The Notable Children’s Recordings Committee is pleased to announce the final set of public discussion meetings. The NCR committee’s charge is to develop a list of the most notable recordings of audiobooks and music of interest for children ages 0-14 produced in 2022. The committee has met two previous times for public discussion meetings for the 2023 list. The final public discussions will take place on Monday, January 16th, Thursday, January 19th, and Tuesday, January 24th.
The following recordings of books – some new and some older books with new productions of audiobooks – as well as newly produced children’s music titles will be discussed:
Audiobooks
| Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? | Leslie Connor | Harper Audio |
| Attack of the Black Rectangles | Amy Sarig King | Scholastic Audio |
| Boys Will Be Human | Justin Baldoni | Harper Audio |
| Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot | Dav Pilkey | Scholastic Audio |
| Children of the Quicksands | Efua Traoré | Scholastic Audio |
| Coraline | Gaiman, Neil | Harper Audio |
| Daughter of the White Rose | Diane Zahler | Live Oak |
| Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | Harper Audio |
| Hazel Hill is Gonna Win This One | Maggie Horne | Harper Audio |
| I have a Superpower | Stephan Curry | Penguin Random House |
| I Survived the Wellington Avalanche, 1910 | Lauren Tarshis | Scholastic Audio |
| In My Neighborhood | Oscar Loubriel | Live Oak Media |
| Maisie Lockwood Adventures #1 Off the Grid | Tess Sharpe | Penguin Random House |
| Nikhil Out Loud | Maulik Pancholy | Harper Audio |
| Shot Clock | Caron Butler | Harper Audio |
| Show Us Who You Are | Elle McNicoll | Penguin Random House |
| Stand Up!: Ten Mighty Women Who Made a Change | Brittney Cooper | Scholastic Audio |
| Standing in the Need of Prayer | Carol Boston Weatherford | Penguin Random House |
| The Mapmakers | Tamzin Merchant | Penguin Random House |
| The Midnighters | Hana Tooke | Penguin Random House |
| The Most Perfect Thing in the Universe | Tricia Springstuff | Live Oak |
| The Nightsilver Promise | Annaliese Avery | Scholastic Audio |
| The Other Side of the River | Alda P. Dobbs | Recorded Books |
| The Peach Rebellion | Wendelin Van Draanen | Penguin Random House |
| The Three Billy Goats Gruff | Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen | Scholastic Audio |
| The Velvet Fox | Catherine Fisher | Recorded Books |
| Tumble | Celia C. Perez | Penguin Random House |
| Vacancy | K.R. Alexander | Scholastic Audio |
| Vampires, Hearts & Other Dead things | Margie Fuston | Simon and Schuster |
| Watercress | Andrea Wang | Weston Woods |
| We Own the Sky | Rodman Philbrick | Scholastic Audio |
| Wednesday: The Forest of Secrets | Ralph Lazar | Scholastic Audio |
| When Grandfather Flew | Patricia MacLachlan | Live Oak Media |
| Winterkill | Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch | Scholastic Audio |
| Wishes | Mượn Thị Văn | Weston Woods |
Music
| Maybe By Next Year | All songs by Paul Reisler |
| Mil Colores | Nathalia Palis & Brian McLaughlin |
| Nursery Rhymes For Kinder Times | Raffi and Lindsay Munroe |
| Sing For The Sea – Little Wild Ocean Friends | Little Wild Songbooks – Claudia Robin Gunn |
| Super Wiggles | The Wiggles: Anthony Field, Lachy Gillespie, Simon Pryce, Tsehay Hawkins and more |
Please register here to watch the discussions:
1st Session: January 16, 5:00 pm EST
2nd Session: January 19, 4:00 pm, EST
3rd Session: January 24, 4:30 pm, EST
Jessica Gillis, chair of the Notable Children’s Recordings Committee, invites you to attend and hear how these books have been transformed in producing an audio version of the printed copy.