The Brown Bookshelf is one of those blogs that I'd long hoped would send us a judge or two. It's a group blog with a strong point of view and is written with verve and conviction. It's main goal is to showcase the many quality books for children and teens by African American authors and illustrators. This year, we're thrilled …

Would you believe that "Harold and the Purple Crayon" is out in a book app for iPad? Yes, of course you would. And it's just as good as you'd imagine it to be. Mary Ann Scheuer  of Great Kid Books is our very first organizer in this brand-new category, and she had a lot of fun with that legendary purple …

Another roundup of fiction picture books for you all. Honestly, this is such a huge category that it's nice to have a bunch of quickie reviews. Today's come from Dawn Mooney at My Thoughts Exactly. This is Dawn's third year with us, all of them on fiction picture books. She's pretty excited to be back and we're just as happy …

How could anyone resist a blog called Good Books and Good Wine? Blogger April Conant writes with verve and atty-tood about the books she loves (and there are a lot of them), so much so that it earned her a berth on our tween Fantasy & Science Fiction panel. April says she's twenty-something and a feminist, is in love with …

Jeff Barger's goal at NC Teacher Stuff is to help other educators like himself find the most helpful resources for their classrooms. He's joined us this year as a judge in book apps, and his reviews help readers assess how friendly the app would be for the littlest user. In reviewing an app by the "king of science books" Seymour …

Stacked blogger Kelly Jensen recently announced she's read her 230th book this year. If that's not enough to make the rest of us feel almost illiterate, then consider this: she also writes some of the meatiest reviews of those books ever committed to pixels. Don't click on her site if you're in a rush, unless you're bookmarking it for later. …

Take a sec to pat yourselves on the back, Cybilians (*pat*pat*), for being one of the first literary awards to go all multi-media while others were still saying "graphic what?" Alysa Stewart joins this forward-looking bunch of judges this year in Graphic Novels. She contributes to everead, just one of five blogs listed in her Blogspot profile (wow … Alysa, …

The rules about who can or can't judge for Cybils are designed to be flexible. Some people can maintain their blogging schedule the way marathon runners keep to a tight workout routine. We love those people, but we're not all marathoners. So Cybils isn't fussy about when you started your site. We're happy to make space for a blogger like …

We've been accused of having too many librarians here at Cybils. Is that actually possible? If we lost our librarians, we'd be missing out on people like Travis Jonkers, who brings a breezy, personable writing style to his book reviews. Travis blogs at 100 Scope Notes and also reviews for School Library Journal. Picture books are his specialty and he's …

Who better to highlight today for Fantasy & Science Fiction than our own illustrious Sheila Ruth? If you're a fan of the genre, you've probably already bookmarked her blog, Wands and Worlds. Sheila's one of Cybils' founders, signing up right after the idea was born. She's done a ton of stuff behind the scenes, but that would require several more …