We have gorgeous bookmarks in house.  They list all the 2008 Cybils winners and contact info for Kelly and myself, plus of course our website URL.  If you'd like me to send you an envelope of 30-40 or so, email me your name and address at anne (at) bookbuds (dot) net. I'll send more if you want.  I ordered 5,000 …

Carol Rasco at Reading Is Fundamental features the cover of another Cybils winner.  This week it's our Best Poetry book, Naomi Shihab Nye's "Honeybee." 

We're so pleased to have a friend in Carol Rasco, CEO of Reading is Fundamental.  I have a lot of childhood memories wrapped up with RIF.  They sent a bookmobile to a small park in my grandparents' Miami Beach neighborhood, where I spent many a happy summer.  I'd come back with a sunburned nose because I couldn't take it out …

What are you doing on April 16, 2009? Maybe celebrating the fact that tax day has come and gone…but once you're done with that, you might want to take part in Operation TBD 2009, in honor of Support Teen Literature Day. As part of a group effort by readergirlz, GuysLitWire, YALSA, and publishers, teen patients in pediatric hospitals across the …

We really wanted to make sure that all of our winning titles were featured on the Cybils blog in some way–and we also wanted to plug just a few more of our wonderful, hardworking, blogging volunteers–so here's one last roundup of reviews of Cybils-winning titles that haven't yet been featured here on the main blog. Fantasy and Sci-Fi category organizer …

My apologies to the Harper's Index. Total number of nominated books: 843 Percent read by at least one panelist: 98 Percent read by at least two panelists: 92 Number of winning authors and illustrators: 15 Cost, in dollars, of Lanier Classic Fountain Pen for each winner: 65 Page views on opening day, Oct. 1st, 2008: 4,942 Page views on Jan. …

The final version of our printer-friendly flyer is here! In convenient, compact form, this document lists all of our 2008 shortlisted titles (without blurbs), and includes the winners in boldface type at the top of each category list. As before, the front page of the flyer includes a description of what the Cybils are all about, nomination instructions, important dates, …

Jack and Rapunzel of Cybils GN winner Rapunzel's Revenge–aka Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, and Nathan Hale–have graced us with not just a fabulous page of comics ALL ABOUT US (click the comic to view larger), but have also said we're their favorite awards. Hooray! Looks like we're all in a celebratin' mood. Thanks, Shannon, Dean, and Nathan!

Thanks to Mo Willems, the winner in our Easy Reader category. We're sending the love back atcha, Mo!

Thank goodness the Cybils finalists were announced before all the ALA honorees, or someone would think we were copying them.  Sheesh!  Below is all the overlap I spotted.  Please correct me/make additions in the comments.  More discussion over the weekend as I have time to mull their choices, and what it says about our allegedly different criteria.  Hmmm. Newbery Medal …