Eisha here. Around here we’ve started referring to Steve Jenkins as "Mr. Cybils." His name crops up on three of our shortlisted titles: as illustrator of Vulture View by April Pulley Sayre (Non-fiction Picture Book) and of Animal Poems by Valerie Worth (Poetry), and as author/illustrator of Living Color (Non-fiction Picture Book). But Mr. Jenkins is no stranger to accolades. Since …
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Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst
Sarah at Reading YA: Readers’ Rants has whipped our Graphics Novel list into shape as organizer, turning in a superb batch of finalists despite endless hassles locating wayward copies of books. As you might suspect from her blog’s title, she loves books pitched to teens, and recently read Into the Wild (from our fantasy short list) about Rapunzel’s daughter, Julie: …
Steve Jenkins is in the house
Okay, he’s in my house (Anne here). I mean, not physically here, amid the pile of books and debris, but inside my laptop. It’s probably really cramped in there, especially him being an illustrator of THREE finalists this year. Jules of 7-Imp‘s gone and interviewed him for us and now he’s happily waiting inside my hard drive until I can …
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Lightship by Brian Floca
Get your brand-new blogging trend right here: non-fiction Mondays. It’s the brainchild of Anastasia Suen and we thought we’d join the fun. Chris Barton’s the go-to guy for this genre, with a blog that revels in the variety and depth of the picture books out there on every conceivable topic. Plus, he’s got two of his own due out soon …
Cybils goes Barefoot
We have another new sponsor–we’ll get a commission from Barefoot Books if you buy from them online. Just click this here button: … or this one: … and shop one of the hippest independent publishers around. We can thank one of their "stallholders" Richele Baburina for her generosity in setting this up for us. How cool is that? (And, hey, …
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One Thousand Tracings, by Lita Judge
Chris Barton = Non Fiction. He’s a writer–of Non-fiction, bien sur–and has been blogging about writing and all things Non Fiction at Bartography since June of 2005. So when we put together our nominating and judging panels for the 2007 Cybils, we went knocking at his (virtual) door. Non-fiction needed Chris, and thank goodness for us he joined the team.
Meet Erin McIntosh
We rely heavily on word-of-blog to spread the Cybils gospel, and few have been more enthusiastic than Erin Marie McIntosh from Miss Erin, one of only three teens among our volunteers. She was one of our inaugural members, serving on last year’s Fantasy/Science Fiction panel, and she’s back this time on Middle Grade fiction. Today’s she’s the featured interview at …
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Pssst! by Adam Rex
It’s rare that an author gets Cybils nominations in back-to-back years, rarer still that they show up twice in the same year. In fact, there’s only one: the singular Adam Rex. Last year, he made the short list for his poetry collection, Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, which he also illustrated. This year, Rex makes two separate finals, in Fantasy/Science Fiction …
REVIEW: Tasting the Sky by Ibtisam Barakat
Perhaps few kidlit bloggers have penned more words about their passion than Betsy Bird, better known as Fuse #8. Her popular blog moved to the School Library Journal‘s website earlier this year, where she’s kept up a torrent of reviews, news and witty commentary. Her search for a Palestinian perspective on the Middle East led her to Tasting the Sky, …
Go say ‘hi’ to Camille
Camille Powell from BookMoot is today’s interviewee over at 7-Imp. Her blog’s about to turn four. Wow. She’s lending her expertise to the nonfiction MG/YA judges this year. Cool interview tidbit: she’s a quilter, and is learning to knit socks. Check it out.