Today we’d like to send a thank-you out to Penguin Canada, who not only blogged about their two Cybils nominees (scroll down about a fourth of the way down the page for the entry) on their Today at Penguin page, but also added the Cybils nomination to the individual book pages for Camp X: Trouble In Paradise (an MG Fiction …
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Tell Me a Secret by Holly Cupala
Kelly Jensen of the blog Stacked (tagline: "Librarians. Reviews. Mayhem.") describes herself as "a compulsive consumer of all things books and blogs." She's a youth services librarian in Wisconsin, and was a Round II Judge for YA Fiction last year. This year she's bringing her expertise to the Round I panel. A few months ago, Kelly wrote an in-depth review …
Better Know a Panel #2: Easy Readers and Early Chapter Books
Today's panelist Q&A comes to us courtesy of Anastasia Suen, category organizer for the Easy Readers and Early Chapter Books category. Anastasia asked her panelists–and herself–a question truly worthy of the unabashed book enthusiasts we all are around here at the Cybils: The Easy Reader – Early Chapter Book panelists are reading books that help kids learn how to read. …
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Henry Aaron’s Dream by Matt Tavares
Doret Canton of the Happy Nappy Bookseller blog is one of our Round I judges for Nonfiction/Information Picture Books this year. As you might have guessed, Doret's a bookseller, and she contributes as well to the blog Color Online, which highlights work by women writers of color. Doret is also a baseball fan, and one of the Cybils nominees she …
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Brain Camp by Susan Kim
Kim Baccellia is not just a Round I judge for the Graphic Novels category, she's been a Cybils panelist since our very first year, 2006. She's also the author of two novels (Earrings of Ixtumea and Crossed Out) and a blogger at the excellent website Young Adult Books Central, where she reviews a range of MG and YA books. One …
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Borrowed Names by Jeannine Atkins
Laura Purdie Salas, one of our Round I Poetry judges, is a familiar face at the Cybils and well-known around the Kidlitosphere. An accomplished writer in her own right (and author of 2009 Cybils Poetry nominee Stampede), she also posts prompts for 15 Words or Less Poetry and is a frequent participant in Poetry Friday. One of the poetry nominees …
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Review Haiku from Emily Reads
If you've never visited Emily Mitchell's blog Emily Reads, you're in for a treat (and may, quite possibly, lose several minutes of productivity in your day). Emily's a Round II judge for Elementary/MG Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and she specializes in amusing and pithy review haiku. Her blog features review haiku for a range of books from children's to adult books, …
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Art & Max by David Wiesner
Today's featured review comes from kidlitosphere fixture Travis Jonker: blogger at 100 Scope Notes, elementary school librarian, returning Cybils panelist, School Library Journal contributor and occasional cartoonist (here's a fun example featuring one of our other Cybils nominated titles). Travis reviewed Fiction Picture Books nominee Art & Max by David Wiesner earlier this year. Wiesner, who won a Caldecott medal …
Better Know a Panel #1: Nonfiction Picture Books
Remember those amazing panelist roundtables we posted to the blog a couple of years ago? Today, we’re kicking off a new set of Q&As with our panelists, complete with a fresh new title. Okay, well, it’s not new so much as “borrowed” from Stephen Colbert’s “Better Know a District” feature, but hey–immature artists copy, mature ones steal, right? Or something. …
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The Shadow Hunt by Katherine Langrish
We've been giving Charlotte Taylor some love here on the blog thanks to her fab entry for the Cybils Challenge, so why stop the love now? At her blog Charlotte's Library, she takes an in-depth look at a range of sci-fi and fantasy books for children and teens, which makes her a perfect choice for our Fantasy and Sci-Fi Round …