Today we introduce Anne Boles Levy, Editor of the Cybils blog: Me and my big mouth started this contest last year when I left a smart-alecky comment on Kelly Herold’s blog. I said us blogging upstarts should up and start our own contest. Kelly, being one of these organized types, took me up on it. I began my foray into …
About Eisha Prather
Today we introduce Eisha, our Non-Fiction Picture Books organizer: Hey! I’m Eisha, and I’m the other half of the blogging team behind Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast (you’ve already met Jules). At our blog we review books for all ages, but we tend to emphasize children’s and YA lit. We also feature interviews with authors, illustrators and bloggers; participate in …
About Little Willow
Today we introduce Little Willow, our Forum Moderator and Henchwoman for YA Outreach. Hi there! I’m an actress, singer, and dancer as well as a writer and a bookseller. I review books and interview authors at my lit blog. I specialize in children’s fiction, ranging from juvenile classics to contemporary teen fiction. My blog’s title, Bildungsroman, is the German term …
About Jackie Parker
Today we introduce Jackie Parker, our Young Adult Fiction organizer: I don’t remember playing with dolls as a child. What I do remember is hanging out in hot, musty school libraries as my librarian mother prepared for the school year. I remember helping by spreading out the new catalog cards across a great swath of carpeting and dancing across them …
Graphic Novels
Category Organizer: Sarah Stevenson (Reading YA: Readers’ Rants) Nominating Panel: Mary Lee Hahn (A Year of Reading)Alyssa Feller (The Shady Glade)Katie Zenke (Pixie Palace) Elizabeth Jones Gina Ruiz (AmoXicalli) Judging Panel: David Elzey (The Excelsior File) J.L. Bell (Oz and Ends)Anna (TangognaT)Snow Wildsmith (My Reading Project) Angie Thompson (Angieville)
Fantasy/Science Fiction
Category Organizer: Sheila Ruth (Wands and Worlds) Nominating Panel: Kim BaccelliaSheila Ruth (Wands and Worlds)Leila Roy (Bookshelves of Doom)Sarah Stevenson (Reading YA: Readers’ Rants)TraciTasha Sacker (Kids Lit)Tanita Davis (TadMack) (Finding Wonderland: The Writing YA Weblog) Judging Panel: Michele Fry (Scholar’s Blog)Gwenda Bond (Shaken & Stirred)Chris Rettstatt (Chris Rettstatt’s blog)Janelle Bitikofer (Writermorphosis)Libby (Lessons from a Tortoise)
Non Fiction (MG/YA)
Category Organizer: Jen Robinson (Jen Robinson’s Book Page) Nominating Panel: Mindy (Propernoun.net)Susan Thomsen (Chicken Spaghetti)KT Horning (Worth the Trip) Vivian (HipWriterMama) Becky (Farm School at Home) Judging Panel: Tracy Chrenka (Talking in the Library) Emily Mitchell (Emily Reads)Camille Powell (Book Moot)Alice Herold (Big A litte a)Jennie Rothschild (Biblio File)
Young Adult Fiction
Category Organizer: Jackie Parker (Interactive Reader) Nominating Panel: Stacy DeKeyser Trisha (The YaYaYas)Anne Heidemann (Librarianne)Charlotte Taylor (Charlotte’s Library)Becky Laney (Becky’s Book Reviews)Eisha (Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast)Jackie Parker (Interactive Reader) Judging Panel: Liz Burns (A Chair, A Fireplace & a Tea Cozy) Jennifer Laughran (Not Your Mother’s Bookclub) Sarah MillerMaureen Kearney (Confessions of a Bibliovore) Jen Robinson (Jen Robinson’s Book …
Middle Grade Fiction
Category Organizer: Liz Burns (A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy) Nominating Panel: Kate MessnerErin (Miss Erin)Little Willow (Bildungsroman) Sherry Early (Semicolon)Amanda Snow (A Patchwork of Books)Jocelyn Pearce (Teen Book Review)Kerry Millar (Shelf Elf) Judging Panel: Stacy Dillon (Booktopia)Betsy Bird (A Fuse #8 Production) Lindsey Dunn (Zee Says) Christine NorrisBruce Black (Wordswimmer)
Non-Fiction Picture Books
Category Organizer: Eisha (Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast) Nominating Panel: Andrea (Just One More Book!!) Emily Beeson (Whimsy Books) Tricia Stohr-Hunt (The Miss Rumphius Effect)Fiona Bayrock (Books and Rocks)Jennifer Schultz (Kiddosphere) Judging Panel: Chris Barton (Bartography)Jackie Merchant (Tiny Treasury)Adrienne Mason (Tough City Writer)Becky Bilby (In the Pages)Adrienne Furness (What Adrienne Thinks About That)