There are some really neat board books nominated in our brand-new Board Books category, and today’s featured review looks at one that is sure to spark fun discussion between kids and parents: An Incomplete Book of Awesome Things by Wee Society. The review is from Kate Unger, Round 1 judge in Fiction Picture Books/Board Books and blogger at Mom’s Radius. …
REVIEW: The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde
What a mouthful of a title–and this hilarious book (the third in a series) promises much more than a mouthful of satisfaction. Today’s featured blog reviewer, Sondra Eklund, wrote about The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale, illustrated by LeUyen Pham, earlier this year and gave it a stellar review. Sondra is …
REVIEW: Salt to the Sea
Today’s featured review is from Round 1 YA Fiction panelist Kelly Hager, an avid reader from Baltimore who blogs at KellyVision (tagline: “That’s what she read.”). Earlier this year, she read and reviewed YA Fiction nominee Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys, author of Between Shades of Gray. This novel, also set in WWII, got a thumbs up from …
REVIEW: Dark Energy
I am proud to note that today’s featured review comes from my co-blogger over at Finding Wonderland, YA author Tanita S. Davis, who is a Cybils veteran and Round 1 YASF panelist. Just last week she reviewed YA Speculative Fiction nominee Dark Energy by Robison Wells, which sounds like an intriguing sci-fi adventure with aliens and a biracial main character: …
REVIEW: Moo: A Novel
Cybils veteran Adrienne Gillespie is a Round 2 judge this year in our new Audiobooks category, but this former librarian from Portland, OR reviews a wide variety of children’s and YA books on her blog Books and Bassets. Recently she reviewed verse novel Moo by Sharon Creech, a nominee in the Poetry category. According to the review: “This is a …
REVIEW: Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear
Today’s featured review looks at this year’s Caldecott Medal winner, which is a also nominee in Juvenile and Elementary Nonfiction: Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear, by Lindsay Mattick and illustrated by Sophie Blackall. The review comes from Round 1 panelist Carrie Waterson of the IndyPL Kids’ Blog at the Indianapolis Public Library. She read …
When Cybils Judges Hit the Big Time
Former Cybils judge and founder of the Nerdy Book Club, Colby Sharp, has just landed a book deal with Little, Brown. From the Publisher’s Weekly story: Sharp is going to expand on the importance of reading and writing by editing an interactive anthology, The Creativity Project, which Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has bought for publication in 2018. The …
REVIEW: Ms. Bixby’s Last Day
Our featured review for this first Wednesday in November is a nominee for Middle Grade Fiction, reviewed by Round 2 judge Greg Pattridge. Greg is a teacher, mentor, and writer who blogs about MG books at (what else) Always in the Middle. Over the summer, he reviewed Ms. Bixby’s Last Day by John David Anderson, the author of Sidekicked and …
REVIEW: White Sand, Vol. 1
Happy Halloween! In between pumpkin carving and candy eating and other festive behavior, why not check out today’s featured review? It’s from Round 1 Graphic Novels judge Alexandra Cenni, aka Lexie, who is one half of the blogging team at For the Sake of Reading. Her favorite genre is fantasy, and one of her recent reads from earlier this year …
REVIEW: Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion
Our featured blog review of the day comes from Joanne Roberts, a Round 1 panelist in Elementary and Juvenile Nonfiction. Joanne blogs at Bookish Ambition, and she is a children’s illustrator and writer herself. Last month, for Perfect Picture Book Friday, she posted about Fiction Picture Books nominee Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex T. Smith. In …