Thanks to Tracy Grand at JacketFlap, our new Cybils widget is here! Isn’t it purty? (I’ll pause a moment so you can nod enthusiastically.) Just like in past years, it shows off a different nominated title whenever you refresh the page, and you can even customize it to show just your favorite genres. It comes already loaded with our Amazon …
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Meanwhile by Jason Shiga
If you've never visited Betsy Bird's blog A Fuse #8 Production, then you're missing out on one of the pillars of the kidlitosphere. No jive. Now housed on the prestigious School Library Journal website, Fuse #8 examines children's books in illuminating and entertaining detail, as well as covering other topics related to the world of children's literature. Betsy is a …
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Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
Wild Rose Reader's Elaine Magliaro has been a longtime Cybils advocate and participant, and this year she's on our Round I Poetry panel. A former elementary school teacher and school librarian, she's a children's poet in her own right, and posts some of her own work to her blog as well as blogging about children's poetry books and resources. Earlier …
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Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher by Laurel Snyder
Jennifer Wharton is a Round I Judge for Fiction Picture Books this year, though you may remember her from last year's Easy Readers and Short Chapter Books panel. Jennifer is a Youth Services Librarian in Wisconsin and she blogs about books and library programs at Jean Little Library, which is named for her personal collection of over 2,000 books. Earlier …
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Brain Jack by Brian Falkner
Undusty New Books is the blog of Round I Fantasy and Sci-Fi judge Hallie Tibbetts, a literature event planner and former teacher who loves to read and review young adult books. In addition, she's a volunteer for Narrate Conferences, a nonprofit organization that puts on fun events like…oh, a conference or two about Harry Potter, just to name one example. …
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Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! by Grace Lin
Today's featured review comes from Julie Jurgens of Hi Miss Julie!, a children's librarian and former early childhood teacher in the Chicago area as well as a Round I Judge in the Easy Readers and Early Chapter Books category. On her blog, Julie talks about books, materials and library services for children and teens. Last week, Julie reviewed Cybils Easy …
We’ve Been Immortalized in Poetry!
How often does anyone get to say they've had an ode written about them? Forget the Grecian urn–the Cybils have now been immortalized in a poem by NFPB Round I judge Doret Canton of The Happy Nappy Bookseller. We present it to you forthwith: Nonfiction picture booksStrewn about my placeAll in the name ofChildren's and Young Adult Bloggers Literary AwardsKnown …
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My Life as a Book by Janet Tashjian
Jennifer Donovan is a Round 1 Judge for Middle Grade Fiction this year. Besides blogging at her own site, Snapshot, she's the managing editor at 5 Minutes for Books, an online community featuring reviews of books for all ages, giveaways, thoughts on reading and plenty more. Jennifer was also a participant in our Cybils Challenge last month, and she's our …
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Candy Bomber by Michael O. Tunnell
Karen Ball, one of our Round I judges for Middle Grade/Young Adult Nonfiction, is a middle school teacher in Connecticut. She blogs at Mrs. B's Favorites, where she reviews a plethora of books for the MG and YA age group. She's been going strong with a whole slew of reviews of nominated NFMG/YA titles, including Candy Bomber: The Story of …
Thanks, Penguin Canada!
Today we’d like to send a thank-you out to Penguin Canada, who not only blogged about their two Cybils nominees (scroll down about a fourth of the way down the page for the entry) on their Today at Penguin page, but also added the Cybils nomination to the individual book pages for Camp X: Trouble In Paradise (an MG Fiction …