Now that the excitement from the ALA Youth Media Awards have died down (we really are living in a super-fast news cycle!) (who are we kidding: we’re still excited!) we want to remind you that we’ll have yet ANOTHER reason to be excited about children’s literature: At 9:30 a.m. PST we’ll announce this year’s CYBILS winners!! You’ll want to come …
2017 Cybils Reactions, Part 2
A few more reactions have come in over the weeks, and we’d like to highlight them. Yay for all the reactions! Picking up where we left of: Congrats to @GingerlyWrites #SueeAndTheShadow, which was just chosen as a 2017 @cybils finalist for “Elementary / Middle Grade Graphic Novels” https://t.co/bB8ceHZNGh — ABRAMS Kids (@abramskids) January 3, 2018 @cybils Belated huge thanks for …
2017 Finalist Reactions!
We love seeing them! Here’s what we found across social media over the past couple of days: Ahhhhhhhh The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart is a Cybils Finalist (in the Elementary/MG Speculative Fiction category: https://t.co/pUeBF9dRTb )!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so, SO thrilled and over-the-moon about this!!! @KidsBloomsbury @bloomsburykids https://t.co/erjE1QctrC — Stephanie Burgis 🐲 …
2017 Cybils Finalists
2017 was a difficult year, all around. Participation was down (we had to put Audiobooks on hiatus!), several judges and category chairs had personal or family crises, and we had issues with getting access to all the books. It wasn’t easy for the Cybils this year. However, we rallied — we had 1426 books nominated across all the categories — we …
2017 Finalists Announced TOMORROW!
It’s the last day of the year, and you know what that means, right? The Cybils finalists will be announced TOMORROW. Check this space at 9:30 PST to see all the amazing books that made it through. Happy New Year!
During this Holiday Season
Happy Holidays from all of us at the Cybils! We are here to ask that, as you do your holiday shopping, to keep us in mind. If you follow any of the book links (like this one) through to Amazon, we get a percentage of anything you purchase (even non-book items). Every little bit helps us keep the machinery going …
Last Call for Nominations!
As a head’s up: tomorrow is the last day for public nominations! If you’re reading this, YOU can nominate! And we need (and want!) your nomination. If you don’t have a book you love to nominate (or yours has already been nominated…) check out these lists for ideas: Picture Books from The Picture Book Review Picture Books from Young Readers Board …
Nominate NOW!
The 2017 Cybils nominations are now live! Some quick reminders: First off, be sure to check out our category descriptions. If you don’t know where the book should go, please read through the descriptions to help you decide. If you’re still not quite sure, make your best guess, and we can straighten things out behind the scenes. Take a minute …
It’s Sepember 30th Already?
And you know what that means, don’t you? Only 24 more hours (more or less) until the Cybils nominations open!! I’m sure you’ve been thinking long and hard over the past few weeks about which books you want to nominate in every category, and you’re going to stay up super late (or get up super early; or maybe you just …
Category Descriptions: Young Adult Speculative Fiction
Speculative Fiction takes us to realms of the imagination: places and times and realities where the rules of life may be different than our own and where the impossible and improbable become real. But good science fiction and fantasy does more than that: it asks, “What if?” It makes us think. It holds up a mirror to our own society …