In the interest of full disclosure, the blogger I'm featuring today has become one of my best virtual friends. We wouldn't have met (okay, we still haven't met, technically) but for Cybils. That's not why I'm putting the spotlight on her blog, though. Tanita Davis has been with us from the start, sifting the wheat from the chaff for the …

Every year at Cybils we comb through our judges' blogs looking for book reviews. Or we comb through the lists of books looking for reviewers. Either way, we kill two birds with one stone by highlighting both a nominee and one of our bloggers. For the first review of the 2011, we're showing off our newest genre, Book Apps, and …

Kyle Kimmal, one of our Round I judges for Middle Grade Fiction, blogs at The Boy Reader. He's a third grade teacher, so he looks at a lot of books of interest to younger readers, but he also reviews other titles of interest to boys. (And getting more boys to read is definitely a good thing!) Kyle recently posted about …

Today's featured review comes from Tasha Saecker's long-running blog Kids Lit, which has been active since 2003. Tasha, who is the director of the Menasha Public Library in Wisconsin, is an old hand around the Cybils, and she's been a category organizer as well as a judge. She reviews everything from board books to YA novels, and this year she's …

Jone MacCulloch is our category organizer for Nonfiction and Information Picture Books, so of course she reads a lot of great Cybils-worthy titles and blogs about them at Check It Out. She's a regular participant in Nonfiction Monday and Poetry Friday, and also blogs about life from the perspective of an elementary school librarian. One of her recent Nonfiction Monday …

I'm so happy to see this one as a finalist that I'm going to do something a little gauche and post a link to my own review on Finding Wonderland, the YA literature and writing blog I share with author and fellow Cybils judge Tanita S. Davis. (Bonus fact of the day: Hope Larson will be doing the graphic novel …

Tess Goldwasser, aka Ms. Tess, is a blogger at the Kid's Book Blog, which is a readers advisory blog updated and maintained by the children's staff of St. Mary's County Library in Maryland. She's a children's librarian, and she's also a Round II judge in Fiction Picture Books this year. Back in December, Tess reviewed what she deemed her favorite …

The blog Mrs. B's Favorites is the online home of Karen Ball, who is so prolific at quick, informative reviews that we've decided to feature her again on the Cybils blog. Karen is a middle school teacher and a Round I judge for Middle Grade/YA Nonfiction. Back in November, she reviewed several Cybils finalists-to-be, including The Dark Game: True Spy …

Today's featured review comes courtesy of Wild Rose Reader's Elaine Magliaro, Round I Poetry panelist and children's poet in her own right. And the review is rather special, since the Cybils finalist author in question is Joyce Sidman–not only is she a past Cybils winner, she's got two–count 'em, TWO–titles on the finalist list this year. Way back in the …

A mom and a bookseller, Tanya Zavestoski Turek has been blogging since 2008 at Books 4 Your Kids, where she highlights amazing but possibly overlooked children's books, especially picture books and chapter books. This year she's a Round II judge for Elementary and Middle Grade Fantasy and Science Fiction. Recently, Tanya reviewed SFF finalist Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes, …