The audiobook for Five Stories by Ellen Weinstein is now available, produced by Live Oak Media.

AudioFile Magazine writes, “Listeners meet… Wei Ye in the present day, whose lively curiosity is beautifully depicted by Albert M. Chan. The production is enhanced by original music, evocative sound effects, and Weinstein’s heartfelt narration of her afterword.”

Ellen Weinstein, who was present during Albert’s recording session, blogged, “I had the pleasure of hearing Albert M. Chan beautifully narrate the story of Wei Ye from Fuzhou, China… a fantastic production with stellar actors, original music, and sound effects from this award-winning studio.”

Published by Holiday House in 2024, Five Stories is about five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, growing up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City.

Jenny Epstein and her family arrive on a steamship from Russia in the 1910s. Jenny writes letters in Yiddish to her grandmother, while practicing her English in her new neighborhood. By the 1930s, when Anna Cozzi and her Italian family move into the building, Jenny has become a teacher in Anna’s school. Then José Marte moves in during the 1960s, Maria Torres in the 1980s, and Wei Yei in the Lower East Side of today.