AudioSynced Round Up -- Welcome to May!

Welcome to the third edition of AudioSynced, a monthly round up of all things audio. If you posted a review or any audiobook thoughts during the month of April, share them here and I'll post them. Didn't get a chance to think about audiobooks in April? AudioSynced will be back at Abby (the) Librarian next month!

Before diving into this month's reviews, here's a little audio news:

• Want the latest on your favorite audiobook publishers? Get on Twitter. You can follow @RecordedBooks, @BBCAudiobooks, @FullCast, @LLaudiobooks, @Audiobooknews, and @SpringBrookAud
  
• Spearheaded by Springbrook, here's a place to connect to all things audiobook on Facebook, too.
• Betsy at Fuse#8 just wrapped up her Top 100 Children's Novels poll here, and now, it's time for YOUR vote on the top 20 Children's Audiobooks. You have until May 30 to enter, and all those who submit their top 10 will be entered to win a grand prize. Sweet deal!
• News from the library scene: Overdrive's created a FREE app that allows you to wirelessly download audiobooks from your library on to your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. This will make listening to them even easier, guys!

Now on to a collection of reviews. Let's start with children's and young adult books. This month we got a ton of classics -- how fun to relive them. Not only that, but how cool the synergy that nearly all the children's reviews, which are the bulk of this month's audiosynced, are the classics?:

• Abby has been revisiting some childhood classics and she brings us reviews of Dear Mr. Henshaw and The Last Holiday Concert.

• Mary Ann at Great Kids Books brings us a children's mystery with her review of The Brixton Brothers: The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity. May be a good one for those Hardy Boys fans!

• Jess Kennedy at Traveling Classics offers us a few goodies this month. Check out her blog for a handful of audio reviews (including Peter Pan and How to Train Your Dragon) and a few other cool features about narrators themselves.

• Mel at Mel's Books and Info offered up three reviews of teen lit this month, Carrie Ryan's Dead-Tossed Waves, Cynthia Leitich Smith's Tantalize, and Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan.

• Jen at Nerd Girl Talking brings us two reviews for the price of one: Agatha Christie's The Big Four and Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventure in Wonderland.

• Playing By the Book reviewed an old classic - Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods.

• Lee at Reading with My Ears brings us a month of audio reviews you shouldn't miss. You can check them all out on the blog. Highlights include the childhood classics Betsy Tacy and A Little Princess.
  

And now for our adult reviews -- both of the fiction and non-fiction variety:

• Carin brings us a review of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress. I'm getting the feeling I need to listen to this one stat!

• Carin was on a roll this month, as she also sent us a review on April 1 of Sarah Vowell's A Partly Cloudy Patriot. And if that's not enough, she's also slipped in a review of Jill Bolte Taylor's My Stroke of Insight and Elizabeth McCracken's An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination.
  

• Right here, we brought you a review of Sherman Alexie's War Dances and Harlan Coben's Hold Tight.