Press Gang Audio
The astounding educators of the Breakwater School are leading their students to piracy! With Scott Nash’s chapter book, The High-Skies Adventures of Blue Jay the Pirate (Candlewick Press) as their piratical press gang, students will be performing a “flash mob” performance of a chapter from the swashbuckling tale. To give the performance the framework and mast of Nash’s written word, Curious City partnered with audiobook producer William Dufris of Mind’s Eye Productions to record Breakwater students reading and acting pieces from the chapter. ...
Read MoreAll But the Kitchen SYNC
Curious City is selecting the new titles for the fourth summer of FREE audiobook downloads from SYNC YA Literature Into Your Earphones. So many tremendous listens to choose from! We are also awash in colorful design work from Marty Braun Design as we get materials ready for our publisher partners at ALA Midwinter. Share...
Read MoreArmored Bears and MP3’s: Curious City Blogging for IRA
Delighted to have been asked to write about my audiobook evangelism for the International Reading Association’s ENGAGE Blog. “Why do I devote each summer to facilitating the experience of listening to young adult audiobooks through the SYNC program? Because audiobooks nearly ruined my summer wedding. True, my evangelism for Listening Library’s production of Philip Pullman’s THE GOLDEN COMPASS was renowned, but the bride should not have to tromp outside to locate her mother alone and wide-eyed in a parked car. A worried rap on the window (was she...
Read MoreSYNC YA Lit Into Your Earphones
Why not listen to lit? Curious City is proud to have partnered with AudioFile Magazine to create and manage SYNC, an audience building literacy project for Young Adult and Classic/Required Reading audiobooks. We have not only built a list of 20 FREE audiobooks that will be available in the Summer of 2012, but have created a complete promotional tool kit to allow librarians, educators, literacy folks, and bloggers to spread the good news to teens and other listeners. SYNC YA Literature into Your Earphones 2 Free Audiobook Downloads Each Week June 14 – August 22,...
Read MoreJust Read
Every book that is handed to me by publishers and creators is a challenge. Each book challenges me to imagine the audience, the slice of story that will draw that audience to the book, the way to trumpet that slice, and how and when. This is work I adore, but it does take away a bit of the delicious abandon of the READ. I thank my mighty book group for the permission and abandon to devour a YA novel with no thought towards its marketing. This month, I have to also thank Tim Ditlow of Brilliance Audio who upon learning at ALA that I had yet read or listened to The Sky is Everywhere...
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