I’m pleased to announce that we have 45 nominated titles for middle grade and young adult non-fiction for this year’s Cybils awards. There are lots of great selections for kids of all ages. Many thanks to the people who submitted nominations. Jen Robinson, Organizer for the Middle Grade and Young Adult Nonfiction Category
2007 Middle Grade Fiction Nominations
Let me say; I love these Cybils list. I only wish I had the time to read all the nominations, because they all look so good. Here is Middle Grade; seventy five nominations! We have a little bit of everything, from books for your younger readers to historical fiction to genre-bending illustrated books. Books to make you cry, books to …
2007 Fiction Picture Books Nominations
Count them. Well, okay, you don’t have to do that. I’ll tell you: We have over one hundred nominations in this category: 118, to be exact. Many thanks to everyone who submitted nominations. Needless to say, there’s something for everyone here in this list. See for yourself! Jules, Organizer for the Fiction Picture Books category
Introducing the Cybils widget
Isn’t this widget just lovely? It’s helping us highlight–and sell–the glorious children’s and young adult books nominated over the past seven weeks here at the 2007 Cybils. Refresh the page and see what happens. Ta-dah! A whole new book pops up. Within the next few days, we expect to have our widget loaded with every nominated book–however many that turns …
2007 Poetry Nominations
We have a total of forty-two nominations in the poetry category this year. Without further ado, here’s our list of nominees, organized alphabetically by title. –Kelly Fineman, Poetry Organizer
2007 Nominations are now closed
Many thanks to all who nominated. We hope you had fun picking your favorites. Now it’s our panelists’ turn. While we’re waiting for them to plow through the lists and make up their minds, we’ll still be busy here at Cybils. Starting Friday, the full lists of nominees will trickle in from our organizers, all nicely alphabetized. I’ll post them …
Telling Fibs to everyone
One of our esteemed Poetry judges, Gregory K. from GottaBook, is perhaps best known as the inventor of the Fib poem, based on the Fibonacci mathematical sequence of 1,1,2,3,5,8,13…(basically, you keeping taking the last two numbers and adding them together to get the next in the sequence). Fibs are the subject of a feature story at the Poetry Foundation, which …
Fids and Kamily
If you’re like me and the very mention of "The Wiggles" makes you twitch, you’ve no doubt already discovered Stefan Shephard’s blog for children’s music, Zooglobble. He’s a Cybils fan too and has sent some traffic our way. He knows a thing or two about awards. He (and some other kids music writers) just concluded Fids and Kamily, a list …
REVIEW: Louisiana’s Song by Kerry Madden
If I post at Bildungsroman about a series, you can bet you’ll read the phrase, "Read the books in order," followed by a list of titles. Louisiana’s Song by Kerry Madden is the second book in a trilogy about a big family growing up in North Carolina. Unlike many middle books in trilogies, this book can stand on its own …
Hey, fence sitters, time to make up your minds!
Nominations close at midnight Chicago time on Wednesday, Nov. 21. I know some of you have been waiting until the 11th hour … well, that’s like any second now, okay? I won’t actually be up at midnight tomorrow, but I’ll delete any nominations that come in after deadline. I hate, hate, hate being a grouch, it really doesn’t suit my …