Kelly here, again. We’re cleaning up behind the scenes, ordering prizes for our winners and stickers for their books, and soon we’ll be soliciting your thoughts on the Cybils process. In the meantime, here’s some serious linkage. Take a look, and comment where you can. The Cybils made Publishers Weekly Children’s Bookshelf this week. (Squee!) Children’s Bookshelf is a weekly …
The blogs are buzzing!
Kelly here. I hope everyone’s had a wonderful weekend–reading, writing, and surfing (the blogs, of course). The blogs have been buzzing since the Cybils announcements this Valentine’s Day. I thought I’d jump in and tell you what everyone’s saying. Our writers and illustrators react with good humor and humility. Brian Floca, author of Lightship (winner Non Fiction Picture book), has …
REVIEW: The Off Season, by Catherine Murdock
Kelly here, checking in with a review from Jen Robinson. What can we say about Jen in a brief introduction? Well, she runs an amazing blog (Jen Robinson’s Book Page), writes level-headed, intelligent reviews, and has a passion for childhood literacy. She’s been with the Cybils from the beginning and we couldn’t think of surviving without her. Jen is an …
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One Thousand Tracings, by Lita Judge
Chris Barton = Non Fiction. He’s a writer–of Non-fiction, bien sur–and has been blogging about writing and all things Non Fiction at Bartography since June of 2005. So when we put together our nominating and judging panels for the 2007 Cybils, we went knocking at his (virtual) door. Non-fiction needed Chris, and thank goodness for us he joined the team.
REVIEW: Greetings from Planet Earth by Barbara Kerley
Hi. Kelly, here. Director of the Cybils, editor of The Edge of the Forest, and blogger over at Big A little a. Sadly, I’m not on any panel this year. I chose instead to work behind the scenes and I miss the animated discussions of a nominating panel. Sigh. Still, I’ve been lucky enough to read many of the Cybils-nominated …
REVIEW: The Silenced by James Devita
What can we say about Tadmack (Tanita S. Davis) that will do justice to her awesomeness? Let’s see…Her first novel is coming out soon. She’s wicked smart and shares her reviews and views with us over at Reading YA: Readers’ Rants and Finding Wonderland. (She co-blogs with the equally cool Sarah Stevenson, our Graphic Novels organizer.) And, according to insider …
REVIEW: Penguin by Polly Dunbar
Cheryl Rainfield, a member of the Fiction Picture Book nominating panel, is always looking for the good in children’s books. Cheryl keeps two sets of booklists on her site–one devoted to picture books and the other to Young Adult books–and one book blog. She’s a reviewing machine! Recently she considered Cybils-nominated picture book Penguin, by Polly Dunbar, and here’s her …
REVIEW: Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R.L. LaFevers
Traci, who blogs at Fields of Gold, is one of the youngest bloggers working for the Cybils. At just fifteen years old, Traci likes acting, singing, dancing, and reading. Good thing she likes to read. She’s serving on the nominating panel for one of our biggest categories–Fantasy/Science Fiction. Recently Traci read Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos, by R.L. LaFevers, …
REVIEW: When Gorilla Goes Walking by Nikki Grimes
Cloudscome blogs over at A Wrung Sponge and is a poetry fanatic. A librarian and a regular Poetry Friday contributor, Cloudscome is also a dab hand at the haiku. Luckily for the Cybils, Cloudscome is serving as a judge on the Poetry Committee this year. Today, she shares her review of the 2007 Cybils nominated title, When Gorilla Goes Walking, …
A behind-the-scenes look at the nominating panels
Fifty-some bloggers on eight committees are busy finding, reading, and evaluating the hundreds of titles nominated for the 2007 Cybils. What will they be doing and thinking about when choosing the best children’s and YA books of 2007? I. Organizers Each panel organizer supervises the full list of nominations, which includes: Making sure a book has been nominated in the …