View this photo Are you SO devoted to the Cybils that you want a logo without a year so that it is always in style and appropriate? Like a classic suit or little black dress, these logos are perfect for any situation. I'm thinking that a double chocolate sheet cake with a Cybils decal might just make my weekend. There's …
Meet the Organizers: Jen Robinson, Literary Evangelist
Jen Robinson is always on the lookout for great books. Throughout studying engineering in college and graduate school, she could often be found browsing the children's section of libraries and bookstores. She now works in the semiconductor industry, and reads and reviews children's and young adult books in her spare time. She also reads many picture books and early readers …
Meet the Organizers: Jackie Parker, YA Fiction
In this space you would normally be told a witty story about how young adult literature came to be important to Jackie and why she volunteers a significant portion of her life to the Cybils every year since its inception. But this year, Jackie is the mother of a three-month-old, her first, and really doesn't have time for clever bios. …
Meet the Organizers: Karen Yingling, MG Fiction
A middle aged, middle school librarian from the Midwest, I've been blogging since 2006 at Ms. Yingling Reads. I was on the Cybils' middle grade science fiction/fantasy panel in 2010, middle grade fiction panel in the 2011, and became the MG Fiction organizer last year. My next step is to use my evil minions and take over the world! Or …
Meet the Organizers: Anne Levy, Overlord
Our lovely Cybils Overlord and co-founder Anne Levy is known by many names: Cybils Sherpa, Cybils Editor, O Mighty One. Normally you can see her blog posts right here on the Cybils blog, but this year she's on a bit of a hiatus as her superhuman organizational skills are bent to the task of molding young minds as a 6th …
Meet the Organizers: Terry Doherty, Easy Readers/Early Chapter Books
To hear my 11-year-old tell it, I'm weird. I wear it as a badge of honor. Maybe its weird that I only read books for audiences under the age of 13 … but given the breadth and sincerity of the Kidlitosphere, I don't think so! For ten years – thanks to the generosity of authors and publishers – The Reading …
Meet the Organizers: Jone MacCulloch, Poetry
Jone contributes each Friday to the Poetry Friday community. She also interviews and features poets on a monthly basis. During the school year, she’s a teacher librarian and the rest of the time she’s either writing haiku and other poetry, or playing with her camera. Her passion for poetry is shared with her students and staff and on her two …
Meet the Organizers: Jennifer Wharton– Nonfiction Elementary/Middle Grade
Jennifer is excited to be chairing the newly revised Nonfiction Elementary/Middle- Grade category in her second year as a category chair. She has now been a Cybils panelist for four years and is continuing her plans to take over the book world one non-fiction title at a time. When not obsessively reading and reviewing for her two blogs, Jean Little …
Meet the Organizers: Gina Ruiz, Young Adult Nonfiction
Gina Ruiz is the only surviving Nonfiction chair/organizer. Those who came before her perished in the flames of the Dark Arts…well okay they didn’t PERISH, they just kinda disappeared and didn’t wanna be a DADA person anymore (I think). Gina’s survived because she’s too mean and wicked to let the Dark Arts that is a Nonfiction panel nor its inferiority …
Meet the Organizers: Sheila Ruth, YA Speculative Fiction
Sheila Ruth is happy to have found her tribe in the Cybils. Where else can she geek out about children's literature with other people who get it? She has been with the Cybils since the beginning, and has worn several different hats over the years: Category Chair, Publisher Liaison, and developer of the Cybils database, but her favorite part is reading and …