New audiobooks, kits available at JKPL

The Joeten-Kiyu Public Library has 19 new audiobooks that are now available for borrowing starting yesterday.

Children’s Library associate Erlinda Naputi said yesterday that the new audiobooks or books in CD format, arrived before Christmas.

These new audiobooks are Geronimo Stilton by Geronimo Stilton; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis; The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman; The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo; Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer; Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White; Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt; Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel; Matilda by Roald Dahl; Old Yeller by Fred Gipson; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; Stuart Little by E.B. White; Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne; Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park; The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Arthur & Friends Collection by Marc Brown; and Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

“The audiobooks were actually something that parents and teachers requested in the past so we ordered them. We didn’t order a lot but we did order enough for starters,” Naputi said in an interview.

The audiobooks were bought using a federal grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The library will also make available 14 new kits—books that come with CDs—which arrived with the audiobooks.

These new kits are Miss Nelson has a Field Day, Miss Nelson is Missin, Hansel and Gretel, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall; Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff; Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crocket Johnson; In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming; Is Your Mama a Llama by Deborah Guarino; Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman; It’s Justin Time, Amber Brown by Paula Danziger; Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin; Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble by Cynthia Rylant; The Gingerbread Man by Eric Kimmel; and Corduroy by Don Freeman.

Naputi said the audiobooks and the kits cater to children and young adult readers.

“It’s a great start of the New Year for us, having these books on the floor so people can come and check them out. I know it’s going to be popular because patrons have requested for them,” she told Saipan Tribune.

Naputi added that the JKPL started buying audiobooks for younger readers but will “work our way up to the adults.”

A library card is needed to borrow these audiobooks and kits. For more information, call 235-READ (7323) or 7322.