Every year at Cybils we comb through our judges' blogs looking for book reviews. Or we comb through the lists of books looking for reviewers. Either way, we kill two birds with one stone by highlighting both a nominee and one of our bloggers. For the first review of the 2011, we're showing off our newest genre, Book Apps, and …
The 2011 Cybils
Welcome to the sixth annual Cybils Awards. Nominations are now closed and our first-round judges have begun their reading period. Short lists come out on New Year's Day 2012 and the winners will be posted on Valentine's Day 2012. Meantime, read more about us. If you like us and believe in what we're doing, please consider clicking on the "donate" …
Bookmarks #(*&%!!
Bad news for those who ordered bookmarks. The printer isn't shipping them until Oct. 24th. They were originally set to ship Oct. 3rd. No reason given why. I still have all your addresses and will get them to you as soon as they're in my grubby paws. Apologies.
Shine vs. Chime
By now, hardcore bibliophiles know the controversy over the mysterious sixth nomination to the National Book Awards. To make a long story short, the Young Peoples Literature category first came out last week with five nominees and then a sixth was added just afterward. Well, here's a sorry update about playing telephone, grown-up version. Wouldn't you know that the judges …
Thanks for joining us!
Nominations are now closed for the 2011 Cybils Awards. Thanks to all who nominated a book. We're still sorting through more than 1,100 titles behind the scenes. For those worried about having nominated a book in the wrong category — fear not. We'll figure out where it's supposed to go. As long as it was nominated by midnight last night …
Time is running out …
… to nominate a book for the 2011 Cybils. You have until 11:59 pm Pacific time tomorrow to let us know what new titles combine literary merit and kid appeal. Look over our nominations and see if there isn't something missing. We have a little over a thousand nominations as of this writing (Thursday afternoon). And wouldn't you know, nearly …
My bad, mea culpa and oopsie
Oh noes! I did a bad thing. I posted some alternate Cybils logos that didn't belong to the person I thought. I stole them from the Finding Wonderland blog, which is quite wonderful in all respects, and its bloggers are wise and wondrous women in all ways. The top three on my post are indeed by the esteemed Sarah Stevenson, …
Take us to your favorite indie bookstore!
We'd like to start a new feature soon. We'd love it if Cybils fans would send us some snapshots of your favorite indie bookstore and tell us a few things you love about the place. It's got that hawt emo guy behind the counter who always says hi in that way of his. Or they always seem to know what …
What’s cooking?
Our nonfiction for teens & tweens organizer, Gina Ruiz, is up for the Latism 2011 award for best food blog. Here's her blog, Dona Lupe's Kitchen, now show her some love and vote for her.
A few brief words about poetry
Part of a series introducing each genre, written by the organizer. From words that rhyme, words that flow and shape emotions on all different topics to poetic forms, the Poetry Genre is home to a veritable stew of entries. These books will appeal to the very young, middle grade and/or young adults. What belongs in Poetry? Poetry anthologies written by …