This morning, the American Library Association announced its literary awards for children’s books. As always, there were surprises. What isn’t particularly surprising, however, is that a number of books on the CYBILS short lists have received honors and awards from ALA. –Kelly Fineman, Poetry Organizer Here are the CYBILS titles, in alphabetical order by ALA award name: Caldecott HonorKnuffle Bunny …

Our panelists and judges are busy, busy folks. It’s tough to keep up with them, but here are two newsy tidbits: The Middle Grade panelists had some fun with characters from their favorite books, compiling a Hall of Fame. This is by now a tradition for Little Willow, who compiled one for YA characters last year. Mary Lee & Franki …

Thanks to Jen Robinson, we have a handy-dandy PDF of finalists for all eight categories. Download a copy for easy printing and take it to the bookstore or library with you.

Hi Cybils Fans, This is Jen Robinson, 2007 Cybils Middle Grade/YA Nonfiction committee organizer, and Young Adult Fiction judging committee member. I’m interrupting your regular scheduled Cybils programming to let you know that I’m guest blogging this month at PBS Parents: Expert Q&A. The way this works is that I have put up one detailed post about my love of …

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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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 …

Tomorrow is the first of our finalist announcements. I think I’ll torture you a little. Some trivia about the lists, but no hints: Two of them have grown to eight seven, and another to seven, eight, instead of last year’s five;* The Fantasy/Science Fiction list has split in two by age group, with five in each; There are a goodly …

The Cybils team would like to congratulate panelist Mindy, who blogs at Propernoun.net, on the birth of her new daughter. We’re all so happy for you, Mindy! Mindy has been a tireless member of the middle grade/young adult nonfiction nominating committee this year, and is already back on board with discussions. We are very fortunate to have her as part …

Our panelists have gotten to know the UPS and post office delivery folks pretty well by now; those boxes keep arriving packed with nominated books. Unfortunately, Santa’s got a lock on those same services this time of year, and anything stamped “Media Mail” is shunted to the back of the sled. We find ourselves in a dilemma: either we’re going …