Sherry Early of the long-running Semicolon blog is today's featured reviewer. She's a longtime Cybils supporter and participant and writes excellent, in-depth reviews of titles ranging from picture books to adult fiction. This year she's a Round 1 judge for YA Nonfiction, but she reviews a wide variety of genres, as evidenced by today's review. Earlier this year Sherry reviewed …
REVIEW: Once Upon a Northern Night
Dawn Mooney of 5 Minutes for Books is a Cybils regular, and this year she brings us her expertise as a Round 1 panelist for Fiction Picture Books. Whether she's looking at books for older readers or younger ones, she brings her own voice to a wonderful group blog that reviews books for everyone from babies to adults. A couple …
REVIEW: How to Fake a Moon Landing
Not only is Lyn Miller-Lachman one of our Round 1 panelists this year for Graphic Novels, she's also a writer in her own right (author of Gringolandia) and blogger at The Pirate Tree, which is described as "a collective of children’s and young adult writers interested in children’s literature and social justice issues." They review and discuss books for kids …
REVIEW: Alvin Ho: Allergic to Babies, Burglars, and Other Bumps in the Night
Today's featured blog review comes from Geo Librarian–aka Heidi Grange, who is a Round 1 judge this year for Middle Grade Fiction and a regular participant in Marvelous Middle Grade Monday. Her very active blog features giveaways, blog tours, and other fun stuff in addition to numerous book reviews. One of her reviews earlier this year covered MG Fiction Nominee …
Shop Cybils for Black Friday!
Well, okay, you can shop Cybils any time. We don't mind. But if you're already doing some online shopping, why not earn the Cybils a teensy bit of affiliate income by clicking on ANY of our book links to Amazon? As long as you start your shopping by clicking here, you can buy books, appliances, TVs, luxury cars, whatever you …
REVIEW: Frog Song
Our Elementary/Middle Grade Nonfiction review of the day comes from panelist Carol Wilcox, who blogs at Carol's Corner and has been a Cybils regular for many years now. She's a mom and educator, and posts thoughtful reviews of picture books, chapter books, poetry, and more. Recently, she reviewed Cybils nominee Frog Song, written by Brenda Z. Guiberson and illustrated by …
REVIEW: Bad Girls
Jessica Tackett MacDonald blogs at Her Life With Books, and this year she's a Round 1 panelist for Young Adult Nonfiction. By day, she's a librarian who posts reviews and booklists of children's and YA literature as well as posts about library life, cat pictures, and other random fun things. Last week, Jessica posted about a few of this year's …
REVIEW: When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders
Today's featured review, in the Poetry category, comes from Round 1 Poetry panelist and longtime Cybils veteran Kelly Fineman of Writing and Ruminating. Kelly is a poet herself, so she knows whereof she speaks–she's the author of the lovely picture book At the Boardwalk. Earlier this year, she reviewed Cybils Poetry nominee When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders …
A Temporary Au Revoir, and an Introduction
It's that time of year again–that time when the Cybils organizing crew starts working on planning the upcoming contest, and the blog starts to become more active again. This year, that means I'm bowing out for the time being, as I did a couple of years ago, because I have a YA novel eligible for the contest. So long, farewell, …
48-Hour Book Challenge
Our own Pam "MotherReader" Coughlan is taking a well-deserved rest this year from hosting the 48-Hour Book Challenge–handing it off for the nonce to Karen "Ms." Yingling, also a familiar face around the Cybils, and this past year's Middle Grade Fiction Chair. In case you've never heard of the 48-Hour Book Challenge, what it is, in essence, is a fun …