Behind the Mic Podcast

Narrator Shayna Small joins AudioFile’s Robin Whitten to discuss her co-narration of Lesa Cline-Ransome’s historical picture book OVERGROUND RAILROAD. Shayna shares why she finds narrating audiobooks for children to be so important and about working on productions full of rich sound effects. Listen and discover a new family favorite. Published by Live Oak Media.

2020 Best Children’s & Family Listening Audiobooks:

BEFORE THE EVER AFTER by Jacqueline Woodson, read by Guy Lockard

KING AND THE DRAGONFLIES by Kacen Callender, read by Ron Butler

OVERGROUND RAILROAD by Lesa Cline-Ransome, read by Shayna Small, Dion Graham, Lesa Cline-Ransome [Note]

¡VAMOS! LET'S GO EAT by Raúl the Third, read by Gary Tiedemann

WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, read by Faysal Ahmed, Barkhad Abdi, Robin Miles, Ifrah Mansour, Bahni Turpin, Hakeemshady Mohamed, Sadeeq Al, Dominic Hoffman, Christine Avila, Dion Graham, and a Full Cast

For the full list of AudioFile’s 2020 Best Audiobooks, visit audiofilemagazine.com

Support for our podcast comes from Oasis Audio, publisher of FRANKENSTEIN, a breathtaking full-cast original audiobook performance of the stage adaptation by A.S. Peterson.