Kids are curious about the world around them and nonfiction is the perfect way to introduce them to that amazing world. History? Biography? Art? Science? Math? Animals? Sports? It’s all here and more besides! We love text and illustrations or photographs that will wow kids and adults alike and topics so fascinating that kids will want to go digging for …
Category Description: Easy Reader/Early Chapter Books
The Easy Reader / Early Chapter Book category of the Cybils covers the whole spectrum of titles for early elementary kids who are learning to read, from the very basic books for emergent readers to longer, illustrated titles for kids who are not quite ready for novels. What we’re looking for in easy reader nominations are leveled readers with controlled …
Category Description: Board Books
Just say the phrase “board book” and you’re bound to hear an “awww” or a “that’s so cute!” It happens in my house all the time (even with the teenager)! We share these books with our youngest readers to be. These are our child’s first stories – at playtime, before nap, and as bedtime stories. Opening a board book to …
Category Description: Fiction Picture Books
Colorful. Beautiful. Funny. Poignant. Amazing. Pick your word. These are the stories – with and without words – that can capture our hearts and mind, whether we are two or 92! Fiction Picture Books are a show and tell art form. They introduce young readers to their worlds, present and past; take us on fantastic journeys, real and imagined; offer …
Cybils 2017: Young Adult Speculative Fiction Judges
Round 1 Tanita Davis Finding Wonderland @tanita_s_davis Rebecca Smith-Allen The Winged Pen @RebeccaJ_Allen Lexie Cenni For the Sake of Reading @PRationality Karen Jensen Teen Librarian Toolbox @tlt16 Kimberly Francisco Stacked @kimberlymarief Sheila Ruth Wands and Worlds @sheilaruth Stephanie Charlefour Love. Life. Read. @scharle4 Round 2 Pam Margolis An Unconventional Librarian @Pamlovesbooks Wendy Gassaway Falconer’s Library @WendyGassaway C. Lee McKenzie C.Lee …
Cybils 2017: Young Adult Fiction Judges
Round 1 Kim Baccellia Si, Se Puede YA Books Central @ixtumea Kelly Hager KellyVision @Khager Jenn Hubbs Lost in a Great Book @lostingreatbook William Polking Guys Lit Wire @polking Haley Schaffer Teachers Who Read @hale27storm Pam Thompson Young Adult Books What We’re Reading Now @PThompson_EMS Round 2: Dahlia Adler B&N Teen Blog @MissDahlELama Rebecca …
Cybils 2017: Junior/Senior High Nonfiction Judges
Round 1 Rebecca Aguilar Rebecca G. Aguilar @RebeccaGAguilar Anne Bennett My Head is Full of Books @headfullofbooks Louise Capizzo Nonfiction Detectives @lcapizzo Heidi Grange Geo Librarian @GeoLibrarian Julie Jurgens Hi Miss Julie! @himissjulie Round 2 Danyelle Leach Bookshelves in the Cul-de-Sac Thomas Maluck Richland Library @liberrytom Katy Manck Books YA Love @booksyalove Helen Murdoch Helen’s Book Blog @hcmurdoch Jennie Rothschild …
Cybils 2017: Graphic Novels Panelists
Round 1 Corrina Allen Books Between Podcast @corrinaaallen Alyssa Feller The Shady Glade Kristin Harvey The Book Monsters @bookgoil Benedict Hutchinson A Goblin Reviews Graphic Novels Mel Schuit Let’s Talk Picture Books @spiky_penelope Christa Seeley Women Write About Comics @christasbooks Alysa Stewart Everead @everead Round 2 Phil May ReadItDaddy @readitdaddy Ardo Omer Ardo Omer @ardoomer Sarah Stevenson Finding Wonderland @aquafortis …
Cybils 2017: Poetry Judges
Round 1 Sandy Brehl Unpacking the Power of Picture Books @PBWorkshop @SandyBrehl Janeane Davis Janeane’s World @janeanedavis Nancy Bo Flood The Pirate Tree Irene Latham Live Your Poem @irene_latham Jone Rush MacCulloch Check It Out @JoneMac53 Tricia Stohr-Hunt The Miss Rumphius Effect @missrumphius Bridget Wilson What Is Bridget Reading? @bridgetrwilson Round 2 Linda Baie TeacherDance @LBaie Joy Acey Frelinger Poetry …
Cybils 2017: Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Judges
Round 1 Sherry Early Semicolon @semicolonblog Melissa Fox Book Nut @book_nut Katherine Kramp alibrarymama @alibrarymama Debbie Tanner The Book Search @imtanner2 Charlotte Taylor Charlotte’s Library @charlotteslib Round 2 Mark Buxton Say What? Halli Gomez The Winged Pen @Ninja_writes Jenna Grose Falling Letters @fallingletters Rosemary Kaladitis MomReadIt @roesolo Brenda Tjaden Log Cabin …