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Now that the 6th graders are busy reading the nominees for the 2011 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award, we find that the nominees we have in audiobook form are in great demand. We currently have 6 of the 20 nominees in audiobook format and 3 more are coming. (I had to order special plastic cases to protect the CDs since they only came in cardboard boxes.)
While the IMC has some older audiobooks in audio cassette form, the new Caudill nominees are either in CD format or Playaway format. Playaways are a small box that is a complete audio book. The packaging includes earbuds, an extra battery, a lanyard, and a print copy of the book. I have seen several students walking around school listening to a Playaway between classes or in the IMC.