Terry Doherty, one of our panelists for the Easy Readers category, is the Executive Director of The Reading Tub, a volunteer-driven, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting reading and literacy, written by parents, professors, and children's literature enthusiasts. Her goal is help make great kids' books accessible and encourage reading, and her book reviews do just that. Over the summer, Terry …
Meet the Panelists: Fantasy/Sci-Fi Roundtable
If you had a chance to read the first installment of Meet the Panelists, you'll remember that this is your opportunity to get to know the various judges and nominating panelists just a bit better–a peek behind the scenes and into the minds of the decision-makers behind the Cybils process. Today, courtesy of Fantasy and Science Fiction category organizer Tasha …
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The Year of the Rat by Grace Lin
On Sherry Early's Semicolon blog you'll find booklists, reviews, and a host of other resources on everything from picture books to homeschooling and everything in between. However, you might know Sherry best from her ongoing feature, the Saturday Reviews–a roundup of book reviews from around the kidlitosphere and beyond. Recently, Sherry–one of our nominating panelists for Middle Grade Fiction–reviewed Grace …
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Bog Child
"I kept meaning to start a librarian blog," says YA nominating panelist Abby Johnson, of Abby (the) Librarian. "[A]nd then one day…I did. I started it as a way to join this great community of kid-lit loving librarians, teachers, authors, students, parents, etc." In addition to sharing information and insights about children’s library programs, she also posts book reviews that …
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Cesar Takes a Break
Travis Jonker, who blogs at 100 Scope Notes, is one of this year’s panelists for Fiction Picture Books. An elementary school librarian for the past three years, he posts children’s literature news and reviews, including old favorites as well as great new books; brief interviews with authors called "5 Questions;" and links of interest to children’s literature fans. In his …
Thanks for the thanks
(A few thank yous have come our way from 2007 winners. We’d thought you’d like to know) This one arrived stamped Par Avion from across the pond, handwritten from one of the "Artemis Fowl" writers in England. They won for Best Graphic Novel, Middle Grade: Dear Anne and all at blog.cybils.com: A big thank you from myself, Eoin, Giovanni, and …
The 2008 Nominations
The links below will take you to the full list of nominations in each genre. If you don’t see a book you suggested, it’s likely on another list. We did a little horse-swapping behind the scenes as some books didn’t quite fit the category where they’d been nominated. Please consider using these lists for your holiday shopping. Is it too …
2008 Nominations
Young Adult Novels
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea written by Valerie Zenatti Bloomsbury USA A La Carte written by Tanita S. Davis Random House Children’s Books Absolute Brightness written by James Lecesne HarperCollins After Tupac and D Foster written by Jacqueline Woodson Putnam Alive and Well in Prague, New York written by Daphne Grab HarperCollins Amor and Summer Secrets written by Diana …
2008 Nominations
Poetry
A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry written by Marjorie Maddox illustrated by Philip Huber Boyds Mills Press Adventures of Isabel, The written by Ogden Nash illustrated by Bridget Taylor Jabberwocky/Sourcebooks America at War illustrated by Stephen Alcorn edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins Simon & Schuster Animal Poems of the Iguazu/Animalario del Iguazu written by Francisco X. Alarcon illustrated …
2008 Nominations
Non-Fiction Picture Books
“Mrs. Riley Bought Five Itchy Aardvarks” and Other Painless Tricks for Memorizing Science Facts written by Brian P. Cleary illustrated by J. P. Sandy Millbrook Press A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero written and illustrated by Gina Capaldi Carolrhoda Books A Den is a Bed for Bear written and illustrated by Becky …