Our entree today is Chicken Spaghetti, with a special order of poetry dished out by Susan: J. Patrick Lewis’s Blackbeard, the Pirate King wins the award for longest subtitle: "Several Yarns Detailing the Legends, Myths, and Real-Life Adventures of History’s Most Notorious Seaman." A pirate fan’s delight, needless to say. My second-grader and I loved the swashbuckling art. Read the …
Nominating Committee Procedures
Are you wondering how The Cybils nominating committees will conduct their work? Then this post is for you. Judging criteria will be posted next week. Committee Organizer supervises the full list of nominations from The Cybils website, which includes: Making sure a book has been nominated in the correct category. If a book has not been nominated in the correct …
Review of the Day: Carrot Soup
While we wait for the nominations to close, the Cybils team brings you Reviews of the Day. We pluck a title from the nominations and give it a read. Today, Kelly Herold (Big A little a) reviews Carrot Soup, by John Segal. Carrot Soup is nominated in the Picture Book Fiction category. The hero of John Segal‘s Carrot Soup is …
We make the Orlando Sentinel!
A big shout-out for Jen Robinson, our YA organizer, for a mention in the Orlando Sentinel’s blog, Parent Place, today. Here’s what they had to say, plus they link to our press release.
The Cybils judges
Ever wonder what it takes to judge a literary award? Us too. Even as volunteers rolled in, we weren’t quite sure what to tell them. Some things we do know: Judging starts after the Top Five are announced on January 1; Judging ends, uh, at a date to be announced later, probably early February; Judges are expected to read all …
FAQs
You asked (griped, whined, hollered) — we heard. Here’s a few questions that have come my way: 1. Which books are eligible?Any children’s or YA book published in English in 2006, including translated and bilingual books. 2. How do I nominate a book? Type them into the comments section under each category. Categories are listed to your right, or scroll …
The nominating panels
You can feel safe knowing your lists of nominees will go to our trusty panelists, who will then have a good chuckle at your expense, toss your suggestions and vote for their best friends. Scared ya, didn’t I? The panelists are the finest group of unrepentent bookworms and kidlit fetishists to ever set their sticky fingers on a keyboard. What, …
Welcome to the Cybils
Just a friendly reminder from the Cybils team to nominate only one book per category. Thanks all.
Graphic Novels
From Babymouse to American Born Chinese, it’s been quite a year. Graphic Novels use both words and pictures to tell a story; and that story can be anything; superheroes, coming-of-age stories, historical fiction or non-fiction. Since a Graphic Novel can be just about anything — middle grade, young adult, funny, sad — what makes a great one? A great story; …
Non-fiction (Picture Books)
It’s a whole lot easier to say what these books aren’t — fiction — than to say what they are, because there’s so much that they can be. The universe is big and time is long, and every year writers and illustrators immerse themselves in the truth and sweat the details to put more of it within the grasp of …