Today's featured review comes from one of our new volunteers this year, Jeff Barger. Jeff, who blogs at NC Teacher Stuff, is a kindergarten teacher and one of our Round I Judges for Easy Readers and Early Chapter Books. On his blog, you'll find reviews of quality library books as well as a wealth of online instructional resources for teachers. …

You've already been introduced to our Fiction Picture Books category organizer, Pam Coughlan, aka MotherReader. No doubt you're already familiar with her through one of her reading or commenting challenges, or one of her hilarious recurring blog features like Bloggers Against Celebrity Authors (BACA). But what makes MotherReader a Mother Reader? Well, that would be TeenReader. We're happy to report …

Lori Calabrese is not only a Round II judge for the Fiction Picture Books category, she's an author in her own right–of Oh! The Possibilities and the forthcoming The Bug that Plagued the Entire Third Grade. On her blog, she posts about children's books, writing, literacy, and more from the perspective of an author, mother, and–of course–a reader. One of …

I always feel a little weird tooting my own horn on the Cybils blog, but I had to share my review of two of our Cybils graphic novel finalists–little did I know, when I wrote about both of these in the same post, that they'd end up on the short list and I'd have to evaluate them as a Round …

We've got two more blurbs for you, our inquiringly-minded readers, giving you a sneak peek at what it was like for our Round I judges to narrow down such a fantastic (and, in some cases, fantastically huge) field of nominations. Today, check out the story being Fantasy and Science Fiction and Fiction Picture Books. Sheila Ruth, Fantasy and Science Fiction: …

Tricia Stohr-Hunt, Round I Poetry judge and blogger at The Miss Rumphius Effect, describes her site as "[t]he blog of a teacher educator discussing poetry, children's literature and issues related to teaching children and their future teachers." But it's so much more than that–including a regular home for Poetry Friday and the Poetry Stretch, an incredible agglomeration of booklists…you'll just …

Alicia Blowers, a middle school librarian, is also known as the LibrariYAn on her blog, where she regularly reviews YA titles as well as participating in Nonfiction Monday. She's one of our Round I judges for Middle Grade and YA Non-Fiction this year. Earlier on in the Cybils process, Alicia took a look at NFMG/YA finalist title I Can't Keep …

Carol's Corner is the online home of Non-Fiction Picture Books Round I judge and returning Cybil-ite Carol Wilcox, a literacy coach and reading intervention teacher in Colorado. One of our illustrious teacher-bloggers, she posts children's book reviews and regularly participates in Poetry Friday. A couple of months ago, Carol posted a review of Cybils Non-Fiction Picture Books finalist (get ready …

If you haven't visited Jen Robinson's Book Page, the blog of our utterly wonderful Cybils Literacy Evangelist and generally indispensable source of information Jen Robinson, then you're missing out on one of the best resources in the kidlitosphere. She's a great friend, an excellent reviewer, and a tireless advocate for children's and YA books. Last summer she reviewed a copy …

Mary Ann Scheuer of the blog Great Kid Books is well-known in the kidlit blogging world for her well-organized, neatly categorized reviews of books and for regular participation in Nonfiction Monday as well as other events. As a librarian, her goal in blogging is to help parents find great books for their kids. Mary Ann is also a Round II …