You know what Monday is around the Kidlitosphere, right? That's right, it's Nonfiction Monday! In honor of Nonfiction Monday, we're revealing the lists of panelists for our two NF categories. Without further ado, here are the devoted bloggers, writers, teachers and librarians who will be choosing this year's standouts in non-fiction and information picture books. Panel Organizer: Jone MacCulloch, Check …
The 2010 Poetry Panel
Well, what do you know? It's Poetry Friday. And in honor of Poetry Friday, we at the Cybils would like to announce our first panel of the 2010 awards–the Poetry panel. These enthusiasts and experts will ponder a wide range of poetry books for young readers: rhyming stories and lyrical blank verse, by poets famed and yet-to-be-discovered. Panel Organizer: Kelly …
A word about judging
It's the 15th as I write this, the official deadline to have signed up to judge for this year's Cybils. Even as I type, emails are flying back and forth between organizers about who goes where. It literally came down to the wire. At last count, more than 190 people volunteered for roughly 110 spots (give or take a few, …
2010 Call for Judges
Yes, it's that time of year, when we ask kidlit bloggers around the world to stop what they're doing and join us. It's going to be another crazy contest year, so we're again reminding everyone: judging is loads of fun work. For which we pay you tons nothing. you should skip skim read every word of this post here. you'll …
Behind the Cybils Poetry Scenes
If you're wondering what it takes to pick a fantastic finalist list like the one we had this year for Poetry, take a side trip over to panelist Bruce Black's Wordswimmer blog and check out his roundtable interview with the illustrious blogging and poetry-appreciating panelists: Kristy Dempsey, Kelly Fineman, Sylvia Vardell, and Tricia Stohr-Hunt. As Sylvia put it, "[poets] use …
The Best of the Best: A Cybils List-tacular
During the nominations reading period, hundreds of books were devoured and discussed by our faithful panels of Round I judges, so that we could bring you the fabulous list of Cybils finalists. In the process, a lot of our panelists generated their own lists of favorite books from 2009–not predictions, DEFINITELY not hints, and probably not prophecies, but certainly a …
Fantasy/Science Fiction Round 2 Panels
A note from SFF organizer Sheila Ruth: Since the Cybils was founded four years ago, the number of nominations has increased dramatically each year. Back in that first year, Fantasy/Science Fiction was one unified category, with only 88 nominations in the entire category. By the second year, Fantasy/Science Fiction selected two groups of finalists, one for the elementary/middle age group …
Cybils Bloggers Nominated for Edublog Awards!
Thanks to FPB Round I Judge Travis Jonker of 100 Scope Notes, today we found out that some of our very own panelist bloggers are part of the group of stellar nominees for the 2009 Edublog Awards, which honor the best education blogs on the web. The "Eddies" have been around for six years, which makes them more venerable than …
Young Adult Fiction Panel
Fiction for young adults is what these bloggers are all about–at least during the Cybils. Check out our panelists and judges for the YA fiction category. Panel Organizer: Jackie Parker, Interactive Reader Panelists (Round I Judges): Sally Kruger, Reading Junky's Reading Roost Jackie Parker (see panel organizer) Tirzah Price, The Compulsive Reader Leila Roy, Bookshelves of Doom Amanda Snow, A …
Non-Fiction Picture Books Panel
Meet our panelists and judges for Non-Fiction Picture Books–a truly diverse crop of writers, readers, librarians and teachers poised to find this year’s best in NFPB and information books. Panel Organizer: Jone MacCulloch, Check It Out Panelists (Round I Judges): Bill and Karen, Literate LivesKara Dean, Not Just For Kids Amanda Goldfuss, ACPL Mock Sibert Jone Rush MacCulloch (see panel …