Cybils Welcomes New Organizers

Photo of Blog Editor Melissa Fox

Please join us in extending a warm welcome to the newest members of the Cybils Organizing Team: Melissa Fox from Book Nut | Blog Editor Cathy Potter from The Nonfiction Detectives | Book Apps Category Chair Katie Fitzgerald from Story Time Secrets | Easy Reader/Early Chapter Books Category Chair Stephanie Charlefour from Love. Life. Read | Young Adult Nonfiction Category Chair Melissa, Cathy, Katie, and Stephanie join returning …

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 Jen Robinson, Literacy 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. Said spare time is in short supply these days, …

Meet Jen Robinson, Literacy Evangelist

Jen Robinson divides her time between running around after her daughter, Baby Bookworm, and running her company, FabTime. FabTime is a small software firm that does reporting for companies that make computer chips. Baby Bookworm is a small person who cackles gleefully as she pulls the bookmarks out of books. When her responsibilities to Baby Bookworm and FabTime allow, Jen …

Introducing Jen Robinson, Literacy Evangelist

As a child, Jen Robinson pretty much always had a book in her hand. Yes, even when she was swimming out to a raft in the middle of a lake (holding the book up high with one hand). Yes, even when she was climbing trees (with three younger brothers and sisters, she had to take quiet spots where she could …

Introducing Jen Robinson, Literacy Evangelist

The panels of Round I and II judges are rapidly taking shape, and we'll be announcing those soon! In the meantime, we're going to start introducing the Cybils '09 organizing team. Today, we meet Jen Robinson, our hardworking Literacy Evangelist: I'm Jen Robinson, and I've been blogging for nearly 4 years at Jen Robinson's Book Page. My blog is dedicated …

Jen Robinson at Shelf Space

Jen Robinson is guest blogging at Foreword magazine's Shelf Space through the month of November.  The most recent post talks about her role as literacy evangelist for the web's most popular (okay, only) kidlit awards.  Here's a sample: I believe that the Cybils short lists (5 to 7 titles per category) are an amazing resource. Great titles, vetted by people …

Introducing Jen Robinson, Literacy Evangelist

Today we meet Jen Robinson, our official Cybils Literacy Evangelist: I’m Jen Robinson, and I’ve been blogging for nearly 3 years at Jen Robinson’s Book Page. My blog is dedicated to helping parents, teachers, and librarians to encourage kids to enjoy books. To that end, I publish mostly book reviews (picture books through young adult) and literacy and reading news. …

About Jen Robinson

Today we introduce Jen, our Middle Grade and YA Non-Fiction organizer: Although my passion is reading and writing about children’s books, I’m actually an engineer by training, with advanced degrees in Industrial Engineering. I co-own a small software company, where I primarily manage sales, marketing and training. On my frequent business trips, I can usually be found reading children’s and …