REVIEW: Fake Blood

It’s almost Halloween! In the spirit (see what I did there?) of the spooky season, today’s featured blog review looks at YA Graphic Novels nominee Fake Blood by Whitney Gardner. Round 1 judge John Mutford reviewed this one earlier in the month on his blog The Book Mine Set: AJ is newly starting grade six. Internally, he compares himself unfavourably …

REVIEW: The Bear in My Bed

Our featured blog review for today comes from Round 1 Fiction Picture Books/Board Books judge Deb Nance, a librarian and avid reader from Texas who blogs at Readerbuzz. Earlier this month, she reviewed Board Books nominee The Bear in My Bed by Joyce Wan. In her review on Goodreads, she said, A little boy discovers that a bear has moved …

REVIEW: Dactyl Hill Squad

Today’s featured nominee is from the Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction category: Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel Jose Older. Greg Pattridge, a Cybils veteran and Round 2 judge in Middle Grade Fiction, reviewed this book a couple of days ago on his blog, Always in the Middle: [T]his interesting new series combines fantasy and real life events for readers. It’s a …

REVIEW: The Secret Life of the Little Brown Bat

We’re rapidly approaching Halloween, so here’s a nominee in the Elementary Nonfiction category that is relatively on topic: The Secret Life of the Little Brown Bat written by Laurence Pringle and illustrated by Kate Garchinsky. Featured by Round 1 Elementary/Middle Grade Nonfiction judge Roberta Gibson on her Growing With Science blog, this should be an appealing title for readers aged …

REVIEW: Fish Are Not Afraid of Doctors (Maud the Koala)

Welcome to our first featured blogger book review of the 2018 Cybils season! Yay! If you’re new to Cybils, all you have to do to get our book review posts in your inbox is sign up for our Books newsletter (scroll down to the bottom of the blog and the signup window will pop up)–it’s that easy. Three times a …