Round 1 Tess Eggleston-Alfonsin The Reading Countess on GoodReads Matt Esenwine Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme @MattForrestVW Margaret Simon Reflections on the Teche @MargaretGSimon Tricia Stohr-Hunt The Miss Rumphius Effect @missrumphius Anastasia Suen #kidlit Book of the Day @AnastasiaSuen Sylvia Vardell PoetryforChildren @SylviaVardell Ellen Zschunke On the Shelf 4 Kids @ontheshelf4kids Round 2 Alex Baugh Randomly Reading @randomlyreading Julie Larios The …
2019 Cybils Panelists and Judges: Middle Grade Fiction
Round 1 Shannon Griffin Picture Books to YA Brenda Beikert Goodreads Pamela Thompson Books by Pamela @MostlyMcLeod Julie Williams Reading by the Pond @juliewilliams89 Stacy Mozer It’s All About the Journey @SMozer Rajiv Ganesan Rajiv’s Reviews and YouTube @RajivsReviews Genevieve Ford @GenevieveFord1 Round 2 Jamie Dieterle The Never-ending TBR @justjaymied @Neverending_TBR Gina Reba Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers @GRgenius Mark Buxton …
2019 Cybils Panelists and Judges: Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction
Round 1 Sondra Eklund Sonderbooks @Sonderbooks Jennifer Miller RaiseThemRighteous @jlmiller516 Beth Mitchell Imaginary Friends @BMitchellBooks Debbie Tanner The Booksearch @imtanner2 Charlotte Taylor Charlotte’s Library @charlotteslib Round 2 Jenna Grose Falling Letters @fallingletters Rebecca Herzog Sloth Reads @slothreads Nicole Hewitt Feed Your Fiction Addiction @NicoleMHewitt Rosemary Kiladitis Mom Read It @roesolo Benjamin Martin Tales of an Elementary School Librarian @mrbenjimartin
2019 Cybils Panelists and Judges: Elementary/Middle Grade Non-Fiction
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 …