A Sad Day

The children's and YA literature community has suffered a major loss: today we found out that Lisa Wolfson, perhaps better known to us as author L.K. Madigan, has lost her battle with pancreatic cancer. Earlier this year, she shared the difficult news in a heartfelt blog post. Today, her agent and friend Jennifer Laughran posted a memorial to her, including …

More Cybils Love

Our winners aren't the only ones who've been posting lovely things about the Cybils during these heady post-announcement days: Kelly Jensen of Stacked, one of our Round I panelists for YA Fiction, wrote a fantastic and well-worded blog post on Why the Cybils Matter, saying: "If you want a good slice of what the best books of the year were …

Sharing the Cybils Love

As always, we're truly tickled to see the reactions of our Cybils-winning authors and illustrators. Check out what some of them have said over the past few days since the announcement: YA Fiction winner Swati Avasthi tweeted: "HOLY WOW! SPLIT RECEIVED THE #CYBILS AWARD YA (Is it a bird? is it a plane? No, it's an author with a CYBILS award in …

RIP Margaret K. McElderry

The children's book community suffered a great loss this week with the passing of legendary editor and publisher Margaret K. McElderry. In her long career as a children's book editor, she edited Newbery and Caldecott winners and brought us such influential books as The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper and The Borrowers series by Mary Norton. She was …

Now Open: 2010 Cybils Awards Store!

We've got something special on offer this year: Cybils stickers and high-res graphics for award winners! Cybils stickers are nice, shiny, embossed and metallic, just like you'd expect an award sticker to be. The high-resolution graphics are available in your choice of file formats, suitable for full-color printing on future print runs as well as promo materials. Authors, illustrators, publishers, …

Cybils on TV

Many thanks to Katie Davis, a judge in our Fiction Picture Book category, for mentioning us on her segment on Channel 8 in Connecticut. Katie's segment aired on Sunday and we gave her special permission to unveil the winner in her category early. I think this makes us officially famous, right? Anyway, here's the link to her piece. Oh, and …

Welcome to the Cybils Awards

We just announced our 2010 Winners. Check out the full list of finalists. More about us here.

Winners of the 2010 Cybils Awards

Once again, it's our pleasure to bring you our picks for the titles of 2010 that combined literary merit with kid appeal. That's the secret sauce that makes a child or teen want to pull it off the shelf (or download it onto their gizmo of choice) and not move/eat/sleep/breathe until the last page is turned. After the jump you'll …

Are You Ready For It?

I know we're on tenterhooks around here, just bursting with the news–to be revealed TOMORROW!–of this year's Cybil Award winners. I hope you're as excited as we are. If you need a refresher, Elaine Magliaro of Wild Rose Reader, one of our Round I Poetry judges, has put together a really nice roundup post with handy links to all the …

REVIEW
The Kneebone Boy by Ellen Potter

Kyle Kimmal, one of our Round I judges for Middle Grade Fiction, blogs at The Boy Reader. He's a third grade teacher, so he looks at a lot of books of interest to younger readers, but he also reviews other titles of interest to boys. (And getting more boys to read is definitely a good thing!) Kyle recently posted about …