Only two more days until we publish the finalists in all eight categories. I wanted to take this time to thank all our hard-working panelists for sifting through roughly 700 books in only six weeks, and to our organizers for birthing this baby in record time and with almost zero complications. But the biggest shout-out goes to Kelly Herold, whose …

Most of us at Team Cybils have spent this holiday season with our noses deep in a book. We’d like to come up for air long enough to wish you all a happy holiday, whereever you are and however you celebrate. We’re sure there’ll be a stack of books under your tree. But if you’re stuck on what to get, …

As Cybils progressed from a gee-whiz comment on Kelly’s blog to a real event with 80 volunteers and nearly 700 books to read, I wondered what it would be like to meet some of the kidlit bloggers helping us. Who are you? What brought you to our contest? What would it be like to sit down and chat with some …

Thanks to the many hundreds of people who stopped by to list a favorite book in any of our eight categories. You can look forward to reading the full lists over the course of the coming days–just in time to start your holiday shopping! All the book titles will be linked to Amazon, and we earn a microscopic commission from …

You only have until Monday at midnight (Eastern time) to post your nominations! Not that we’re pressuring you or anything. But stick around afterward. We’ll be posting the full lists of nominees, and we’ll still be featuring a book and a blogger every day in our Reviews of the Day.

Ever wonder what it takes to judge a literary award? Us too. Even as volunteers rolled in, we weren’t quite sure what to tell them. Some things we do know: Judging starts after the Top Five are announced on January 1; Judging ends, uh, at a date to be announced later, probably early February; Judges are expected to read all …

You can feel safe knowing your lists of nominees will go to our trusty panelists, who will then have a good chuckle at your expense, toss your suggestions and vote for their best friends. Scared ya, didn’t I? The panelists are the finest group of unrepentent bookworms and kidlit fetishists to ever set their sticky fingers on a keyboard. What, …

Just a friendly reminder from the Cybils team to nominate only one book per category. Thanks all.

Welcome to the 2006 Cybils, the first award of its kind from kidlit bloggers. We’re basically going to let you, the blog-reading public, nominate your favorite books and then we’ll have the happy task of winnowing it down to our favorites. Watch this blog for future announcements about how to nominate books and which books are eligible. Thanks for joining …