It’s Nov 21 and nominations for The Cybils are now officially closed. Longlists of nominated titles are trickling in and we’ll be posting them all by the week’s end.
First up–Non-fiction Picture Books. Chris Barton of Bartography has coordinated the Non-fiction Picture Books category, a job much more complicated than it first appeared. Think about it: What is Non-Fiction, especially in the Picture Book category? After much haggling, discussion and consideration, a longlist of 40 titles resulted. And here it is:
Non-fiction Picture Books
3-D ABC: A Sculptural Alphabet
written and illustrated by Bob Raczka
Milbrook Press
A Place for Butterflies
written by Melissa Stewart; illustrated by Higgins Bond
Peachtree
Aliens Are Coming!: The True Account Of The 1938 War Of The Worlds Radio Broadcast
written and illustrated by Meghan McCarthy
Knopf
Almost Gone: The World’s Rarest Animals
written and illustrated by Steve Jenkins
HarperCollins
American Slave, American Hero: York of the Lewis And Clark Expedition
written by Laurence Pringle; illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright & Ying-Hwa Hu
Calkins Creek
An Egg Is Quiet
written by Dianna Aston; illustrated by Sylvia Long
Chronicle Books
An Island Grows
written by Lola M. Schaefer; illustrated by Cathie Felstead
Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins
Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters
written and illustrated by Robert Sabuda & Matthew Reinhart
Candlewick Press
Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth
written by Nicola Davies; illustrated by Neal Layton
Candlewick Press
George Did It
written by Suzanne Tripp Jurmain; illustrated by Larry Day
Dutton Books
Great Estimations
written and illustrated by Bruce Goldstone
Henry Holt
Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook
written by Georgeanne Brennan; illustrated by Dr. Seuss
Random House
Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas
written by Cheryl Bardoe; illustrated by Jos. A Smith
Abrams
Honky-Tonk Heroes & Hillbilly Angels: The Pioneers of Country and Western Music
written by Holly George-Warren; illustrated by Laura Levine
Houghton Mifflin
The Illustrator’s Notebook
written and illustrated by Mohieddine Ellabbad
Groundwood
I’m a Pill Bug
written by Yukihisa Tokuda; illustrated by Kiyoshi Takahasi
Kane/Miller
It’s Not the Stork!: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends
written by Robie H. Harris; illustrated by Michael Emberley
Candlewick Press
Little Lost Bat
written by Sandra Markle; illustrated by Alan Marks
Charlesbridge
M Is for Masterpiece: An Art Alphabet
written by David Domeniconi; illustrated by Will Bullas
Sleeping Bear
The Magic School Bus and the Science Fair Expedition
written by Joanna Cole; illustrated by Bruce Degen
Scholastic
Mama
written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter
Harcourt Children’s Books
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor
written and illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
written by Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Jump At The Sun
Near Mama’s Heart
written and illustrated by Colleen Newman
Trafford
Nobody Gonna Turn Me ‘Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
written by Doreen Rappaport; illustrated by Shane W. Evans
Candlewick Press
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin
written and illustrated by Gene Barretta
Henry Holt
Oh, Rats! The Story of Rats and People
written and illustrated by Albert Marrin
Dutton Books
Our Seasons
written by Grace Lin and Ranida T. Mckneally; illustrated by Grace Lin
Charlesbridge
Owen & Mzee: The True Story Of A Remarkable Friendship
written by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff & Paula Kahumbu; illustrated by Peter Greste
Scholastic
Perfect Timing: How Isaac Murphy Became One of the World’s Greatest Jockeys
written by Patsi B. Trollinger; illustrated by Jerome LaGarrigue
Viking
Selvakumar Knew Better
written by Virginia L. Kroll; illlustrated by Xiaojun Li
Shen’s Books
The Story of Salt
written by Mark Kurlansky; illustrated by S. D. Schindler
Putnam
Su Dongpo: Chinese Genius
written and illustrated by Demi
Lee & Low Books
The True Story of Stellina
written and illustrated by Matteo Pericoli
Knopf
This Jazz Man
written by Karen Ehrhardt; illustrated by R.G. Roth
Harcourt Children’s Books
What Athletes Are Made Of
written and illustrated by Hanoch Piven
Atheneum/Ginee Seo
What Is Science?
written by Rebecca Kai Dotlich; illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa
Henry Holt
What the Sea Saw
written by Stephanie St. Pierre; illustrated by Beverly Doyle
Peachtree
Wildfire
written and illustrated by Taylor Morrison
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine
The World’s Greatest Elephant
written by Ralph Helfer; illustrated by Ted Lewin
Philomel
If a Dolphin Were a Fish
written by Loran Wlodarski; illustrated by Laurie Allen Klein
Sylvan Dell