Tirzah Price, also known as The Compulsive Reader, is one of our panelists this year for Fantasy and Science Fiction–a daunting but rewarding quest indeed! At her blog, she reviews YA books of all genres, as well as posting book news, hosting contests, and featuring favorite books. Recently, she reviewed the latest novel by Justine Larbalestier, author of the Magic …

Fiction Picture Books panelist Cheryl Rainfield is a writer of teen fiction and a collector of all sorts of useful resources about children's and YA books–links, author websites, themed booklists for picture books and teen books, and more. She shares her love of books on her blog, which also includes in-depth reviews. One of her Cybils nominee reviews looked at …

Paula Willey is "the pink-haired librarian who reads all the kid books." She's a children's/YA book enthusiast and mother of two who blogs at Pink Me, recommending titles for all ages from baby books to YA novels, and compiling booklists of extra-special good ones. She's also part of the nominations panel for the Graphic Novels category this year. Paula posted …

I've always thought that Bookshelves of Doom was an enviably great name for a blog. Well, it's also an enviably great blog featuring book news, reviews, and other fun stuff by librarian and clever book-related t-shirt creator Leila Roy. (If you're looking for a literary gift idea that isn't a book, check out her Etsy shop for shirts with slogans …

Need gift-shopping ideas for your favorite children's and YA book enthusiasts? Let the Cybils help! You can start by checking over the full list of nominations, but if that seems daunting, a number of Cybils folks and bloggers around the kidlitosphere are putting together book recommendation lists for the holidays, including, of course, a host of excellent Cybils nominees. There's …

We've met Kelly Fineman, children's poet, writer, and blogger at Writing and Ruminating, a few weeks ago when we posted her co-review (with 7-Imp Jules) of Frankenstein Takes the Cake. This week, we're featuring one of her solo reviews posted at her LiveJournal blog, where she reviews children's books in addition to, well, ruminating about writing. This fall, Kelly looked …

Bet you didn't know that Tricia Stohr-Hunt, one of our Non-Fiction Picture Book panelists and creator of the blog The Miss Rumphius Effect, was once employed to test dog biscuits for fat content. No jive. She's also a professor and a mom, enough to qualify anybody for the title of Superwoman. Maybe that's why she decided to review Boys of …

You might not know Jill Tullo by name, but her blog is sure to ring a bell if you've cruised around the kidlitosphere–The Well-Read Child is her forum for getting kids to read, from little ones to young adults: "I feature book reviews, reading tips, and learning activities you can use to help instill the joy of reading in your …

YA writer and reviewer Kim Baccellia, who blogs at LiveJournal as well as reviewing at Enchanting Reviews, is no stranger to the Cybils–last year she was part of the nominating panel for Fantasy and Science Fiction (along with yours truly) and this year she's joined us again as a panelist for Middle Grade Fiction. She is the author of a …

Nettle is the online handle of one of our Fantasy and Sci-Fi panelists, but she also identifies herself as "Hunter and Bagger of the Elusive Snark" on her blog, The Puck in the Midden. She posts excellent reviews there as well as at Cabinet des Fées: A Fairy Tale Journal, which is where today's review is from. She's also associated …