The Cybils team has, of course, been thrilled at the Cybils-themed graphics that we received from Mo Willems and from the Rapunzel's Revenge team of Shannon and Dean Hale and Nathan Hale (see the images in the posts below). But we are equally thrilled by these other author and media responses to the Cybils: The Cybils award was mentioned in …
More Graphic Cybils Love
Jack and Rapunzel of Cybils GN winner Rapunzel's Revenge–aka Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, and Nathan Hale–have graced us with not just a fabulous page of comics ALL ABOUT US (click the comic to view larger), but have also said we're their favorite awards. Hooray! Looks like we're all in a celebratin' mood. Thanks, Shannon, Dean, and Nathan!
Belated Dedication
I was in such a frantic rush to edit the winners' list and get it posted that I never wrote a dedication. I decided to post it somewhat belatedly, if you all don't mind.
It looks like we made somebody very happy …
Thanks to Mo Willems, the winner in our Easy Reader category. We're sending the love back atcha, Mo!
The 2008 Cybils Winners
Read on for the 2008 Winners
REVIEW
Ain’t Nothing But a Man
Carol Wilcox of Carol's Corner is one of our nominating panelists for Middle Grade and Young Adult Non-Fiction, and throughout the whole process she's been blogging about some of her favorite nominees and writing detailed, thoughtful reviews. One of those reviews was of finalist title Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry, by Scott …
REVIEW: A Curse Dark As Gold
Miss Erin's blog has been a well-known corner of the kidlitosphere since January of 2006, and since then she's posted numerous excellent book reviews, author interviews, and other thoughts on writing and reading. She also happens to be one of the Postergirlz for Readergirlz, as well as our youngest Cybils judge. Recently, Miss Erin reviewed one of the finalists for …
REVIEW
Houndsley and Catina and the Quiet Time
Andi, aka Cloudscome, describes herself as "a librarian posting about multiculti kid's books, poetry, knitting, my garden and gluten free cooking." She blogs at A Wrung Sponge, and she was also a nominating panelist for this year's Cybils Easy Readers category. Earlier this winter, Cloudscome reviewed a very wintry sort of book, finalist title Houndsley and Catina and the Quiet …
REVIEW
Wabi Sabi
If you're looking for in-depth and thoughtful reviews of children's books, you'll want to check out the blog 100 Scope Notes, the online home of Fiction Picture Books nominating panelist Travis Jonker. He's an elementary school librarian, and about his blog name, he says "Scope notes help to clarify the meaning of a term or instruct on its usage. 100 …
Review….Haiku??
Today’s review of the day is actually several reviews by the same blogger, Emily Mitchell of Emily Reads, who sometimes reviews books in…haiku. Yep, that’s right–three-line, pithy, sometimes funny, sometimes truly gorgeous poems about books, including some of our Cybils finalists for 2008. Though Emily’s technically a judging panelist for Non-Fiction Picture Books, her review haiku cover a range of …