Profile: Live Oak Media

Last week we visited friends in the beautiful Hudson River Valley. Debra and Arnie Cardillo are the owners of Live Oak Media, known for its amazing and award-winning readalong productions and unabridged audiobooks of first chapter books and middle-grade fiction. No strangers to awards, their production of Jazz written by walter Dean Myers and illustrated by Christopher Myers, won the very first Odyssey Award for excellence in audio production for children.

We snapped a few photos of the offices and warehouse, though they'll soon be outdated becaUSe they're moving into new digs next month!

Here's Debra, Liz and Bobbie.





Pictures of the warehouse.

Check out their website to learn more about their Behind the Scenes Interviews, a great e-newsletter, and my favorites, the Live Oak Music Makers!

Campers we're particularly fond of . . .

on the back of a lovely Airsteam in Christmas, Florida (Nope, I'm not kidding!)

Blue Spring State Park in Florida

Open Books, Open Roads, Journey On

It’s official! We Love Children’s Books is out on the road. Our plan is to work and travel for the next two years. Our mobile home/office is a 30 foot Jayfeather Ultralight trailer, which we’re pulling with a Chevy Tahoe. We hope to see many of our friends in the children’s book industry along the way, and we’ll chronicle many of those visits here.
So if you have a farm, extra long driveway or just want some company, drop us a line.

BTW, our friend Desiree is the ultra-talented graphic designer who created our logo -- isn't it great?! That's our dog, Molly, in the back seat.