Welcome to the Cybils Awards off-season!
We’ve had so much great response to our booklists that we are going run themed lists twice a month, made up of past Cybils nominees, finalists and winners.
If you’d like to participate, email us a themed list of your favorite books to blogeditor@cybils.com. If you need help thinking of books check out our lists of finalists over at cybils.com.
We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Jukebox
by Nidhi Chanani
First Second
2021 Finalist, Elementary/Middle Grade Graphic Novels
Blackbird Fly
by Erin Entrada Kelly
Greenwillow Books
2015 Finalist, Middle Grade Fiction
Frank and Bean
by Jamie Michalak, illustrated by Bob Kolar
Candlewick
2019 Finalist, Easy Reader
Jasmine Toguchi, Drummer Girl
by Debbi Michiko Florence, illustrated by Elizabet Vukovic
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2019 Finalist, Easy Reader
Jazz
by Walter Dean Myers; illustrated by Christopher Myers
Holiday House
2006 Finalist, Poetry
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
by Nikki Grimes
Bloomsbury Children’s Books
2017 Finalist, Poetry
The Orphan Band of Springdale
by Anne Nesbit
Candlewick
2018 Finalist, Middle Grade Fiction
Penny and Her Song
by Kevin Henkes
Greenwillow Books
2012 Finalist, Easy Reader
Playlist: The Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound
by James Rhodes, illustrated by Martin O’Neill
Candlewick Studio
2019 Finalist, High School Nonfiction
Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald
by Roxane Orgill, illustrated by Sean Qualls
Candlewick
2010 Finalist, Elementary Nonfiction
Sonny’s Bridge: Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins Finds His Groove
by Barry Wittenstein, illustrated by Keith Mallett
Charlesbridge
2019 Finalist, Elementary Nonfiction
Queen of Tejano Music: Selena
by Silvia López, illustrated by Paola Escobar
Little Bee Books
2020 Nominee, Elementary Nonfiction
BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams
by Michael Allred and Steve Horton, illustrated by Laura Allred
Insight Comics
2020 Nominee, Young Adult Graphic Novels
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song
by Gary Golio, illustrated by Charlotte Riley-Webb
Millbrook Press
2017 Nominee, Middle Grade Nonfiction
Music Is . . .
by Brandon Stosuy, illustrated by Amy Martin
Little Simon
2016 Nominee, Board Books
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