B. D. Wong has narrated 9 audiobooks on Listento.it by 16 authors, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 22 ratings. The most-rated is The Mouse and the Motorcycle.
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Summary
Ralph is not like the other mice at the Mountain View Inn. He is always looking for adventure. It is Ralph's lucky day when a young guest named Keith arrives with a shiny miniature motorcycle. Right away, Ralph knows that the motorcycle is special - and made to be ridden by an adventurous mouse. And once a mouse can ride a motorcycle...almost anything can happen!
©1965 Beverly Cleary (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers
On Such a Full Sea
Summary
From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee brings us into a world created from scratch. Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way listeners think about the world they live in. In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. Long-abandoned urban neighborhoods have been repurposed as highwalled, self-contained labor colonies. And the members of the labor class - descendants of those brought over en masse many years earlier from environmentally ruined provincial China - find purpose and identity in their work to provide pristine produce and fish to the small, elite, satellite charter villages that ring the labor settlement. In this world lives Fan, a female fish-tank diver, who leaves her home in the B-Mor settlement (once known as Baltimore), when the man she loves mysteriously disappears. Fan's journey to find him takes her out of the safety of B-Mor, through the anarchic Open Counties, where crime is rampant with scant governmental oversight, and to a faraway charter village, in a quest that will soon become legend to those she left behind.
©2013 Chang-rae Lee (P)2013 Penguin Audio
Runaway Ralph
Summary
Fed up with his family, Ralph decides to hop on his motorcycle and head down the road to Happy Acres Camp. Unfortunately, life at camp is not all peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches! A strict watchdog, a mouse-hungry cat, and a troubled boy named Garf keep Ralph on his toes and away from his precious motorcycle. Perhaps home is not such a bad place to be, if only Ralph can find a way to get there again!
©1970 Beverly Cleary (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers
Ralph S. Mouse
Summary
When Ralph and his pesky cousins accidentally make a mess at the Mountain View Inn, Ralph decides that he'd better take his motorcycle and leave. He persuades his young pal Ryan to take him to school, where Ralph is an instant hit with Ryan's classmates. But Ralph doesn't like being told what to do. Worse than that, his precious motorcycle gets broken. Is Ralph stuck at school forever?
©1982 Beverly Cleary (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers
Selected Shorts: New American Stories
Summary
New American Stories presents diverse stories of contemporary American life and dreams lost and found, by four of the best young contemporary writers - Jhumpa Lahiri, Sherman Alexie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Aleksandar Hemon - as performed by terrific stage and screen actors. All four writers have a unique perspective on the American experience, which is reflected in their work. Whether they are immigrants from another country, or in the case of Sherman Alexie, a Native American, they’re all writing from a voice that comes from being an outsider. They also share well-deserved, universal praise for their work.
©2011 Symphony Space (P)2011 Symphony Space
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Summary
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. "Once you can express yourself," she wrote, "you can tell the world what you want from it.... All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words." Now Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems and the inspiration behind her strong belief in the power of literature. The poems presented span centuries and include works by such renowned authors as Langston Hughes, William Shakespeare, Homer, W. B. Yeats, Emily Dickinson, E. E. Cummings, and Robert Frost. This volume also includes poems by Jacqueline Kennedy, illuminated by Caroline's reflections on her mother's life and work. A wonderful volume for listening to together or by yourself, this book offers an intimate view of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' world and a poignant glimpse into her heart. This audiobook includes a special reading by Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Robert Frost reading "The Gift Outright" at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1961. Full list of narrators includes Daniel Davis, Byron Jennings, and Jennifer Wiltsie.
©2016 Caroline Kennedy (P)2016 Hachette Audio
The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
Summary
A compassionate couple risks their lives to reunite a pair of Mandarin ducks and are rewarded in the end - but by whom?
©1990 Lodestar (P)1998 Weston Woods
Grandfather's Journey
Summary
Through compelling reminiscences of his grandfather's life in the United States and Japan, Allen Say poignantly recounts his family's journey to America. The feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries are sensitively narrated by B.D.Wong.
©2008 Houghton Mifflin (P)2008 Weston Woods
Selected Shorts
Summary
Hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families, many depicted from a kid's-eye-view, are the theme for this compilation. Being part of a family is often trying, and stranger than any fiction, but never dull and always worth it in the end. Join these very different families as they face the shrinking of parents, the pre-emptive guilt of First Confession, the secret worlds of children, and more! Included are: Shirley Jackson's CharlesRead by Lois SmithLaurie's parents are dying to meet the most misbehaved boy in school. Frank O'Connor's First ConfessionRead by Malachy McCourtA guilt-ridden Irish lad fears his first confession may be his last. Toure's Solomon's Big Day: A Children's StoryRead by Daniel Alexander JonesA little boy named Solomon escapes into the magical world of his paintings. Grace Paley's The Loudest Voice Read by Linda LavinThis year's Christmas pageant stars a Jewish girl. Diane Leslie's A Life of CrimeRead by Jill EikenberryLove and passion, Hollywood style, from a girl's-eye-view. Etgar Keret's Pride and JoyRead by Robert Sean LeonardA young man struggles to save his shrinking parents. Rick Moody's BoysRead by B. D. WongThe world of boys.
©2007 Symphony Space, Inc. (P)2007 Symphony Space, Inc.