If you’ve been part of or followed the CYBILS Awards over the years, you know that we love to chat about great books for kids and teens. We share our judges reviews, we post new releases, we get recommendations. We love it all! Over the years, our judges tell us that one of the reasons they volunteer is because they …
A #CYBILSAWARDS Milestone
In 2005, a group of bloggers put their heads together and created an award. Back then, blogs were the go-to way to share reviews and recommendations, so, book bloggers were judges. A lot has changed over these last 18 years, including our name. We’re not (just) bloggers, we’re Book Lovers! What hasn’t changed is our passion to connect readers with …
New Feature: CYBILS Awards 📚🎶
We are excited to introduce our newest blog feature: Book Playlists! This idea has been on our drawing board for quite some time, and being able to start creating them is, well, music to our ears. Our goal is to publish a Book Playlist for a CYBILS Awards finalist or winner every 6-8 weeks. Each post will feature one book …
#CYBILS2022: An Invitation to Share
Dear Reader, First, thank you for all you do to connect young readers with books representing them and their worlds. Since you are here, you already know that celebrating and amplifying inclusive books for children and teens is near and dear to our hearts. With the 17th annual CYBILS Awards about to get underway, we want to ensure that our …
#Cybils2022 Idea Boards are here!
Last summer we launched the first-ever CYBILS Awards Idea Boards using padlet.com. Our goal: create a place where readers can share their favorite recent reads. Books they can’t stop talking about. Titles they want other readers to discover for themselves. Books they think might have some award-worthy potential. The Idea Boards turned out to be not just a place to …
#KidsLoveNonfiction Campaign Begins Today
We will be announcing the 2021 Cybils Awards winners later today, but we could not let today go without supporting something near and dear to our hearts: Nonfiction for Young Readers. This morning, Mary Ann Cappiello, Professor of Language and Literacy at Lesley University, and Xenia Hadjioannou, Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the Harrisburg campus of Penn …
The 2021 Cybils Finalists!
We get to this point every year, where we’re revealing the finalists, and every year we say the same thing: we are supremely grateful for our volunteers who read tons and tons of books over the past two and a half months. It sounds trite, but we really do mean it! Without the people reading and logging and discussing and …
Ways to Help Cybils Out Through the Holidays
It is probably well known that everyone at the Cybils — from our Board President to our judge volunteers — is freely giving their time without being paid for it. We are a grass-roots, volunteer organization and no one takes any payment for their services. However, that doesn’t mean the Cybils are expense-free. We have site hosts and domain names …
Now Read This! #Cybils2021 Needs You
As we mentioned in our last post, what powers the CYBILS Awards is a passion to engage kids and teens with amazing books that have just the right balance of literary merit and kid appeal. By extension, that means igniting the spark that creates a love of reading. Easy Readers and Early Chapter books are the stories that bring the …
It’s a Fact: #Cybils2021 Needs You
The heart of the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards (aka CYBILS Awards) is a passion for engaging kids and teens with amazing books, and, by extension, igniting or rekindling the spark that is a love of reading. We know it isn’t just our passion, it’s yours, too. It’s why you work to … fill your library with books …