Don't forget that if you're a winning author or illustrator (or publisher of such, or even a bookseller selling the winning titles), you can buy shiny golden Cybil Award Winner stickers to put on your book covers. To the right is a picture of what these gorgeous things look like, and you can buy them right here in our Cybils …
Cybils Finalists Recognized in International Book Awards
Some good news today for Cybils SFF finalist titles from international authors: Karen Healey's Guardian of the Dead is a finalist in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, and Plain Kate by Erin Bow is a finalist for the Canadian Library Association's 2011 Book of the Year for Children Award. Congrats to Erin and Karen on earning additional well-deserved …
Writers and Bloggers Are Stepping Up
…to help those affected by the recent earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan. Via Galleycat, author Maureen Johnson has launched an online fundraiser with Shelterbox to help out earthquake victims in Japan, similar to the one that she organized for New Zealand. Check out the details here on Maureen's blog. Zoe Toft of the Playing by the Book blog, and …
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.