Emma Carbone, also known as the cleverly named Miss Print, is one of our Round II Fantasy & Sci-Fi YA judges this year, but she reads widely beyond just the speculative fiction category. She also blogs widely–namely for the New York Public Library, where she works, and the Why Libraries Project, to name a few examples. One of her recent …

You may know Susan Thomsen because she's our category organizer for Middle Grade and YA Nonfiction, or you may know her because of her excellent blog about books and life (and sometimes chickens), Chicken Spaghetti. OR, you might have seen her yearly Mother of Booklists to End All Booklists, also known as the Big List of Lists of the Best …

Natasha Maw of Maw Books is in her second year as a Round I Judge on the Fiction Picture Books panel. Besides being an extremely prolific book blogger whose posts range from reviews and interviews to giveaways and even recipes, Natasha's list of accomplishments also includes being a photographer, a Master Gardener, and a mom to two young boys. Recently, …

If you've been following the Cybils for a few years, you'll no doubt be familiar with returning Cybil-ite Leila Roy of Bookshelves of Doom, who is a Round I Judge for Science Fiction and Fantasy (YA). Besides her thoughtful and humorous book reviews, Leila also hosts The Big Read (sort of a virtual reading discussion group), contributes reviews to Guys …

Today's featured review comes from one of our new volunteers this year, Jeff Barger. Jeff, who blogs at NC Teacher Stuff, is a kindergarten teacher and one of our Round I Judges for Easy Readers and Early Chapter Books. On his blog, you'll find reviews of quality library books as well as a wealth of online instructional resources for teachers. …

You've already been introduced to our Fiction Picture Books category organizer, Pam Coughlan, aka MotherReader. No doubt you're already familiar with her through one of her reading or commenting challenges, or one of her hilarious recurring blog features like Bloggers Against Celebrity Authors (BACA). But what makes MotherReader a Mother Reader? Well, that would be TeenReader. We're happy to report …

Lori Calabrese is not only a Round II judge for the Fiction Picture Books category, she's an author in her own right–of Oh! The Possibilities and the forthcoming The Bug that Plagued the Entire Third Grade. On her blog, she posts about children's books, writing, literacy, and more from the perspective of an author, mother, and–of course–a reader. One of …

I always feel a little weird tooting my own horn on the Cybils blog, but I had to share my review of two of our Cybils graphic novel finalists–little did I know, when I wrote about both of these in the same post, that they'd end up on the short list and I'd have to evaluate them as a Round …

We've got two more blurbs for you, our inquiringly-minded readers, giving you a sneak peek at what it was like for our Round I judges to narrow down such a fantastic (and, in some cases, fantastically huge) field of nominations. Today, check out the story being Fantasy and Science Fiction and Fiction Picture Books. Sheila Ruth, Fantasy and Science Fiction: …

Tricia Stohr-Hunt, Round I Poetry judge and blogger at The Miss Rumphius Effect, describes her site as "[t]he blog of a teacher educator discussing poetry, children's literature and issues related to teaching children and their future teachers." But it's so much more than that–including a regular home for Poetry Friday and the Poetry Stretch, an incredible agglomeration of booklists…you'll just …