Say, “Love, Love, Bark!”
We just launched a giveaway of our new kids’ audiobook, Bash and Lucy Say, “Love, Love, Bark!” which is read by tweens, teens, a few adults and a Ukrainian grandmother. It also features the bark of Hudson, our golden retriever, who appears as a character in the book and audiobook.
Here’s the LibraryThing link for entering the giveaway, which ends March 25, at which point the winners will be chosen.
About the audiobook readers:
Mateo Tennyson Taylor: (Bash, James, Matthew)
We were thrilled that the talented Mateo Taylor joined this project to read some of the main character’s lines: Bash, Matthew and James.
Mateo Tennyson Taylor is an award-winning actor based in Portland, Oregon. At age 6, Mateo made his professional acting debut at Portland’s Winningstad Theatre as Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol. Mateo has played Gavroche in Les Miserables and has done several films in Oregon, Washington and California. At age 8, Mateo became brand ambassador for a Silicon Valley tech company, filming numerous industrials. He’s done commercial and theatrical voice-over work, including two campaigns for a national retail store and as the voice of Chase from Paw Patrol for its video game release.
Avery Christ (Adam, Paula, Rasheed, children’s group voices)
Avery has performed in numerous theatrical productions. Some of their recent roles include Wolf in Into the Woods, Underling in Drowsy Chaperone Jr the Musical,Teen Fiona in Shrek Jr the Musical, and Regina in Rock of Ages Jr the Musical. They have been singing and playing piano for years and were very excited to try voice acting for the first time in Bash and Lucy Say, “Love, Love, Bark!”
Sunny Christ (Tristan, Chapter Titles, children’s group voices)
Sunny has performed in a number of plays, including Alice in Alice in Wonderland, Derrick McCreedy in Nancy Drew and the Case of the Missing Letter, Milky White in Into the Woods, and Ensemble in The Drowsy Chaperone Jr. the Musical. She has also taken piano, singing, and dancing lessons. Sunny was very excited to be performing in her first audiobook!
Ari Harris (Mayor Ally)
Ari Harris is a Portland native with a passion for creative expression. She has an AAS of Music Performance and Technology from Clackamas Community College, decades of experience teaching children under the age of 6, and a lifelong love of dancing, gardening, and painting. Ari and her husband, Peter LeClair, co-own and operate Robinwood Music Studio and perform around the Portland area as a folk duo called moongate. She lives in West Linn, OR with her husband, two daughters, and two cats.
Tate Noble (Coach, random characters with various accents, audiobook co-editor)
If we needed an accent, we asked Tate to do the reading. If we needed some comedy, Tate was our man. He conquered pretty much any part we threw his way!
Tate is an aspiring voice actor who has been doing impressions his entire life. He has been involved with multiple theatre productions since he was very young, and fell in love with acting as a whole. With this as his first venture into voice acting, he hopes to practice and further develop his skills in the future. He helped edit the audiobook.
Vera Moroz (Assistant Mayor Vera, Bash’s Ukrainian Grandma)
Vera grew up in Soviet-occupied Ukraine, in the village of Cherkasy, where she was born in 1942. She embodies strength, goodness, kindness, and intelligence–just like the Vera in Bash and Lucy Say, “Love, Love, Bark.”
When Vera turned six, her mother convinced the local teacher to let Vera attend school, in part because the bright young girl demanded it. Conditions were dismal. “The school was half-broken, only one big room. We had one long table and there was fourteen children, different ages,” said Vera.
Vera, a grandmother, now studies English, sells home-made food, and babysits to raise money for Ukrainians hurt by conflict.
Hudson, age 13, is a character in Bash and Lucy Say, “Love, Love, Bark!” and also provides a bark-over in the audiobook. He’s now struggling with cancer, but amazes us with his resilience, optimism and strength. If he falls down, no problem! He just gets back up and keeps going.
Again, click HERE to enter the Bash and Lucy Say, “Love, Love, Bark!” audiobook giveaway.