

Liesl & Po
Author: Lauren Oliver
Narrator: Jim Dale
Unabridged: 5 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 10/04/2011
Categories: Children's Fiction, Fantasy Stories, Children's Social Themes
Author: Lauren Oliver
Narrator: Jim Dale
Unabridged: 5 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 10/04/2011
Categories: Children's Fiction, Fantasy Stories, Children's Social Themes
Lauren Oliver is the cofounder of media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, where she serves as the President of Production. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the YA novels Replica, Vanishing Girls, Panic, and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. The film rights to both Replica and Lauren's bestselling first novel, Before I Fall, were acquired by Awesomeness Films. Before I Fall was adapted into a major motion picture starring Zoey Deutch. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, garnering a wide release from Open Road Films that year.Oliver is a 2012 E. B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers and The Curiosity House series, co-written with H.C. Chester. She has written one novel for adults, Rooms.Oliver co-founded Glasstown Entertainment with poet and author Lexa Hillyer. Since 2010, the company has developed and sold more than fifty-five novels for adults, young adults, and middle-grade readers. Some of its recent titles include the New York Times bestseller Everless, by Sara Holland; the critically acclaimed Bonfire, authored by the actress Krysten Ritter; and The Hunger by Alma Katsu, which received multiple starred reviews and was praised by Stephen King as “disturbing, hard to put down” and “not recommended…after dark.” Oliver is a narrative consultant for Illumination Entertainment and is writing features and TV shows for a number of production companies and studios.Oliver received an academic scholarship to the University of Chicago, where she was elected Phi Beta Kappa. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University.www.laurenoliverbooks.com.
As ""Best Children's Narrator,"" Jim Dale has won a record seven Audie Awards, including ""Audio Book of the Year 2004,"" a Grammy® Award and four Grammy® nominations. As an actor he has won a Tony® Award, five Tony® nominations, four Drama Desk Awards, and four Outer Critics Awards. As a lyric writer, he received an Oscar® nomination for writing the song ""Georgy Girl.""
Every once in awhile, a children's book comes along that whisks you away to another world--and if you're very lucky, at the end of the story, it's one that also illuminates your own. Liesl & Po extends a delightful invitation to wizardry and adventure, but it’s also a gentle and poignant rumination......more
A truly magical story! Liesl & Po will open your heart and make you reminisce on your childhood days when you believed in magic and when anything was possible. The first thing I noticed and fell in love with in this book was the wonderful illustrations inside it's pages: Also, I was pleasantly surpris......more
I originally gave this 4 stars but changed it after I did some thinking. I definitely wanted this book to be at least 4 stars and even convinced myself at certain points that it was far better than I actually found it to be. I have nothing against children's books - and I do actually mean childre......more
If you don't have this on your to read list, put in not there right now. Ahem. Come around, everyone, and join me and my cat in this amazing review of a truly amazing book. [image error] Such a peaceful scene........my cat and me. I know that I don't write many five-star reviews, or even give out ma......more
Coincidences; mix-ups; harmless mistakes and switches. And so a story is born. I usually do not read children's books, but when my good friend, Wendy, told me about it, I knew I couldn't resist. And I'm so glad I didn't. This book has that unputdownable quality to it. Lauren Oliver, this......more