The nice folks at ForeWord magazine, which caters to independent publishers, have been featuring many Cybils folks on their blog, Shelf Space. This month, it’s Liz Burns’ turn, and her first post is on how to make reading fun for kids, especially in light of the recent NEA finding that we’re reading less as a nation. She’s already garnering comments–go …

One of our esteemed Poetry judges, Gregory K. from GottaBook, is perhaps best known as the inventor of the Fib poem, based on the Fibonacci mathematical sequence of 1,1,2,3,5,8,13…(basically, you keeping taking the last two numbers and adding them together to get the next in the sequence). Fibs are the subject of a feature story at the Poetry Foundation, which …

If you’re like me and the very mention of "The Wiggles" makes you twitch, you’ve no doubt already discovered Stefan Shephard’s blog for children’s music, Zooglobble. He’s a Cybils fan too and has sent some traffic our way. He knows a thing or two about awards. He (and some other kids music writers) just concluded Fids and Kamily, a list …

Our own Eisha Prather is guest blogging this month for ForeWord, which features reviews of "good books independently published." For her first post, she confesses to a fascination with mental illness (we’re not drawing any conclusions, really) and reviews several YA titles with clinically depressed characters. Several of these books have already been nominated for the Cybils: Someday This Pain …

A big shout-out for Jen Robinson, our YA organizer, for a mention in the Orlando Sentinel’s blog, Parent Place, today. Here’s what they had to say, plus they link to our press release.