Today we introduce Anne Boles Levy, Editor of the Cybils blog: Me and my big mouth started this contest last year when I left a smart-alecky comment on Kelly Herold’s blog. I said us blogging upstarts should up and start our own contest. Kelly, being one of these organized types, took me up on it. I began my foray into …
About Eisha Prather
Today we introduce Eisha, our Non-Fiction Picture Books organizer: Hey! I’m Eisha, and I’m the other half of the blogging team behind Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast (you’ve already met Jules). At our blog we review books for all ages, but we tend to emphasize children’s and YA lit. We also feature interviews with authors, illustrators and bloggers; participate in …
About Little Willow
Today we introduce Little Willow, our Forum Moderator and Henchwoman for YA Outreach. Hi there! I’m an actress, singer, and dancer as well as a writer and a bookseller. I review books and interview authors at my lit blog. I specialize in children’s fiction, ranging from juvenile classics to contemporary teen fiction. My blog’s title, Bildungsroman, is the German term …
About Jackie Parker
Today we introduce Jackie Parker, our Young Adult Fiction organizer: I don’t remember playing with dolls as a child. What I do remember is hanging out in hot, musty school libraries as my librarian mother prepared for the school year. I remember helping by spreading out the new catalog cards across a great swath of carpeting and dancing across them …
About Liz B
Today we introduce Liz B., our Middle Grade Fiction organizer: Hi! I’m Liz B, and I blog over at A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy. I write about a mix of things: books, TV, movies, news, but mainly? Books. Mostly young adult, but a little bit of everything. I’m interested in how story is important in our lives, …
About Kelly Fineman
Today we’re introducing Kelly F., our Poetry Organizer: I’m a children’s writer and poet. While I don’t often share my original poetry on my blog, Writing and Ruminating, I regularly post poems and poetry-related information there. I have a poem called "Lawnmowers" published in the Summer Shorts anthology from Blooming Tree Press and a poem appearing in the December 2007 …
About Sarah Stevenson
Today we introduce Sarah, our Graphic Novels organizer: You might be more familiar with my blogging handle, a. fortis. I’m a writer and artist, as well as co-founder (with writer Tanita S. Davis) of the YA literature blogs Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog and ReadingYA: Readers’ Rants, both founded in 2005. I was a member of the Graphic Novels Nominating …
About Julie Danielson
Today we introduce Julie Danielson, our Fiction Picture Books organizer. Julie Danielson, a.k.a. Jules, here. I am co-blogger at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, otherwise known as its abbreviation, "7-Imp," in the kidlitosphere. Eisha and I review books for all ages at 7-Imp, but we are very heavy on children’s lit, and I tend to focus most heavily on posts …
About Jen Robinson
Today we introduce Jen, our Middle Grade and YA Non-Fiction organizer: Although my passion is reading and writing about children’s books, I’m actually an engineer by training, with advanced degrees in Industrial Engineering. I co-own a small software company, where I primarily manage sales, marketing and training. On my frequent business trips, I can usually be found reading children’s and …
An interview with Joyce Sidman
The first-ever winner of a Cybil for Poetry is Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow: Poems by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Beth Krommes. It was selected by the committee based in part on its wonderfully rich language and imagery. The book, a series of riddle poems in pairs, incorporates a variety of poetic forms, ranging from free verse …