YA Titles Rule Among 2009 Audie Award Winners
Gaiman's <em>Graveyard Book</em>, Meyer's <em>Curse of the Blue Tattoo</em> stand out
Raya Kuzyk -- Library Journal, 06/02/2009
- The Graveyard Book is Audiobook of the Year
- Curse of the Blue Tattoo gets three Audies
- Several Audie winners also LJ Best Audiobooks of 2008
The Audio Publishers Association’s (APA) Audie Award winners were announced Friday night at a gala hosted by actor Tony Roberts and held at the New-York Historical Society on Central Park West. Of the record 1000 entries submitted for consideration this year, 28 titles in 31 different categories were selected.
A thrice-nominated YA fantasy title, The Graveyard Book (Recorded Books/HarperAudio), won in the categories of Audiobook of the Year and Children’s Titles for Ages 8–10; author/narrator Neil Gaiman blogged and Twittered throughout the ceremony, documenting his experience from beginning to end.
Another YA title, L.A. Meyer’s Curse of the Blue Tattoo (Listen & Live Audio), read by Katherine Kellgren, won in the greatest number of categories: Solo Narration–Female, Teens, and Distinguished Achievement in Production, a new category this year.
Three of the winners also were LJ Best Audiobooks of 2008: Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’s The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Books on Tape/Random House Audio), Thomas L. Friedman’s Hot Flat, and Crowded (Macmillan Audio/BBC Audiobooks America), and David Sedaris’s When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hachette Audio).
Visit the APA's Audies page for the complete list of winners and to hear sound clips.
