Well! This is nice. The ALA Youth Media Awards were given this morning–a big batch of medals that includes the Caldecotts and Newberys (Newberries?).
So I eventually emerge from my bedroom this morning to discover a bunch of congratulatory emails, because the audio production of The True Meaning of Smekday (read by Bahni Turpin) has won the 2011 Odyssey award for best audiobook produced for children or young adults. Which was a complete surprise. That's not to slight the production or Ms. Turpin, but I just didn't go to bed last night hoping the ALA Santa might bring me something in the morning. It hadn't occurred to me that the audiobook of Smekday was in the running.
I'd have a celebratory drink, but it's only two in the afternoon here.
Thanks to Bahni Turpin and producer Dan Musselman at Listening Library!
19 comments:
It's five o'clock somewhere. Go for it. Congrats!
Congratulations, Adam! I watched the announcements live and was also surprised to see this win--I didn't know there was an audiobook of Smekday! I can't wait to listen to it--one of my favorite books ever.
Many congratulations. Tell you what, I'll have a drink for you!
Mazel tov, Adam Rex!
UNEXPECTED awards = double the fun.
Congrats!
Congratulations anyway Adam! I'm so glad it won! Actually I would have liked SMEKDAY to win the year it was in the running -- that would have been my first choice, but still, COOL about the audiobook!
Cheering here in Chicago!
Thank you one and all!
Yeah that was a surprise! A great one! It never occurred to me that books published in previous years would come up in this category, so very fun. Congratulations!
Well, the audiobook WAS produced in 2010. Took a couple years to get audio producers interested.
Very cool! Congrats!
Congrats Adam! That's exciting news!
Congrats Adam! I love Smekday, I'll have to check out the audio book!
Congratulations! And (no joke) I keep looking for an announcement: "Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture"!
Well here's another congratulatory blog comment! It's well deserved. They did a really nice production of Smekday.
Congratulations, and excellent timing! It was perfect for the drive from Knoxville, TN, to Wilmington, NC. I'm really enjoying it.
I'm still traveling and still spreading the good news of Adam Rex wherever I go! Keep up the good work!
Your peripatetic fan,
Christine
Just finished listening to it and I really enjoyed it. Congratulations to you and production team. It is well deserved.
Thanks Vnod, Angie, Arrolyn, Mongo, Phil, Anonymous, and Michael!
Good job on winning the award!! I loved reading Smekday! IT WAS SOOO GOOD I AM DOING A book report on it!!! Can I have some fun facts to tell my class?
Thanks, Kiana!
Well...you can tell your class that the Boov are named after a physicist in Philadelphia named Bhuvnesh Jain. Everyone calls him Bhuv, and I liked the sound of that.
You can tell them that Captain Smek used to be named something else entirely, but then I discovered that his name was a bad word. So I changed it.
And you can tell them that the koobish started out as a tattoo:
http://adamrex.blogspot.com/2010/04/where-koobish-come-from.html
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