I’m having trouble wrapping my brain around the idea that this is the 9th Cybils Awards. It began with a snarky remark on a friend’s post that maybe us smarty-pants blogger types should start our own literary awards. And here we are, still pinning virtual ribbons on authors and illustrators, and still snarking away. I’m returning to active Cybils duty …
Cybils Welcomes New Organizers
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, …
Cybils App Organizer Interviews Author William Joyce
The organizer for the Cybils Book App category, Mary Ann Scheuer, just posted a fabulous interview on her blog with William Joyce, author of The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. Mary Ann also shares a speech that William Joyce gave about his inspiration for the story, which is currently number one on the New York Times Bestselling Children's Picture Books list. The …
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. …