New audiobooks released for MEET THE AUSTINS, A RING OF ENDLESS LIGHT, others in Austins series

Dear Ones,

Audiobook lovers, rejoice! New audio editions of Madeleine’s Austin Family Chronicles series are out in the world, through Penguin Random House Audio. These make a great listen for middle-grade or YA readers (or any of us who wished we were Austins).

The five books in the Austin Family series follow Vicky Austin as she navigates growing up. Incredibly, the voice actor in this new edition captures this progression: listen to Jorjeana Marie’s talents yourself in previews of the first and final books: Meet the Austins and Troubling a Star. (Pretty cool, right?)

Madeleine L’Engle, circa 1984. Courtesy of Sea World San Diego, by Eva C. Ewing.

Fun fact: Did you know that we celebrated new additions to the series for more than 30 years? Madeleine first published Meet the Austins in 1960, followed by The Moon By Night in ‘63, and The Young Unicorns in ‘68. It wasn’t until 1980 that Newbery Honor book A Ring of Endless Light landed on the scene. Troubling a Star completed the series in 1994.

Happy listening,

— Erin F. Wasinger, for madeleinelengle.com.

P.S. — And don’t miss audiobooks from the Time Quintet — read by Madeleine herself! Click here for those.

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Hear Madeleine read A WRINKLE IN TIME, A WIND IN THE DOOR, and A SWIFTLY TILTING PLANET

In the Cathedral Library, circa 1980.

Dear Ones,

Listening to Madeleine L’Engle read A Wrinkle in Time is nothing short of captivating.

Hear for yourself: It was a dark and stormy night, she begins, with not an ounce of sentimentality. Hooking the listener with her passionate cadence in this opening scene, the audio narration continues: In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind. When Meg shakes, I shook, sensing the storm that opens A Wrinkle in Time.

Listening to the audio in the author’s voice is a gift, available now thanks to restored recordings Penguin Random House Audio. Penguin Listening Library’s versions come from recordings done from 1993 to 1996 of A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Sample and purchase the recordings here:

A Wrinkle in Time, or listen on Audible;

A Wind in the Door, or listen on Audible;

A Swiftly Tilting Planet, or listen on Audible.

Happy listening!

— Erin F. Wasinger, for madeleinelengle.com.

 

 

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