Celebrate the spoken word at the 2022 Odyssey Award Presentation featuring samplings from the 2022 winners. The Odyssey Award is presented annually to the best audiobook production for youth and co-administered by YALSA and ALSC and is sponsored by Booklist magazine.
Join ALSC, YALSA, and Booklist for the 2022 Odyssey Awards! Celebrating its fifteenth year, this year's award will be presented to two winners: “Boogie Boogie, Y'all,” written and narrated by C. G. Esperanza, produced by Almeda Beynon, and published by HarperAudio; and "When You Look Like Us,” written by Pamela N. Harris, narrated by Preston Butler III, produced by Almeda Beynon, and published by HarperAudio. We'll also hear from the teams behind Honor-winning titles "Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah," written by Laurie Ann Thompson, narrated by Adjoa Andoh, produced Aaron Blank, and published by Listening Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group; “I Talk Like a River,” written and narrated by Jordan Scott and produced by Erick Black with Dreamscape Media; and “Perfectly Parvin,” written by Olivia Abtahi, narrated by Mitra Jouhari, produced by Sarah Jaffe, and published by Listening Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House Audio.
