We considered ourselves wildly fortunate to land some impressive volunteers our first year out. Inevitably, a few decided not to return this year. But in the case of Loree Griffin Burns, we can’t be too sad; after all, she’s back as a finalist in nonfiction MG/YA books. Fiona Bayrock at Books and ‘Rocks had a major advantage going into her …
INTERVIEW WEEK: Barry Lyga talks about his, erm, “Toy”
We’re nominating Barry Lyga as our personal Boy Toy. Can we do that? He’s super-smart, his most recent book has gotten rave reviews and a berth on the Cybils’ YA short list, plus, y’know, he’s really hot. Today’s feature interview is culled from Becky’s Book Reviews, where he reveals that he pays no attention whatsoever to Cybils or any other …
INTERVIEW WEEK: Tune in to Cybils finalists
Tired of waiting for the big announcements? Want to put an end to that K-nuffle Bunny pronunciation debate? Or get the scoop on those spotless New York City backdrops? Pop over to the Just One More Book! children’s book Podcast and listen in as the hilarious and modest Mo Willems shares his thoughts on "playing" books, hiking bears and the …
INTERVIEW WEEK: Mo Willems & Mother Reader — together again
It’s interview week here at Cybils, and we’re bringing you the best Q&A tidbits from around our cozy corner of the blogosphere. What more fabulous way to start off than revisiting the great romance of MotherReader and Mo Willems? Though we could probably shorten that to just Mo’ R and Mo W by now. She’s been practically cyberstalking the kidlit …
Meet Erin McIntosh
We rely heavily on word-of-blog to spread the Cybils gospel, and few have been more enthusiastic than Erin Marie McIntosh from Miss Erin, one of only three teens among our volunteers. She was one of our inaugural members, serving on last year’s Fantasy/Science Fiction panel, and she’s back this time on Middle Grade fiction. Today’s she’s the featured interview at …
Go say ‘hi’ to Camille
Camille Powell from BookMoot is today’s interviewee over at 7-Imp. Her blog’s about to turn four. Wow. She’s lending her expertise to the nonfiction MG/YA judges this year. Cool interview tidbit: she’s a quilter, and is learning to knit socks. Check it out.
Cybils podcast
Andrea of Just One More Book!! podcasting fame (read more about her here and here) has posted an interview with the other panelists on the nonfiction picture book list. Have a listen.
Just One More Andrea!!
If it weren’t for Andrea Ross, we’d have a wee bit more difficulty calling ourselves an international contest. She’s Canadian (please, no "eh" jokes) and she’s a panelist on our non-fiction picture books committee. Those fine bloggers at 7-Imp have profiled her today, and reveals why she started every kidlit bloggers’ favorite podcast: I’m crazy about kids’ books, Mark’s crazy …
About Kelly Herold
We saved the best for last! Today we introduce our Director, Kelly Herold: Kelly here. I’m a co-founder of the Cybils (along with Anne Boles Levy) and this year during our second annual awards process I’ll be filling an organizational role only. I’ll be dealing with our troublesome (just kidding! Love you guys) blogger volunteers and serving as the publisher …
About Sheila Ruth
Today we meet Sheila Ruth, our Fantasy/Science Fiction organizer: I started reading Science Fiction in the fourth grade and never looked back. From Madeleine L’Engle, I quickly moved on to Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Andre Norton, Frank Herbert, and many others. When a teacher loaned me her copy of The Lord of the Rings in fifth grade, I fell …