Our featured reviewer for the day is a Cybils veteran instantly recognizable to many in the kidlit and book blogging community: Sherry Early, who blogs at Semicolon. Besides being a Round 1 judge this year for MG Fantasy and Sci-fi, she provides via her blog an astounding array of resources on books, kidlit, homeschooling, Christianity, and much much more. Fun …

One of our Round 1 judges for Easy Readers and Short Chapter Books this year is Katherine Sokolowski, who blogs at Read, Write, Reflect. She's a 5th grade teacher who uses blogging as a way to reflect on issues of teaching and literacy–and, of course, as a space to review books. Fun fact: She started blogging in 2011 and her …

Mary Ann Scheuer, our intrepid Book Apps Category Chair, is today's featured reviewer. A school librarian in Berkeley, CA, she's blogged at Great Kid Books since 2008, posting about fiction and nonfiction titles–and, of course, book apps–for kids aged 4-14. Fun fact: she's got a particular interest in books for tweens, and has compiled all her tween reviews on one …

Our featured reviewer of this wintry Friday is Cybils veteran Sarah Gross of The Reading Zone, one of our Round 1 judges for YA Fiction. Sarah is currently a high school English teacher passionate about finding great books to share with her students. Fun fact: She is the brains behind the ARCs Float On project, which aims to connect bloggers …

Today's review comes from our very own Poetry Category Chair, Jone MacCulloch. Jone blogs at Check It Out, and she's a library media specialist in Washington state. She's also an avid reader, photographer, poet, and frequent participant in Poetry Friday. Fun fact: for four years running, she's organized the Postcard Poetry Project, in which participants receive a student-written poem on …

Jessica Tackett of the blog Her Life With Books is today's featured reviewer–a Round 1 judge for MG/YA Nonfiction, she is also a fledgling librarian who enjoys reading children's and YA lit as well as, occasionally, writing it. Being all librarian-y, her blog features a wonderfully orderly list of reviews by genre for your reading edification. Fun fact: Jessica also …

Ellen Zschunke of the blog On the Shelf 4 Kids is today's featured reviewer. She's an elementary school librarian in Pennsylvania, and blogs not only about books (especially NFPB, where she's a Round 1 judge), but also about library projects and curriculum. Fun fact: She's also a coordinator for her school's TV studio! Recently, she reviewed Cybils nonfiction picture books …

Ourintrepid Middle Grade Fiction category chair, Karen Yingling, is today's featured reviewer. She blogs at Ms. Yingling Reads, where she reviews books for middle school students (both MG and YA), particularly boys. Her reviews are helpfully divided into adventure, fantasy, historical, humor, and sports. Fun Fact: she's got a great list of websites about boy books, if you're looking for …

Mama Librarian–aka Maggi Idzikowski–is a Cybils regular and a Round 1 panelist this year for Graphic Novels. She posts reviews on Goodreads as well as on her blog, where she and her kids rate books according to awesomeness, wordsmithing, personages, mesmerizitude, illustrations, and factfulness. Fun fact: She's also a member of The Newbery Project blog, which aims to read and …

Rebecca Reid blogs, appropriately, at Rebecca Reads, and she's also a Round 1 judge for this year's Fiction Picture Books category. On her blog, she posts not only about children's literature from board books through young adult, but also nonfiction and classics. She also posts about homeschooling and other reader-ly topics. Fun fact: her favorite reads range from Winnie-the-Pooh to …