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CLACK CLACK! SMACK! by Traci Sorell Read by Zebadiah Nofire Joshua Mouse Ryan Livers Darion Locust Carlos Sorell Levi Killer Nalayah Oosahwe Draylan Bunch Scarlett Chanate Nathan Pritchett River Shade...

LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · 2d

"The dialogue is delivered in the Tsalagi language--carefully contextualized for comprehension--which particularizes this celebration of Cherokee culture" in CLACK, CLACK! SMACK! performed by author @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social & a full cast www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...

AudioFile Audiobook Review: A full cast of Native American performers take young listeners to a Cherokee stickball game. Most of the narrators are Cherokee, like author Traci Sor

WE ARE GRATEFUL OTSALIHELIGA by Traci Sorell Read by Lauren Hummingbird Agalisiga (Choogie) Mackey Ryan Mackey Traci Sorell Tonia Weavel | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine

LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · 4d

Discover no-battery-needed #WonderBook with the #audiobbok #picturebook combination WE ARE GRATEFUL “Cherokee pronunciations are beautifully delivered to help listeners understand the language, while sounds of the forest and the community create ambiance” www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...

AudioFile Audiobook Review: The sounds of crickets, a crackling campfire, and music greet listeners as five narrators share the meaning of the term “otsaliheliga,” a Cherokee wor

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LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · 7d

“A full-cast production adds excitement to this story based on actual royal intrigue and murder in fifteenth-century England. The cast of five enhances the scenes, allowing the listener to hear lively conversations and bustling London streets. ” — Audiofile Magazine

LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · 8d

Narrator Moira Quirk "captures the playfulness, fear, sadness, and first love of a young girl coming into her own" says @ala-booklist.bsky.social of our #FullCast production of DAUGHTER OF THE WHITE ROSE #MiddleGrade www.booklistonline.com/products/976...

LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · 8d

Narrator Moira Quirk "captures the playfulness, fear, sadness, and first love of a young girl coming into her own" says @ala-booklist.bsky.social of our #FullCast production of DAUGHTER OF THE WHITE ROSE #MiddleGrade www.booklistonline.com/products/976...

Japanese American author, actor, and social activist Ken Mochizuki, whose picture book debut, 'Baseball Saved Us,' shone a light on the history of the U.S. government’s Japanese incarceration camps du...

LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · 10d

Listen to our author-read BASEBALL SAVED US in memory of Ken Mochizuki www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Obituary: Ken Mochizuki

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 21d

“Highlighting Kate DiCamillo's wordplay and …Barbara Rosenblat creates an unlikely but likable heroine who remains unruffled even in the face of great danger” Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken on #YotoCard @liveoakmedia.bsky.social #207 www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...

LOUISE THE ADVENTURES OF A CHICKEN by Kate DiCamillo Read by Barbara Rosenblat | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine

AudioFile Audiobook Review: Louise is not your ordinary chicken; longing for adventure, she travels across seas, participates in a circus, and has her fortune told. Barbara Rosen

LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · 17d

What a delight to meet #TribalLibrary staff during #ARSL2025 and learn many are #audiobook fans!

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LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · 20d

We met LOTS of #audiobook fans at #ARSL2025! These three Nebraskan library staffers are longterm supporters of us, #YOTO and #WonderBook and have just received to grant to build an even bigger collecton for local kids!

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 21d

Listen to the robust production of Five Stories from @liveoakmedia.bsky.social #ARSL2025 #207 youtu.be/T93ba5uyddk

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BEFORE SHE WAS HARRIET by Lesa Cline-Ransome Read by SiSi Aisha Johnson January LaVoy Lisa Renee Pitts Bahni Turpin | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine

LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · 21d

Ask the folks at Booth 207 about #WonderBooks and #YOTO cards and players #Listen to BEFORE SHE WAS HARRIET #ARSL2025 www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...

AudioFile Audiobook Review: Listeners travel back through time to explore the life of Harriet Tubman, guided by four African-American narrators. Lisa Renee-Pitts, Bahni Turpin, J

NOTHING by Nicholas Day Read by Fred Berman | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 22d

#Audiobooks too! Nothing John Cage and 4’3” “ This audio production of a picture book about the sounds of ‘nothing’ is a little mind-bending--in the best possible way” @liveoakmedia.bsky.social #ARSL2025 #207 www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...

