Call for Judges

It’s nearing the end of summer and beach reads are slowly giving way to back-to-school booklists. It’s time for the 2014 Cybils Awards to get underway. Cue balloons and pigeons and national anthem and stuff! Okay, we don’t have any of that. It’s still pretty exciting, though. We kick off our new season by lining up a new crew of …

Welcome to the new website!

In preparation for the 2014 season, we’ve been working hard this summer to set up a shiny new website for the Cybils Awards. The old website has served us well, but after eight years of continually adding to it, it was getting cluttered and difficult to find what you’re looking for. So, we decided to make a fresh start. Our goal …

Some musings on publisher/author submissions

Last year for the first time, we provided a separate window of time when publishers and authors could submit their own books. From the beginning, we've always allowed publishers and authors to nominate their own books, but there were problems. Our nomination process, especially the "one nomination per person per category" rule, didn't work well for publishers, and there was …

2012 Nominations: Young Adult Fiction

34 Pieces of You by Carmen Rodrigues Simon Pulse Nominated by: flamingo1325 37 Things I Love (in no particular order) by Kekla Magoon Henry Holt Nominated by: Mads Reviewed by: Clementine 4th Floor Lounge, The by Amanda Hamm Before Someday Publishing Publisher/ Author Submission All These Lives by Sarah Wylie Farrar, Straus & Giroux Nominated by: Natareads Also Known as …

2012 Nominations: Poetry

A Meal of the Stars: Poems Up and Down by Dana Jensen Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Nominated by: Katherine Sokolowski Reviewed by: Carol A Stick Is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play by Marilyn Singer Clarion Books Nominated by: Sara Bryce A Strange Place to Call Home: The World’s Most Dangerous Habitats & the Animals That Call Them …