Need gift-shopping ideas for your favorite children's and YA book enthusiasts? Let the Cybils help! You can start by checking over the full list of nominations, but if that seems daunting, a number of Cybils folks and bloggers around the kidlitosphere are putting together book recommendation lists for the holidays, including, of course, a host of excellent Cybils nominees. There's …

We've met Kelly Fineman, children's poet, writer, and blogger at Writing and Ruminating, a few weeks ago when we posted her co-review (with 7-Imp Jules) of Frankenstein Takes the Cake. This week, we're featuring one of her solo reviews posted at her LiveJournal blog, where she reviews children's books in addition to, well, ruminating about writing. This fall, Kelly looked …

Bet you didn't know that Tricia Stohr-Hunt, one of our Non-Fiction Picture Book panelists and creator of the blog The Miss Rumphius Effect, was once employed to test dog biscuits for fat content. No jive. She's also a professor and a mom, enough to qualify anybody for the title of Superwoman. Maybe that's why she decided to review Boys of …

You might not know Jill Tullo by name, but her blog is sure to ring a bell if you've cruised around the kidlitosphere–The Well-Read Child is her forum for getting kids to read, from little ones to young adults: "I feature book reviews, reading tips, and learning activities you can use to help instill the joy of reading in your …

YA writer and reviewer Kim Baccellia, who blogs at LiveJournal as well as reviewing at Enchanting Reviews, is no stranger to the Cybils–last year she was part of the nominating panel for Fantasy and Science Fiction (along with yours truly) and this year she's joined us again as a panelist for Middle Grade Fiction. She is the author of a …

Nettle is the online handle of one of our Fantasy and Sci-Fi panelists, but she also identifies herself as "Hunter and Bagger of the Elusive Snark" on her blog, The Puck in the Midden. She posts excellent reviews there as well as at Cabinet des Fées: A Fairy Tale Journal, which is where today's review is from. She's also associated …

Kara Dean of Not Just for Kids is our blogger of the day, as well as a panelist for this year's Easy Readers category. Since August of 2007, Kara–a children's librarian, writer, and reviewer–been posting about her favorite books and other happenings in the children's lit world under the moniker of Children's Literature Guru. Earlier this month, the Guru reviewed …

YA-loving denizens of the kidlitosphere will no doubt be familiar with The YA YA YAs–Trisha, Gayle, and Jolene have been blogging since March of 2007 over at WordPress, where they post about everything that YA literature fans and YA librarians could want. News, reviews, fiction, non-fiction–these three Young Adult librarians have it covered. Today's review comes from Trisha, who cites …

One of this year’s Cybils panelists in the Graphic Novels category is Sam Musher of Parenthetical.net. According to the header graphic, her blog contains “Musings and snark about YA lit, libraries, and geekdom, from an overly opinionated middle school librarian.” Sam also posts book lists and book reviews of literature for kids and teens–and had a truly kick-butt Halloween costume …