AudioFile Audiobook Review: Carefully selected ambient sounds combine with Fred Berman's deliberate narration as this audiobook and accompanying picture book tell the story of th

WE ARE GRATEFUL OTSALIHELIGA by Traci Sorell Read by Lauren Hummingbird Agalisiga (Choogie) Mackey Ryan Mackey Traci Sorell Tonia Weavel | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 21d

Discover no-battery-needed #WonderBook with the We are Grateful “Cherokee pronunciations are beautifully delivered help listeners understand the language while sounds of the forest and the community create ambiance” @liveoakmedia.bsky.social #ARSL2025 #207 www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...

AudioFile Audiobook Review: The sounds of crickets, a crackling campfire, and music greet listeners as five narrators share the meaning of the term “otsaliheliga,” a Cherokee wor

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LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · 21d

Meet our fans visiting Booth 207 #ARSL2025

WE ARE STILL HERE! by Traci Sorell Read by Garrett Abel Jacob Cummings Mary Kay Henderson Lauren Hummingbird Don McClellan Ella Mounce Kaitlyn Pinkerton Isobel Shults Oliver Shults Carlos Sorell Tonia...

LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · 22d

Discover the authentic voices in our #audiobook productions for #kids including the full cast performance of We are Still Here by @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social #ARSL2025 Booth 207 www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...

AudioFile Audiobook Review: A full cast of Cherokee, Navajo, Choctaw, and Chickasaw narrators deliver a moving audiobook companion to an informative picture book. Listeners hear

LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · 23d

“Echoes of voices and fragments of poems and speeches meld with recognizable sounds from everyday life, enhancing the narration” by Cherise Booth in a #kids #biography of #MayaAngelou is among #audiobooks on #Yoto www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...

LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · 23d

Come find us at #ARSL2025 Booth 207 and learn about screen-free #audiobooks for littlest readers, including RISE! on #YOTO

LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · 28d

Come see us at #ARSL2025 next week! We can show you #YOTOCards, #WonderBooks and more #audiobook format options for the littest ones at Booth 207

LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · Sep 10

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Made It a ‘Condition’ That New Children’s Book Was Released in Spanish & English "Gloria Estefan, who provides the narration in both the English and Spanish-language editions" #Audiobooks www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

INFINITY AND ME by Kate Hosford Read by Nancy Wu | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine

LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · Sep 10

"Nancy Wu expresses the youth, verve, and mercurial feelings of Uma as she wonders at the number of stars in the huge, cold sky" our #audiobook production of INFINITY AND ME www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...

AudioFile Audiobook Review: Nancy Wu expresses the youth, verve, and mercurial feelings of Uma as she wonders at the number of stars in the huge, cold sky. Gabi Swiatkowska’s ill

Why AI Narrators Will Never Be Able to Tell a Real Human Story

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LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you for your eloquence here Adam Varner lithub.com/why-ai-narra...

I grew up with nary a TV to be seen. My mother’s parking lot come-to-Jesus moment and subsequent Evangelical faith translated to an aversion to He-Man and The Smurfs (an episode featuring Smurfette…

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LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Encourage students to become better listeners and readers through audiobooks. There are many benefits to incorporating audiobooks into the classroom" see #ReadingRockets www.readingrockets.org/topics/educa...

Audiobooks: Ideas for Teachers

Encourage students to become better listeners and readers through audiobooks.

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Audiobooks: Ideas for Teachers

LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · Aug 29

" #audiobooks provide a way to learn the patterns of language and to learn expressions" www.readingrockets.org/topics/educa...

Encourage students to become better listeners and readers through audiobooks.

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LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · Aug 27

“Exposing all students to complicated storytelling...s just one benefit of using #audiobooks in the classroom...research shows there are many other advantages too, including an increase in reading comprehension, motivation and self-confidence” source: www.weareteachers.com/want-to-supp...

10 Ways to Boost Literacy Using Audiobooks in the Classroom

Do you use audiobooks in the classroom? These tips encourage literacy, school to home learning, behavior management, and more.

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LiveOakMedia @liveoakmedia.bsky.social · Aug 25

Pssst...“ #Audiobooks teach critical listening, improve vocabulary, and increase comprehension and appreciation of the written word” www.jstor.org/stable/41406...

Using Audiobooks to Meet the Needs of Adolescent Readers on JSTOR

Gene Wolfson, Using Audiobooks to Meet the Needs of Adolescent Readers, American Secondary Education, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Spring 2008), pp. 105-114

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