First off, congrats! We adored I, Fly. Can you tell us a bit about how you came up with the idea for the book?Thank you! I’m so honored that CYBILS voters chose I, FLY among all the great nonfiction finalists! I got the idea for the story when I was walking through my kids’ school and saw that one of …
Interivew with Nova Ren Suma
First off, congrats! We loved The Walls Around Us. Can you tell us a bit about how you came up with the idea for the book?Thank you so much! I just want to say how incredibly honored I am that The Walls Around Us was chosen for a Cybil this year. Knowing these awards are selected by bloggers who read and support …
Interview with Joel Ross
First off, congrats! We adored The Fog Diver. Can you tell us a bit about how you came up with the idea for the book?It’s the same old story you’ve heard a hundred times: I was trying to write about pirate raccoons. I wasn’t making much progress though, until I went for a walk one morning in a misty field. The fog …
Interview with Julie Paschkis
First off, congrats! We adored Flutter and Hum. Can you tell us a bit about how you came up with the idea for the book?I started to learn Spanish when I was illustrating Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People which was written by Monica Brown. I illustrated that book with words and pictures and I fell in love with Spanish. …
Interview with MiniLab, Creators of Professor Astro Cat’s Solar System
First off, congrats! We adored Professor Astro Cat’s Solar System. Can you tell us a bit about how you came up with the idea for the app? Did one person take the lead, or was this a team effort? Thank you, we were so delighted to win a Cybils! The whole Professor Astro Cat story began with the book, Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers …
Would You Like to Help Contribute to the Cybils Blog?
You would? Terrific! We had such a good time with the book lists that were submitted last year, that we would like to run the feature again. We will begin in March, running posts once a week through the summer. What we need from you is a themed list (you can always follow the link to last year’s posts to …
The 2015 Winners: What’s Being Said
One of our favorite things is seeing all the happy people on Twitter after the Cybils announcements. Here’s a sampling of the love that’s been pouring out the past couple of days. Thank you so very much, @cybils committee. I am beyond honored. I'm just so thrilled, thank you! — Nova Ren Suma (@novaren) February 14, 2016 @JanaTheTeacher @JonArNoMore @cybils …
The 2015 Cybils WINNERS!
Happy Cybils Day! As always, we want to thank all our judges for their reading, discussing, and ultimately deciding on our fantastic winners. And to our organizers who rose to the challenge of wrangling said judges, making sure everything ran smoothly, on top of everything else that was going on in life. (Life, it does get in the way of …
Are you Ready??
For the announcement of the Cybils winners? We know we are! (Ready, that is. And definitely excited!) Stay tuned for the BIG announcement tomorrow. We can’t wait to share these terrific books with you!
Cybils at the ALA Youth Media Awards
I’m pretty sure you (like me) sat next to your computer (or maybe you were lucky and got to be at ALA Midwinter in Boston?) and eagerly listened to/watched the announcements of this year’s ALA Youth Media awards yesterday. It was exciting, and definitely full of surprises! As I watched the livestream, I couldn’t help but wonder how many of the books …