Our poetry category organizer Kelly Fineman tipped us off to a wonderful interview with this year's Cybils Poetry winner Joyce Sidman over at 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast. Joyce is the author of 2009 Poetry winner Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors as well as 2007 Poetry winner This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness. …
Aww, You’re Making Us Blush
Shout it from the rooftops: authors love the Cybils! We are so flattered and grateful at the nice things our finalists and winners have been saying on their blogs and websites, and we thought we'd link to a few of the latest posts here. Among the authors sharing the love are: YA Fiction winner Courtney Summers MG Fantasy and Sci-Fi …
The Cybils Are SLJ-Fabulous!
We couldn't be more flattered by Rocco Staino's fabulous article about the Cybils posted at School Library Journal this morning. He leads in by talking about our Short Chapter Books winner Bad to the Bone by Lucy Nolan, but he goes on to talk about all of our wonderful winning titles as well as giving props to tireless Cybils Admin …
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The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
Lori Calabrese is not only a Round II judge for the Fiction Picture Books category, she's an author in her own right–of Oh! The Possibilities and the forthcoming The Bug that Plagued the Entire Third Grade. On her blog, she posts about children's books, writing, literacy, and more from the perspective of an author, mother, and–of course–a reader. One of …
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Adventures in Cartooning
I always feel a little weird tooting my own horn on the Cybils blog, but I had to share my review of two of our Cybils graphic novel finalists–little did I know, when I wrote about both of these in the same post, that they'd end up on the short list and I'd have to evaluate them as a Round …
The Inside Scoop on Nominees, Part III
We've got two more blurbs for you, our inquiringly-minded readers, giving you a sneak peek at what it was like for our Round I judges to narrow down such a fantastic (and, in some cases, fantastically huge) field of nominations. Today, check out the story being Fantasy and Science Fiction and Fiction Picture Books. Sheila Ruth, Fantasy and Science Fiction: …
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African Acrostics: A Word in Edgeways
Tricia Stohr-Hunt, Round I Poetry judge and blogger at The Miss Rumphius Effect, describes her site as "[t]he blog of a teacher educator discussing poetry, children's literature and issues related to teaching children and their future teachers." But it's so much more than that–including a regular home for Poetry Friday and the Poetry Stretch, an incredible agglomeration of booklists…you'll just …
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I Can’t Keep My Own Secrets
Alicia Blowers, a middle school librarian, is also known as the LibrariYAn on her blog, where she regularly reviews YA titles as well as participating in Nonfiction Monday. She's one of our Round I judges for Middle Grade and YA Non-Fiction this year. Earlier on in the Cybils process, Alicia took a look at NFMG/YA finalist title I Can't Keep …
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Mermaid Queen by Shana Corey
Carol's Corner is the online home of Non-Fiction Picture Books Round I judge and returning Cybil-ite Carol Wilcox, a literacy coach and reading intervention teacher in Colorado. One of our illustrious teacher-bloggers, she posts children's book reviews and regularly participates in Poetry Friday. A couple of months ago, Carol posted a review of Cybils Non-Fiction Picture Books finalist (get ready …
Cybils Love from Finalist Authors
It always makes our day to read a great and truly Cybils-worthy book. But when we've made an author's day, then, well, I guess it makes our week or even our year! We've brought together some of our favorite author love posts from after the finalist announcement so that we can say some collective thank-yous for all the flattering mentions: …