I happen to love awards. All the awards. I like following the hype and buzz and then seeing if my favorite (or one I’ve at least seen or read) wins. So, I suppose, it’s no surprise that one of my favorite things to do every year is compare the Cybils outcome and see how they fared against the “big” awards, the ALA Youth Media awards. Interestingly enough, the Cybils and the ALA awards have only matched up once: with The Graveyard Book, which won the Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction (back before we were calling it that) award and the Newbery that year. Other than that, we have a good track record of picking winners as finalists, and many of our winners have ended up as honor books.
I’ve picked ten of my favorites that have showed up on both lists. Enjoy!
–Melissa Fox, Book Nut
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
(Middle Grade Graphic Novel winner, 2015)
Won a Newbery Honor, 2016
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
(YA Speculative Fiction finalist, 2015)
Won the Printz award, 2016
El Deafo by Cece Bell
(Middle Grade Graphic Novel winner, 2014)
Won a Newbery Honor, 2015
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
(Middle Grade Fiction finalist, 2014)
Won the Newbery Medal, 2015
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
(Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative fiction finalist, 2012)
Won the Newbery Medal, 2014
Me…Jane by Patrick McDonnell
(Fiction Picture Book winner, 2011)
Won a Caldecott honor, 2013
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
(YA Speculative Fiction finalist, 2010)
Won the Printz award, 2012
Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
(Fiction Picture Book winner, 2010)
Won a Caldecott honor, 2012
The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
(Fiction Picture Book finalist, 2009)
Won the Caldecott Medal, 2010
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
(Young Adult Fiction winner, 2008)
Won a Printz honor, 2009