REVIEW: A Curse Dark As Gold

Miss Erin's blog has been a well-known corner of the kidlitosphere since January of 2006, and since then she's posted numerous excellent book reviews, author interviews, and other thoughts on writing and reading. She also happens to be one of the Postergirlz for Readergirlz, as well as our youngest Cybils judge. Recently, Miss Erin reviewed one of the finalists for …

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Houndsley and Catina and the Quiet Time

Andi, aka Cloudscome, describes herself as "a librarian posting about multiculti kid's books, poetry, knitting, my garden and gluten free cooking." She blogs at A Wrung Sponge, and she was also a nominating panelist for this year's Cybils Easy Readers category. Earlier this winter, Cloudscome reviewed a very wintry sort of book, finalist title Houndsley and Catina and the Quiet …

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Wabi Sabi

If you're looking for in-depth and thoughtful reviews of children's books, you'll want to check out the blog 100 Scope Notes, the online home of Fiction Picture Books nominating panelist Travis Jonker. He's an elementary school librarian, and about his blog name, he says "Scope notes help to clarify the meaning of a term or instruct on its usage. 100 …

Review….Haiku??

Today’s review of the day is actually several reviews by the same blogger, Emily Mitchell of Emily Reads, who sometimes reviews books in…haiku. Yep, that’s right–three-line, pithy, sometimes funny, sometimes truly gorgeous poems about books, including some of our Cybils finalists for 2008. Though Emily’s technically a judging panelist for Non-Fiction Picture Books, her review haiku cover a range of …

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Life Sucks

Gail Gauthier is the author of several books for children and middle-grade readers, but she's also a blogger at Original Content, where she writes thoughtfully on a number of writing-related topics as well as posting reviews. She's been doing it since…get ready…2002! Wow. This year, Gail is on our Graphic Novels judging panel. Recently, Gail reviewed a finalist for the …