The Marvin and the Moths Audiobook is Now Available

Over the course of 12 years writing Marvin and the Moths, Matt and I went through countless revisions, getting the characters and the plot of the book just right. It was an exhilarating but exhausting experience. So, when Scholastic Audio bought the rights to produce the audiobook, we were excited, not just because it was another medium for the Marvin tale, but also because the narrative would provide an entirely new dimension to the characters that we created.

For the first time, we would hear the characters speak! For this task, in coordination with our audio producer, we selected for the book narrator the award-winning actor Ramón de Ocampo whose work includes more than a hundred audiobooks — like the bestselling Diary of A Wimpy Kid series. Ramon did an incredible voicing the numerous, zany character that inhabit Butcherville — from mutant moths to incompetent bureaucrats to sinister corporate overlords. And Ramon even sang the songs that were written into the text. Who could ask for more?

You have to hear the Marvin and the Moths audiobook, which is now available on Audible. It's an unabridged, 6 hours and 46 minutes of fun and mayhem. Listen to a free chapter from the audiobook here.

Matthew Holm, the Eisner Award-winning cocreator of Babymouse, teams with his childhood best friend, Jonathan Follett, for a hilarious prose debut. Middle school is off to a rocky start for Marvin Watson. Doomed to misfit status, his only friends are a girl with major orthodontics, the smelliest boy in school, and the trio of sarcastic man-size moths that live in his attic. No one said middle school would be easy! Also, no one said that Marvin's town would be threatened by mutant bugs, including a very hungry Shakespeare-quoting spider. But life in the suburbs is full of surprises. Will Marvin be the one to unravel the mystery behind the mutants and save the town? Or will he be too busy with the real threat: his first school dance?! This hilarious send-up of middle school has the humor of James Patterson's I Funny, the underdog hero of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and the zany action of NERDS. Plus: talking moths.