Awards

Talking Book Productions' superior production standards have helped many of its clients earn awards. Below are some of the most recent.

Talking Book Productions Helps BBC Audiobooks America Win Prestigious Awards

TBP is honored to announce that the audio production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, by Alex Haley, narrated by Avery Brooks, produced and directed by TBP, and published by BBC Audiobooks America, received the 2008 Audie® Award in the non-fiction category. The Audie® Awards, presented by the Audio Publishers Association (APA), are the only awards covering audiobooks, recognizing the best titles across many different genres and celebrating industry trailblazers. "It's an honor to be recognized among so many outstanding audiobooks," said Lou Gutierrez, Director, Talking Book Productions. "The Audies® are the highest honor you can receive in this industry, and we couldn't be more excited." For a complete list of winners, visit www.theaudies.com. You can read a review of Roots from AudioFile Magazine, and listen to an audio clip of Avery Brooks' narration.

Roots: The Saga of an American Family also received a Benjamin Franklin Award™ from The Independent Book Publishers Association (PMA), recognizing excellence in independent publishing.

2008 Audie Award Nominations

Talking Book Productions Awarded Online Educational Software Development Grant

TBP has won a U.S. Department of Education National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) grant for the research and development of the Universal eLearner platform. The three-year grant will utilize and expand content from Pearson Digital Learning’s KnowledgeBox®, a standards-based digital learning system. This award-winning content will be augmented with additional text and audio, making the lessons accessible to a larger universe of learners, including English language learners and learning disabled, blind/low vision, and hearing impaired students.

"We are honored to be included in this important research," said Jack Lynch, President of Pearson Digital Learning. "Pearson believes in the importance of universal accessibility, and we are pleased to contribute to research that will help better understand how to meet the diverse needs of today's classrooms."

The Universal e-Learner is an online supplemental learning tool that offers audio-described video content, additional audio content, additional enhanced text, and text at lower reading levels. The e-Learner also provides a fully accessible organizer for school schedules. The model seeks to include the maximum number of students in each learning activity.

2007 Audiophile Golden Earphone Awards

The Keep
by Jennifer Egan
Narrated by Jeff Gurner, Geneva Carr, Unabridged, Dec 06/Jan 07
Audio Partners
BBC Audiobooks America

The Book of Fate
by Brad Meltzer
Narrated by Scott Brick, Unabridged, Dec 06/ Jan 07
Hachette Audio
Recorded Books

The Power Broker
by Stephen Frey
Narrated by Holter Graham, Unabridged, Feb/Mar 07
Audio Partners
BBC Audiobooks America

Stripped
by Brian Freeman
Narrated by Joe Barrett, Unabridged, Feb/Mar 07
Blackstone Audiobooks

All Mortal Flesh
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Narrated by Suzanne Toren, Unabridged, Apr/May 07
BBC Audiobooks America

The Hoax
by Clifford Irving
Narrated by Joe Barrett, Unabridged, Apr/May 07
Blackstone Audiobooks

Hollywood Station
by Joseph Wambaugh
Narrated by Adam Grupper, Unabridged, Apr/May 07
Hachette Audio

Eggs
by Jerry Spinelli
Narrated by Suzanne Toren, Cassandra Morris, Aug/Sept 07
Hachette Audio

2007 Audie Award Nominations

The Great Deluge
by Douglas Brinkley
Harper Audio

Las Cinco Personas Que Encontraras en el Cielo
by Mitch Albom
Narrated by Francisco Rivela
Hyperion Audio

2006 Audie Award Nominations

The Last Kingdom
by Bernard Cornwell
Narrated by Tom Sellwood
Harper Collins
BBC Audiobooks America

One Dangerous Lady
by Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat
Blackstone Audiobooks

Talking Book Productions Helps Garner 2005 Audie Award

The winner of the 2005 Audie Award in the category of Best Fiction, Unabridged, is The Darling, written by Russell Banks, read by Mary Beth Hurt, and published by BBC Audiobooks America. Talking Book Productions produced, directed, engineered, edited, and mastered the audiobook.

Since 1996, the Audio Publishers Association (APA) has hosted the Audies®, recognizing excellence in audio publishing. The Audies® honor the best titles in audio publishing in the categories for Audiobook of the Year, Fiction (Abridged and Unabridged), Non-Fiction (Abridged and Unabridged), Classics, Business Informational/Educational, Children's Titles, Humor, Poetry, Audio Drama, Package Design, and many more.