Dawn Mooney of 5 Minutes for Books is a Cybils regular, and this year she brings us her expertise as a Round 1 panelist for Fiction Picture Books. Whether she's looking at books for older readers or younger ones, she brings her own voice to a wonderful group blog that reviews books for everyone from babies to adults. A couple …

Not only is Lyn Miller-Lachman one of our Round 1 panelists this year for Graphic Novels, she's also a writer in her own right (author of Gringolandia) and blogger at The Pirate Tree, which is described as "a collective of children’s and young adult writers interested in children’s literature and social justice issues." They review and discuss books for kids …

Today's featured blog review comes from Geo Librarian–aka Heidi Grange, who is a Round 1 judge this year for Middle Grade Fiction and a regular participant in Marvelous Middle Grade Monday. Her very active blog features giveaways, blog tours, and other fun stuff in addition to numerous book reviews. One of her reviews earlier this year covered MG Fiction Nominee …

Our Elementary/Middle Grade Nonfiction review of the day comes from panelist Carol Wilcox, who blogs at Carol's Corner and has been a Cybils regular for many years now. She's a mom and educator, and posts thoughtful reviews of picture books, chapter books, poetry, and more. Recently, she reviewed Cybils nominee Frog Song, written by Brenda Z. Guiberson and illustrated by …

Jessica Tackett MacDonald blogs at Her Life With Books, and this year she's a Round 1 panelist for Young Adult Nonfiction. By day, she's a librarian who posts reviews and booklists of children's and YA literature as well as posts about library life, cat pictures, and other random fun things. Last week, Jessica posted about a few of this year's …

Today's featured review, in the Poetry category, comes from Round 1 Poetry panelist and longtime Cybils veteran Kelly Fineman of Writing and Ruminating. Kelly is a poet herself, so she knows whereof she speaks–she's the author of the lovely picture book At the Boardwalk. Earlier this year, she reviewed Cybils Poetry nominee When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders …

It's fitting that our final review of the finalist period would come from a loyal and hardworking Cybils regular–Charlotte Taylor, who blogs about children's and YA fantasy and sci-fi at Charlotte's Library. She was a round 1 judge this year for MG Fantasy and Sci-Fi, and one of the most fun aspects of her blog is that every Sunday, she …

Katie Fitzgerald of Secrets & Sharing Soda is today's featured blogger. She's a Round 1 panelist for Easy Readers and Early Chapter Books, she's a children's librarian by day, and she blogs about a wide range of kidlit-related topics–including regular features called Old School Sunday, in which she reviews books published in the '90s and before. Fun fact: Katie furnished …

Our featured reviewer for the day, Helen Dineen, is a UK-based blogger at CAppTivated Kids, where she blogs about iPad apps for young children. She's always on the lookout for entertaining and educational apps for her two little ones, and on her blog she posts about her favorites. Fun fact: Though she's a Twitter veteran, she's relatively new to blogging–she …

Kellie Tilton, aka Kell, is today's featured blogger. A university librarian and Round 1 judge for YA Fiction this year, she blogs at The Re-Shelf, where she posts primarily about young adult fiction, especially contemporary romance, fantasy, and dystopians. Fun fact: she's a big Doctor Who fan (a surprising number of us Cybils folk are…) One of the YA Cybils …