ALSC names 2001 Notable Children's Recordings

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ALA News Release


For Immediate Release


January 2001

ALSC names 2001 Notable Children’s Recordings

(Washington D.C.) -- The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has named its list of Notable Children’s Recordings for 2001.

The recordings are: "Bud, Not Buddy," (Listening Library, an imprint of The Random House Audio Publishing Group); "Charlie Parker Played Be Bop!" (Live Oak Media); "Daddy-Long-Legs," (Recorded Books, LLC); "Dance On A Moonbeam: a Collection of Songs and Poems," (Telarc); "Duke Ellington," (Weston Woods); "Eleanor," (Recorded Books, LLC); "The Folk Keeper," (Listening Library, an imprint of The Random House Audio Publishing Group); "Freddy the Pilot" (Recorded Books, LLC); "George Washington’s Mother," (Weston Woods); "The Great Turkey Walk," (Recorded Books LLC); "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," (Listening Library, an imprint of The Random House Audio Publishing Group); "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," (Listening Library, an imprint of The Random House Audio Publishing Group); "Howliday Inn," (Listening Library, an imprint of The Random House Audio Publishing Group); "I Was A Sixth Grade Alien," (Listening Library, an imprint of The Random House Audio Publishing Group); "Kit’s Wilderness," (Listening Library, an imprint of The Random House Audio Publishing Group); "Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse," (Live Oak Media); "Matilda Bone," (Listening Library, an imprint of The Random House Audio Publishing Group); "Mr. Popper’s Penguins," (Recorded Books, LLC); "Music of the American Colonies," (Enslow Publishing, Inc.); "Nory Ryan’s Song," (Listening Library, an imprint of The Random House Audio Publishing Group); "Ouch!" (Live Oak Media); "Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story," (Live Oak Media); "Rhythm in My Shoes," (Rounder Records); "Snow," (Live Oak Media); "Spider Sparrow," (Listening Library, an imprint of The Random House Audio Publishing Group); "Still the Same Me," (Rounder Records); "The Subtle Knife," (Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group); "The Trolls," (Listening Library, an imprint of The Random House Audio Publishing Group); "Water Torture, the Barking Mouse and Other Tales of Wonder," (Woodside Avenue Music Productions; Distributed by Rounder Kids); "When Zachary Beaver Came to Town," (Listening Library, an imprint of The Random House Audio Publishing Group); "Wiley and the Hairy Man: Adapted from an American Folktale," (Live Oak Media); "A Year Down Yonder," (Listening Library, an imprint of The Random House Audio Publishing Group); "Yo! Yes?" (Weston Woods).

An annotated list can be found on the
ALSC Web site.

Members of the 2001 Notable Children’s Recordings Committee are: Margie Stern, Chair, Delaware County (Penn.) Library System; Karen Allen, Greenville County (S.C.) Library System; Bruce Farrar, Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn.; Patricia Jefferson, Johnson Elementary School, Texas; Vivian Landfair, Ortona (Fla.) Elementary School; Diane Person (N.Y.); Louise Sherman, Anna C. Scott School (N.J.); Veronica Stevenson-Moudamane, Mount Vernon (N.Y.) Public Library.