Andrea of Just One More Book!! podcasting fame (read more about her here and here) has posted an interview with the other panelists on the nonfiction picture book list. Have a listen.
2007 Young Adult Fiction Finalists
Finding the best seven titles out of a list of 123 is… daunting, to say the least. The bloggers on this year’s YA nominating panel embraced the challenge, and below you’ll find the books that survived discussion and passionate debate through countless emails and one very long instant-message group chat. We’re proud of our shortlist, and hope you love it …
2007 Nonfiction Picture Book Finalists
The Nonfiction Picture Book panelists had some fabulous books to choose from this year, and the ones that made the short list are representative of all the best things this category has to offer: informative and engaging text, brilliant illustrations, and lots of appeal for young readers. — Eisha Prather, Nonfiction Picture Books organizer. Guess What is Growing Inside this …
2007 Graphic Novel Finalists
The hardworking Graphic Novels panel has narrowed down the nominees to five finalists at the teen/young adult age level and five at the elementary & middle-grade level, for a shortlist that’s truly dazzling as well as diverse: fantasy, manga, animals, humor–there’s a little bit of everything. Oh, and robots. You gotta have robots. —Sarah Stevenson, Graphic Novels organizer Teen/Young Adult: …
2007 MG/YA Nonfiction Finalists
The middle grade/young adult nonfiction committee has selected, from the 45 nominated books, a collection of seven high-quality, kid-friendly titles. Looking to read more nonfiction in 2008? Any or all of these titles will get you off to an excellent start. Of course, there are other wonderful titles on the nominations list, too, but the committee felt that these seven …
Trivia contest
So far, there’s only one entrant to a Cybils trivia contest going on over at Book Buds, your humble editor’s alter-blog. Here’s the deal: You answer three questions via email, and you get a chance to win a pop-up version of The Chronicles of Narnia. Okay, so C.S. Lewis isn’t one of our finalists this year, but it’s a very …
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Yes, we’re shamelessly promoting our "brand" here. Now you too can own stuff with our fabulous logo emblazoned on it, thanks to the wonders of CafePress. Click on the ad below for the full line of Cybils stuff. We only have a handful of items. We’ll do t-shirts as soon as we think up a slogan. Got any ideas? Leave …
Wedding bells for a Cybils judge
We here at the Cybils extend a big, cheerful Mazel Tov to Stacey Shubitz of Two Writing Teachers. Stacey is one of this year’s judges for the Fiction Picture Books category. On December 23, 2007, despite lots of rain she had a beautiful wedding ceremony, marrying Marc at the The Grand Summit Hotel in Summit, New Jersey. She celebrated with …
We have a winner: it’s us!
What’s it like waking up and discovering you’re a Cybils finalist? Sarah Beth Durst had trouble waiting until 6 a.m. yesterday, when the lists began posting: My husband admitted later that he’d actually woken up earlier and had been lying in bed thinking, "I want to check. I don’t want to check. I want to check. I don’t want to …
2007 Science Fiction & Fantasy Finalists
It was difficult to choose only ten books out of the 94 outstanding nominations we received in fantasy and science fiction, but the panelists worked hard and passionately to choose the best of the best. We selected five finalists for the teen/young adult age level and five for the elementary & middle grade level. We hope you enjoy these books …