the Sleuth

Do you find yourself trying to decode secret messages? Investigating mysterious footprints? Stealthily trailing a suspect? If you do these things, or wish you could, Listening Library has a wealth of titles to satisfy the budding Nancy Drew or Sherlock Holmes.

THRAWN TRILOGY Books 2 & 3 will be available UNABRIDGED for the first time in June 2012

Thanks to outspoken response from Star Wars fans worldwide, Random House Audio will produce new unabridged recordings of books two and three in Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, DARK FORCE RISING and THE LAST COMMAND.

Stop by the Random House Audio Tent at the Boston Book Festival

Random House Audio will be making its first appearance at the Boston Book Festival on October 15, delighting attendees with activities, games, and giveaways!

So You Think You’re a Narrator!

Yes, I’m clever, I know–I played off the television series, So You Think You Can Dance.
Anyway, every day I hear from people who think they can do voice-over work. So test your skills! Drop by Random House Audio booth #1515 at Comic-Con San Diego from July 21-24 and test your skills. Pick up a mini [...]

Author Cornelia Funke and narrator Elliot Hill on tour for RECKLESS

Join Cornelia and special guests Lionel Wigram and Elliot Hill LIVE Tuesday, September 14th at 1:30 pm EST for the worldwide launch of Reckless, featuring a special musical performance by Adam Watts. Watch live at .

The Making of a Community Sourced Audiobook

At this year’s American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, DC, Random House Audio, OverDrive and First Book partnered to produce a “community-sourced” audiobook of L. Frank Baum’s classic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz