Round 1 Sandy Brehl Unpacking Picture Book Power @pbworkshop and @SandyBrehl Earl Dizon www.earldizon.com @EarlDizonWriter Carrie Butler Becker Other Women’s Stories Nancy Bo Flood The Pirate Tree Sarah Prineas Prairie Lights Kids @sprineas Carol Wilcox Carol’s Corner @carwilc Reshama Deshmukh Stacking Books @stackingbks Round 2 Heidi Bee Roemer Steam Powered Poetry @poetweet4 D. …
2019 Cybils Panelists and Judges: Easy Reader/Early Chapter Books
Round 1 Kelly Karsner Clark Kidlit Underground @kidlitundrgrnd Sheri Howard Lobit Education Village Library Mindy Rhiger Proper Noun @mindyreads Kathy Ellen Davis www.instagram.com/wheeliegoodbooks/ and www.instagram.com/kathyellendavis/ @kathyellendavis Pam Jones Nill pjonesnill.com @pjonesnill Mary Kate Bolinder The Story Garden @the_storygarden Patricia Timbrook www.patriciatimbrook.wordpress.com @PATtimbrook Round 2 Claire Noland http://afieldtriplife.com/ @claire_noland Miranda Rosbach Bookbloom @bookbloom Terry Doherty thereadingtub @thereadingtub Lauren Bercuson …
2019 Cybils Panelists and Judges: Fiction Picture Books and Board Books
Round 1 Valerie Byrd Fort Library Goddess @librarygoddess Kirsti Call Kirsti Call/Writer’s Rumpus @kirsticall Nicole Levesque Bluestocking Thinking (Blog and Instagram) @BlueSockGirl Maria Marshall The Picture Book Buzz & STEM Tuesday @MariaMarshall_ Deb Nance Readerbuzz @debnance Lynne Marie Pisano My Word Playground / Literally Lynne Marie @Literally_Lynne Cheryl Vanatti Reading Rumpus @cherylvanatti Round 2 Jana Eschner JanaTheTeacher @JanaTheTeacher Jilianne Hoffmann …
Last Chance to Sign Up to Be a Cybils Panelist/Judge!
Today’s the LAST day to apply to join the Cybils team!! You know you don’t want to miss this chance to join in the fun!! Go here for more information. And watch this space next week for the reveal of our panelists and judging teams!
2018 Cybils Winners!
As always, many many thanks to our round 2 judges and our category chairs as they read and discussed and worked to decide this year’s winners. Without further ado, here they are: Board Books Llamaphones by Janik Coat Harry N Abrams Nominated by: ChristaS This is an ingenious tactile and visual board book, that utilizes bold colors, simple shapes, and …
REVIEW: H Is For Haiku
Welcome to our last featured blog review of the Finalist judging period! Today’s featured review comes from longtime Cybil-ite, former category organizer, and Round 2 judge Jone MacCulloch, who blogs at Check It Out. A few months ago, she reviewed Poetry finalist H Is For Haiku: A Treasury of Haiku from A to Z, written by Sydell Rosenberg and illustrated …
REVIEW: The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
Happy Friday! The featured finalist review for today on the Cybils blog is a book from the Middle Grade Fiction category: The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty. Round 2 judge Jaymie Dieterle, a former elementary school librarian who blogs at The Neverending TBR, reviewed this book last year: Crummy things happen at school. People don’t understand Lucy’s compulsions …
REVIEW: The Faithful Spy
Today’s featured review was posted on YA Books Central a few months ago by category organizer and Junior/Senior High Nonfiction judge Karen Yingling, a middle school librarian who also blogs at Ms. Yingling Reads. Ms. Yingling reviewed Senior High Nonfiction finalist The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix: The Faithful Spy is very …
REVIEW: The Prince and the Dressmaker
Our featured review for today comes from Cybils veteran and Graphic Novels Round 2 judge Kim Baccellia, an author and blogger who is also a staff reviewer at YA Books Central. Last year, she reviewed Young Adult Graphic Novels finalist The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang: Lush illustrations set in Paris are the backdrop where two very unlikely …
REVIEW: Peek-a-Who?
We’re returning to the Board Books category for today’s featured review, which introduces finalist title Peek-a-Who? by Elsa Mroziewicz. The reviewer is Ami Jones, a Round 1 judge, youth services librarian, and, amazingly, a recent kidney donor, who blogs at A Mom’s Spare Time. About the book, she said: Normally when patrons ask me where the “lift the flap books” …